Director, Data & AI Architecture (Ops & Finance)

BioSpace

North Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

15 hours ago
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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.

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