Director, BTS Data Platforms

About the role

This role leads the development of technology strategies supporting business goals, owning the enterprise data platform for analytics and AI. It influences more than one technology and business domain, builds partnerships with senior leaders, and drives comprehensive data platform solutions addressing prioritized business problems and innovation needs.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Influence: Works across multiple business and technology to develop a 2–3-year strategy for the data platform – ingest, lakehouse and compute. Develops, adapts, and executes strategies to achieve key objectives.
• Process Improvement and Optimization: Identifies and implements process and/or technology improvements, including MLOps / LLMOps and platform reliability, observability, and cost.
• Data Platform: Accountable for the enterprise data platform – ingest, lakehouse and compute, MLOps / LLMOps, and reliability, observability, and cost; builds scalable, highly available pipelines on hybrid cloud and manages platform spend.
• People Management: Responsible for managing a team(s) of senior managers and directors within multiple business and/or technology domains.
• Impact: Make decisions that affect financial, employee, and/or public relations aspects of AbbVie.
• Resource Management: Develops and manages resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domain.
• Liaison and Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leadership and vice presidents.
• Culture: Demonstrates AbbVie’s Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes, including an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Manages performance, provides feedback, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience.
• Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall AbbVie goals.
• Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing, and inspiring team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing teams of at least 15 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors, and managed service providers.
• Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to all levels of the organization, including C-Suite.
• Thought leader in data platform engineering, lakehouse architecture, and MLOps / LLMOps across multiple technology and/or business domains.
• Experience managing a budget of at least $15 million.
• Hands-on expertise with large-scale lakehouse and cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS) and data pipeline engineering.

Preferred

• Master’s degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred.

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 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 long-term incentive programs.