Director, Data & AI Architect, Operations and Finance

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. The company strives to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience, as well as products and services in the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information, visit www.abbvie.com.

Role Overview

The Director, Data & AI Architect, Operations and Finance will define and lead the overall Data & AI architecture strategy for Operations and Finance, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and business transformation goals. This role provides senior architecture leadership across Data & AI technology capabilities, translating complex business needs into scalable, secure, and reusable technology patterns. The leader partners closely with business, technology, enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and vendor teams to shape target‑state architecture, guide investment decisions, and enable trusted, high‑value Data & AI solutions across the Operations and Finance portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Operations & Finance Data & AI architecture vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap; align architecture with enterprise standards, business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology investment priorities.
• Define and establish the target operating model for Data and AI architecture across Operations and Finance, including governance, decision rights, architecture review mechanisms, reusable patterns, and clear accountability.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing bench of senior architects; build organizational capability, succession depth, and a scalable architecture community of practice in collaboration with enterprise architects.
• Guide enterprise tooling and partner strategy for data and AI; evaluate strategic vendors, influence sourcing decisions, and oversee complex proof‑of‑concept and due‑diligence efforts tied to long‑term capability building.
• Define architecture patterns for consuming trusted enterprise data products, semantic services, knowledge graphs, and retrieval services to enable scalable AI‑powered business applications.
• Contribute to financial stewardship for a large‑scale architecture and transformation portfolio, shaping annual and multi‑year investment plans, cost discipline, and value realization expectations.
• Establish architecture standards for Data & AI platforms and applications, including data platform, data products, MLOps, agentic orchestration, multi‑agent collaboration, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, memory management, runtime observability, guardrails, and responsible AI patterns.
• Define runtime architecture standards for scalability, resiliency, performance, monitoring, telemetry, observability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness of Data & AI applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree + 10 years, Master’s degree + 9 years, or PhD + 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience defining roadmaps, target architecture, and modernization investment strategies.
• Experience leading architecture teams, mentoring architects, and scaling architecture practices.
• Deep expertise in cloud‑native, lakehouse, event‑driven, microservices, API‑first, and GenAI application architectures.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, review boards, standards, and operating models.
• Strong ability to influence executives by connecting technology decisions to business value and risk.
• Preferred: Experience with SAP platforms (S/4HANA, BW, BPC, Datasphere) and SAP‑integrated Data & AI solutions.
• Preferred: Knowledge of UI/UX patterns for Data & AI applications, including agent‑assisted experiences.
• Preferred: Familiarity with model selection, fine‑tuning, optimization, and cost‑performance trade‑offs.
• Preferred: Experience in regulated industries with strong security, compliance, and quality requirements.

Compensation

The compensation range described is the range of possible base‑pay compensation that AbbVie believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of posting, based on the job grade. Individual compensation will depend on factors such as geographic location and may be adjusted in the future.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan for eligible employees
• Eligibility to participate in long‑term incentive programs
• Comprehensive benefits package