AI Architect

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. in North Chicago, IL seeks a principal architect for AI-enabled Finance solutions. You will design secure, scalable AWS-based systems to enhance financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and operations.

Translate Finance needs into end-to-end architectures for generative and agentic AI, govern data and AI lifecycles, and guide delivery teams from discovery through production while upholding security and control standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related experience; or Master’s with 6+ years; or PhD with 2+ years.
• Experience in application development, solution architecture for AI applications.
• Demonstrated experience designing or implementing AWS-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of generative and agentic AI capabilities and lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution design for generative and agentic AI on AWS.
• Identify and deliver high-value use cases with Finance stakeholders.
• Design secure AWS solutions addressing data ingestion, storage, analytics, AI/ML, and deployment.
• Establish data and AI governance with lineage and controls.
• Apply responsible-AI practices, model lifecycle, monitoring, and explainability.
• Ensure security, privacy, and internal-control requirements.
• Guide implementation decisions and collaborate with delivery teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor architects and delivery staff.
• Promote reliable operations and continuous improvement.
• Communicate architectural choices to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Skills

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Cloud architecture

Data governance

Security and controls

Enterprise architecture

Technical leadership

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

AWS

Cloud platforms

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

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. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Serve as the principal architect for AI-enabled solutions supporting Finance, designing and delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable systems on AWS. Translate finance business needs into solution architectures that improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and operations. Apply expertise in generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, data architecture, cloud platforms, and software engineering to address significant business problems. Evaluate emerging technologies and integrate them where they provide measurable value, while ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, financial controls, data governance, security, and responsible-AI expectations. Act as a technical leader across Finance and IT, guiding architecture decisions and delivery teams from discovery through production and ongoing improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and solution design. Translate Finance requirements into end-to-end architectures for generative and agentic AI, machine learning, analytics, data, and software solutions on AWS, including integrations with enterprise platforms and existing finance systems.
• Identify and deliver high-value use cases. Partner with Finance stakeholders to assess opportunities such as forecasting, planning, reporting, reconciliation, close-process support, and document or transaction analysis; define solution scope, success measures, and implementation approaches.
• Design and implement secure AWS solutions. Select and apply appropriate AWS services and architectural patterns for data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, AI/ML, application development, and deployment. Address scalability, resilience, performance, cost, and operational support.
• Establish data and AI governance. Ensure solutions use trusted, well-managed financial data, with appropriate lineage, quality controls, access management, retention, and auditability. Incorporate human review and escalation where warranted by the use case.
• Apply responsible-AI and model-lifecycle practices. Guide model and generative-AI evaluation, validation, monitoring, explainability, versioning, and change management in accordance with applicable enterprise standards and risk controls. Identify limitations and risks, including inaccurate outputs, bias, privacy exposure, and model drift.
• Protect financial information and controls. Incorporate security, privacy, segregation of duties, and applicable financial reporting and internal-control requirements into solution designs. Work with Finance, Security, Risk, Compliance, and other control partners to address requirements and support audits.
• Guide implementation and technical decisions. Evaluate build, reuse, and purchase options; recommend solutions based on business value, technical fit, risk, and total cost of ownership. Contribute to prototypes or code where needed to validate architecture and resolve key technical challenges.
• Advise stakeholders and delivery teams. Provide technical consultation to Finance and IT leaders, product owners, engineers, data teams, and operations partners. Communicate architectural choices, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Promote reliable operations and continuous improvement. Define production-readiness expectations, including testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, documentation, and ongoing cost and performance optimization. Incorporate user feedback and operational lessons into solution improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and uphold standards. Work autonomously with minimal direction, mentor architects and delivery team members as appropriate, and promote adherence to enterprise architecture, software-development, cloud, data, security, conduct, and other applicable corporate policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years of relevant experience; Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience; or PhD with 2 years of experience.
• Respective years of experience in application development, solution architecture for AI applications.
• In-depth knowledge of the systems development life cycle, solution architecture, and the design and delivery of production-grade cloud, data, and analytics solutions for generative and agentic AI and ML applications.
• Demonstrated experience designing or implementing solutions on AWS, including appropriate services and patterns for data management, security, integration, deployment, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Strong understanding of generative and agentic AI capabilities, limitations, and lifecycle practices, including evaluation, validation, monitoring, and responsible use.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, access control, auditability, and financial controls, with the ability to incorporate applicable requirements into solution designs.
• Proven track record of delivering creative technology solutions that advance business outcomes, with experience evaluating alternatives and balancing value, risk, feasibility, and total cost of ownership.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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