Director, Data & AI Architecture (Ops & Finance)

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a Director, Data & AI Architect to define and lead the Data & AI architecture strategy for Operations and Finance, aligning with enterprise priorities and business transformation goals.

The role partners with business, technology, security, compliance, and vendor teams to shape target-state architecture, guide investments, and enable high-value solutions across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Proven experience defining roadmaps, target architecture, and modernization investment strategies.
• Experience leading architecture teams, mentoring architects, and scaling architecture practices.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native, lakehouse, event-driven, microservices, API-first, and GenAI application architectures.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, review boards, standards, and operating models.
• Strong ability to influence executives by connecting technology decisions to business value and risk.

Responsibilities

• Own the Operations & Finance Data & AI architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap; align with standards, strategy, compliance, and investment priorities.
• Define and establish the target operating model for Data and AI architecture across Operations and Finance, including governance and accountability.
• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership bench of senior architects and build a scalable architecture community of practice.
• Guide enterprise tooling and partner strategy for data and AI; evaluate vendors and oversee proof-of-concept and due diligence efforts.
• Define architecture patterns for consuming trusted data products, semantic services, knowledge graphs, and retrieval services for scalable AI-powered apps.
• Contribute to financial stewardship for a large-scale architecture portfolio, shaping investment plans and cost discipline.
• Establish architecture standards for Data & AI platform and applications, including MLOps, governance, and security patterns.

Skills

cloud-native

lakehouse

event-driven

microservices

API-first

GenAI

architecture governance

leadership

Education

Bachelors + 10 years

Masters + 9 years

PhD + 5 years

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW

SAP Datasphere

Job description

AbbVie seeks a Director, Data & AI Architect to define and lead the Data & AI architecture strategy for Operations and Finance, aligning with enterprise priorities and business transformation goals.

The role partners with business, technology, security, compliance, and vendor teams to shape target-state architecture, guide investments, and enable high-value solutions across the portfolio.