Senior Engineer, Quality Systems (QC Labs)

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.

 This role is responsible for working collaboratively with QA Labs Business Owners, Manufacturing Sites and the broader BTS organization to conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, and technology solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems for Quality Labs processes.  A successful candidate will develop deep understanding of lab processes to investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in Product Release Testing​, Stability Study Operations, and Lab Inventory Management for all AbbVie QC labs.  

Responsibilities: 

• Conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, or technology solutions by studying system flows, data usage, and quality labs process to solve problem areas or unmet business value.  The candidate is expected to work effectively across various IT shared services teams, manufacturing site representatives, and QA Labs business stakeholders. 

• Ensures data & technology roadmaps for portfolio of labs solutions enables business objectives while optimizing the total cost of ownership for IT solutions and ensuring compliance to applicable regulations 

• Collaborates with capabilities teams and solution vendors to minimize production issues, ensure continuity of business solutions, assure alignment with architecture & technology standards, and ability of product to scale to meet AbbVie requirements. 

• Defines Data, Reporting and AI strategies for AbbVie QC Labs and outlines value-based roadmaps to enable business insights and improve efficiency. 

• Identify current and emerging business needs and evaluate technology solutions to balance short-term and long-term objectives.  Understands both data and technology capabilities already in use across AbbVie and recommend appropriate solutions. 

• Analyzes and resolves technical problems using analytical problem-solving methods/techniques and associated tools/devices. 

• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments. 

• Highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor. Accountable for total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control. 

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years’ experience including business analysis, project management, portfolio management, and strategic planning; Master’s Degree with 5 years’ experience; PhD with 0 years’ experience.
• Excellent analytical, judgment and consultative capabilities and communication skills 
• Excellent communications and influencing skills with strong ability to balance differing stakeholder interests through sound analysis and persuasion. 
• Must have significant experience configuring and deploying Lab Systems (LIMS, ELN, CDS, Inventory, Asset Management) and system integrations experience.
• Detailed understanding of relational databases, reporting databases, possesses SQL skills and coding skills (eg. Python, C#, json)
• Proven project leadership and team leadership skills 

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 ofthis posting based 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 or less 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 anybonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleand absolute discretion unless and until paid and 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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