
IT Application Architect
Abbott
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Waukegan • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $111,300 - $222,700 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudMicroservicesSFDC
About the role
- Lead technical projects across multiple product teams to architect, design, build, and scale next-generation technology platforms.
- Establish and implement contemporary solution architectures that adapt to changing industry and market environments to support Abbott’s digital transformation.
- Translate business requirements into detailed systems, application, and integration designs for large, complex IT solutions.
- Collaborate with Business and IT leaders to address digital business needs, use cases, and requirements.
- Review and approve Architecture Design Documents, Software Design Documents (SDD), and Integration Design Documents.
- Conduct code reviews, resolve code conflicts from parallel development, and ensure adherence to coding standards.
- Evaluate and recommend scalable, secure, and compliant architectural solutions, ensuring alignment with Salesforce best practices, multi-org strategy, and Abbott’s enterprise architecture standards.
- Support impact analysis for new features, integrations, and platform upgrades.
- Serve as the technical expert by researching, evaluating, and implementing leading-edge technology platforms.
- Influence and establish best engineering practices through sound design decisions, processes, and tools.
- Provide technical leadership in architecture, integration hubs, technical trade-off analysis, and best practices adoption.
- Drive continuous technology and process improvement initiatives, including governance of technology platforms.
- Balance and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously.
- Utilize Agile software development methodology (preferred).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree/ master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in architecting enterprise solution landscapes especially in Salesforce, web, mobile, and connected eco systems.
- Experience or familiarity with technologies and best practices in areas not limited to: Customer experience, CRM, marketing/sales automation, web content management, mobile solutions, social engagement preferred.
- Excellent track record in delivering complex and cross functional programs.
- A strong background in technical design / architecture.
- A solid understanding contemporary design patterns/practices including utilizing GenAI capabilities to drive business outcomes.
- Prior experience developing or working with Cloud-based technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Salesforce.com is highly desired.
- Strong hands-on experience in Salesforce development, and deployment of highly scalable APIs, Apex Classes, Custom codes.
- Expertise with modern technology stacks, API strategies, microservices, public cloud and programming languages preferred.
Benefits
- 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 a 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SalesforceAPI developmentApexCloud technologiesGenAI capabilitiesmicroservicesAgile methodologyarchitecture designintegration designcoding standards
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationproject managementproblem-solvinginfluencecommunicationprioritizationadaptabilitygovernancecontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreeMaster's Degree