Architect, Technology II

Location: North Chicago, IL, us

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Conceive, design, engineer, and implement infrastructure and platform architecture solutions that solve complex scientific and business problems at enterprise scale. This role is intended for architects who have operated across both core infrastructure and cloud platforms, translating hands-on experience from challenging modernization programs into resilient, forward-looking infrastructure designs. The Infrastructure Architect is expected to evaluate and integrate state-of-the-art infrastructure, cloud, networking, and platform technologies to elevate AbbVie’s infrastructure capabilities, enabling scalability, security, compliance, and operational efficiency across multiple business areas. While aligned to a primary architecture domain, this role requires broad platform fluency and the ability to reason across infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and security boundaries. 

Responsibilities 

• Function as a hands-on infrastructure and platform architect, contributing deep solution designs across cloud and core infrastructure platforms while maintaining awareness of enterprise standards and roadmaps. 

• Design and evolve infrastructure architectures spanning compute, storage, networking, cloud services, and foundational platform services. 

• Apply modern architecture practices to translate requirements into infrastructure roadmaps, reference architectures, and implementation guidance. 

• Partner with application, data, security, and platform teams to ensure solutions are integrated and operable. 

• Evaluate emerging infrastructure and cloud technologies for relevance to AbbVie’s strategy. 

• Navigate complex legacy and hybrid environments with sound judgment. 

• Contribute to architecture reviews and governance forums. 

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to delivery teams. 

• Shape productive relationships with vendors and partners. 

• Ensure adherence to corporate standards including GxP, security, and lifecycle management. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of experience; Master’s with 7 years; or PhD with 3 years of experience. 

• Demonstrated experience across both cloud platforms and traditional core infrastructure. 

• Strong grounding in modern infrastructure architecture practices. 

• Ability to translate strategies and roadmaps into actionable designs. 

• Experience in complex modernization programs. 

• Strong collaboration and communication skills. 

• Understanding of architecture governance and standards. 

• Continuous learning mindset. 

• AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Computing Platform.

Additional Information

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

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this postingbased on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more orless than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paidand may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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