Connected Factory Engineer

About the role

The Connected Factory Engineering team at AbbVie is responsible for the technical stewardship of key integration capabilities and platforms across Manufacturing Operations. This includes working on Ignition, OSI PI, Kepware, HighByte, AWS Cloud Services, and other platforms to support APIs, IT/OT convergence, MQTT, data historization, and event-driven services.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing solutions and processes and identify areas for optimization.
• Gather requirements from business users and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design and engineer technical capabilities to meet business needs.
• Develop system documentation, including user/admin manuals, architecture drawings, and technical specifications.
• Build and execute test protocols to ensure solutions are functioning to specification.
• Author deployment instructions and implement them across various platforms supported by the team.
• Intake, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues as they are reported or as alerts are received.
• Ensure that systems operate effectively, securely, and comply with relevant regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions are integrated and scalable.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies in the field.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field plus 2 years of experience as a Developer, Systems Analyst/Admin, Engineer/Integrator, or similar role; or Master's degree with 0 experience.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and consultative skills and the ability to work efficiently with clients and other IT management and staff.
• A high focus on deliverables and detail-oriented.
• Exceptional teamwork skills.
• 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.

Preferred

• Experience working with Ignition, Kepware, OSI PI, HighByte, and/or AWS Cloud Services.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and their capabilities.

Pay, Benefits, and Schedule

The pay range for this role is $65,500 - $125,500 USD annually. The role is primarily site- or office-based but can occasionally be performed remotely. Employees who are site/office-based and can occasionally perform their role virtually work both in the office and remotely, following the policies and regulations in place at their location. US Employees must be in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Three days in the office is the minimum; some individuals or teams may require more in-office days due to meetings, business/project needs or their role.