Executive Director, Engineering

🕒 September 15

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $182k - $346k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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AbbVie

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers and delivers innovative medicines and solutions to enhance lives. With a focus on addressing the world's toughest health challenges, AbbVie operates in over 175 countries, providing a wide range of products across areas like immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Committed to scientific innovation, AbbVie invests heavily in research and development, aiming to produce first-in-class medicines. The company also emphasizes workplace diversity, sustainability, and patient support initiatives, ensuring positive impact for both its patients and the broader community.

📋 Description

• Own delivery, execution, and outcomes across multiple engineering teams • Lead and develop engineering managers • Build a high-performing engineering organization through accountability, operating rhythms, talent development, and continuous improvement • Partner with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders on strategy and roadmaps • Oversee backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products • Drive technical and architectural decision-making with architects and senior engineers • Establish and improve engineering processes for planning, estimation, prioritization, execution, dependencies, and releases • Communicate portfolio plans, risks, milestones, status, and outcomes • Promote software development practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness • Oversee production reliability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and response processes • Ensure data quality, security, privacy, governance, and regulatory compliance • Partner on organizational planning, staffing, succession planning, and resource allocation • Coach leaders and teams through organizational change • Monitor industry trends and drive adoption of valuable emerging technologies

🎯 Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including backend and data engineering • 4+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams or functional areas • Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and leadership development • Experience leading complex technical programs across multiple teams • Experience with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js • Experience designing and scaling data APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures • Knowledge of data warehousing, data pipelines, data integration, and data product development • Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and DynamoDB • Experience with AWS, Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Lambda, SQS, and SNS • Experience establishing unit, integration, end-to-end, load, and security testing strategies • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills • Strong operational leadership skills, including incident management, reliability practices, and service ownership • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical judgment and pragmatic execution • Willingness to travel 20% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) • Long-term incentive programs • Remote work option