Director II, Data Engineering - Business Technology Solutions at AbbVie · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Own the Development Data Engineering vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap; align ingestion, curation, integration, and data quality priorities with Information Research, enterprise architecture, business stakeholders, regulatory expectations, and investment priorities.
Define the operating model for Development Data Engineering, including intake and prioritization, design standards, delivery governance, data quality controls, release discipline, production support, decision rights, and accountability across AbbVie engineers, strategic partner contractors, business partners, and platform teams.
Lead and develop a high-performing organization of approximately 15 AbbVie data engineers while providing day-to-day leadership, accountability, and delivery oversight for nearly 100 strategic partner contractors; build engineering capability, talent depth, partner performance discipline, and a culture of quality, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Shape portfolio and investment decisions by translating data engineering tradeoffs into business value, delivery risk, compliance impact, operational resilience, and total cost; influence prioritization across pipeline data platforms, integration capabilities, modernization efforts, partner capacity, and quality improvements.
Provide engineering leadership for major development data initiatives, including platform modernization, transactional data ingestion, data product creation, integration pattern standardization, lineage and metadata foundations, data quality automation, operational monitoring, and simplification of duplicative capabilities.
Design and govern target-state patterns for development data platforms, transactional data pipelines, curated data products, integration services, metadata and semantic layers, master and reference data, data quality controls, observability, access management, and audit-ready delivery in a regulated environment.
Define cross-cutting engineering standards for schema design, metadata management, data lineage, master and reference data, interoperability, API and integration patterns, semantic consistency, security, encryption, access control, resiliency, observability, data quality, and compliance evidence.
Establish and chair engineering governance forums to ensure consistent design, delivery discipline, production readiness, data quality accountability, compliance alignment, disciplined exception management, and scalable reuse across development data initiatives.
Drive data governance, compliance, privacy, and risk management in partnership with Legal, Security, Privacy, and Compliance teams, ensuring architectures support regulated use cases and audit readiness.
Guide enterprise tooling and partner strategy for data engineering activities; evaluate strategic vendors, influence sourcing decisions, and oversee complex proof-of-concept and due diligence efforts tied to long-term capability building.
Represent data engineering architecture strategy in executive forums; communicate options, risks, investment tradeoffs, and transformation implications to senior leadership in business terms.
Contribute to financial stewardship for a large-scale architecture and transformation portfolio, including shaping annual and multi-year investment plans, cost discipline, and value realization expectations.

Director II, Data Engineering - Business Technology Solutions

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Benefits

Company

AbbVie

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