Solution Architect

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Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Job Description

The Solution Architect's primary role is to design, build, and deliver solutions that effectively address the business requirements. This includes working with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, designing and developing solutions, and implementing and maintaining those solutions. The role places a significant focus on Salesforce while also exploring emerging technologies. Additionally, the Solution Architect plays a vital role in mentoring and coaching other senior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Work with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and develop solutions that meet those requirements.
• Designing and implementing scalable, secure, and efficient applications on Salesforce.
• Hands-on architect comfortable working with engineers at code/detailed design level.
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API-based, and Cloud environments.
• Performing architecture assessments to identify areas for improvement and potential bottlenecks.
• Develop salesforce architectural standards for business applications.
• Contributing to the long-term roadmap for the platform, ensuring it can evolve and adapt to future requirements.
• Ability to create architecture and design recommendations while leading working sessions with multiple stakeholders who may have conflicting requirements.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with business users, leaders, BRMs and Portfolio Managers to define strategies that maximize business value.
• Partner with the enterprise architecture team to ensure architecture alignment.
• Drive Standardization, maintenance, and use of coding libraries such as UI frameworks, integration patterns to be used in conjunction with Salesforce.
• Evaluating Fit for purpose to drive Build vs. Buy decisions suitability to custom application development for new business demand and/or platform affinity.
• Review and evaluate feasibility of application development proposals to ensure adherence to AbbVie standards.
• Proposing application optimization for externally developed applications.
• Evaluating emerging application development standards, technologies, and practices to integrate into internal development standards and practices.
• Escalation points for intractable engineering problems encountered by application development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree 7 years of experience, Masters Degree 6 years of experience, PhD 2 years of experience in IT.
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform features, including integration patterns, data model and best practices.
• Experience with Salesforce customization and optimization.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of application architecture for GxP applications, Cloud native solutions (IaaS / PaaS), Integrations (using APIs).
• Must be competent to work at the highest level of all phases of application program/system design and implementation.
• Researches and maintains knowledge in emerging technologies and possible application to the business.
• Handles complex issues and problems.
• Requires strong verbal and written communications skills, analytical ability, judgment, as well as the ability to work effectively at all levels with both internal and external organizations.
• Experienced in DevOps methodologies.
• Possession of architect-level certifications is advantageous.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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