Director, Architecture & Enablement — Engineering Leadership

Allergan; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, seeks an Engineering Director of Architecture & Enablement to lead senior Engineering Solution Architects. This role shapes architecture across major initiatives, aligns dependencies, and drives technical execution to deliver complex programs with predictable outcomes.

You will influence architecture standards, partner with Product and Program Management, and ensure scalable, reliable platforms behind iconic brands like BOTOX and JUVÉDERM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical leadership roles.
• Significant experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, systems, and stakeholders.
• Experience managing highly senior technical individual contributors, including Staff-level engineers or architects.
• Strong background in solution design, dependency management, technical estimation, and cross-team technical leadership.
• Proven ability to influence engineering managers, technical leaders, and teams without relying on direct delivery ownership.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and engineering delivery practices.
• Experience designing and guiding high-reliability, cloud-based implementations with strong focus on scalability, resilience, performance, and operational excellence.
• Experience with our core technology stack, including AWS, React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of senior Engineering Solution Architects, setting clear expectations and creating a culture of accountability, sound judgment, and high technical impact.
• Oversee end-to-end solution architecture for major cross-team efforts, including technical sequencing, dependency planning, and high-level solution design.
• Guide high-level estimates and level-of-effort assessments in partnership with engineering leaders to improve planning quality and delivery confidence.
• Drive alignment across engineering teams, managers, and stakeholders on assumptions, tradeoffs, implementation approach, risks, and constraints.
• Stay engaged through execution to resolve ambiguity, unblock decisions, and ensure solutions are implemented as intended and remain on track against schedule.
• Serve as a senior technical leader across AA Tech for initiatives that span multiple teams, systems, or domains.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Program Management leaders to strengthen coordination, execution predictability, and technical delivery outcomes.
• Oversee the development of practical architecture standards, guidelines, and reusable patterns that improve consistency, scalability, and maintainability.

Skills

Leadership

Solution architecture

Cross-team leadership

Cloud architecture

AI-driven engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

React

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Job description

Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, seeks an Engineering Director of Architecture & Enablement to lead senior Engineering Solution Architects. This role shapes architecture across major initiatives, aligns dependencies, and drives technical execution to deliver complex programs with predictable outcomes.

You will influence architecture standards, partner with Product and Program Management, and ensure scalable, reliable platforms behind iconic brands like BOTOX and JUVÉDERM.