IT Solution Architect

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This role is based out our Livermore, CA office. This is not a remote or hybrid opportunity.

Do you enjoy driving technical design and implementation? Are you looking to work with a team working on a robust and scalable Data Integration and API platform in a hybrid cloud environment? Do you enjoy facilitating the evaluations and selection of integration tools? If so, read further!

Below are some day-to-day tasks you would perform in this role:

This role will be responsible for designing IT software solution deliveries. If hired, you will impact how the business continues its digital transformation with tools like Salesforce , Xifin and Five9 . We are looking for someone with expertise in technical solution and integration development in a hybrid cloud environment. This role is responsible for enhancing the quality of IT solutions, analyzing data to inform business decisions, and finding technological solutions to business needs, among other duties.

For large projects with multiple systems, the Solutions architect is responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies working primarily with management and technical specialists across functional disciplines. Participates in the development of the Abbott infrastructure and understands the impact and needs of the applications. Supports the application and technical specialists in the multi-system application architecture and has a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs for the applications involved and the impact upon each other.

• Define strategic IT capability maps describe Commercial and Operations Lead-to-Cash process requirements.

• Design and development of data integration and migration strategies, HL7 / FHIR, EDI, Web services.

• Provide data integration and API solution designs for on-premises and cloud business applications that meet business requirements.

• Perform proof-of-concepts (POC) to prove out solutions and establish a core codebase ready for implementation.

• Produce as-is and to-be application solution architecture for a variety of scenarios to meet business requirements and scale the company.

• Document data flows in relevant segments and ratify data ownership and retention policies.

• Participate in organization-wide project planning activities with project managers to advise on implementation strategies and cross-team dependencies.

• Partner closely with product owners and engineering managers to define roadmaps and sprint planning objectives to meet solution designs.

• Represent the IT organization as the domain expert for all technical solutions including data integration and API reference architecture and ensure alignment across teams.

• Collaborate with the broader architecture community, such as Architectural Review Board (ARB), Security Review Board to provide feedback on strategies and standards.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or similar degree or the equivalent of years of experience in similar role.

• 10+ years or more of experience in IT including gradual career progression into an IT Architecture role similar to this role.

• Relevant experience including 3+ years as Solutions Architect.

Preferred:

• 10+ years in a technology-driven Development and Architecture role.

• 2+ years of hands of experience in Agile methodology.

• 2+ years of experience in any CRM preferably Salesforce Health Cloud/ Xifin/

• 2+ years of experience in integration API design and development Web Services, JSON,

• API integration experience includes HL7, EDI, etc

• Security, compliance, design experience in large enterprise.

• Prior experience with SOX, PCI, and HIPAA compliance

• Insurance claims/Health Care Industry experience

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $130,700.00 – $261,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.