Director of Development Data Engineering

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a senior leader for the Data Engineering team within the Information Research organization. This role oversees ingestion, curation, integration, quality, and delivery of transactional data supporting AbbVie's drug development pipeline from trials to medical affairs.

The leader will guide ~15 AbbVie engineers and ~100 contractors, driving governance, platform modernization, and data product strategy to enable trusted, governed data for analytics and decision-making across R&D.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering or related field with 12+ years of experience.
• Proven success building and leading high performing teams.
• Strong experience shaping roadmaps and target-state architectures.
• Proven success designing data architectures including data products, feature stores, monitoring, and governance in regulated environments.
• Ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders by translating complex technical choices into business value, risk, and financial implications.
• Experience establishing enterprise governance mechanisms, architecture review processes, standards adoption models, and operating rhythms across diverse teams.
• Strong financial and strategic acumen, including portfolio prioritization and vendor strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own the Development Data Engineering vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap; align priorities with stakeholders.
• Define the operating model for Development Data Engineering, including governance and release discipline.
• Lead ~15 AbbVie data engineers and ~100 contractors; build capability and governance.
• Shape portfolio and investment decisions by translating data tradeoffs into business value and risk.
• Provide engineering leadership for major development data initiatives including platform modernization and data quality.
• Design and govern target-state patterns for development data platforms, data pipelines, and metadata foundations.
• Establish and chair engineering governance forums to ensure design and production readiness.
• Drive data governance, compliance, privacy, and risk management in partnership with Legal/Security/Compliance.

Skills

Team leadership

Roadmap development

Data architecture

Regulatory compliance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

AbbVie is seeking a senior leader for the Data Engineering team within the Information Research organization. This role oversees ingestion, curation, integration, quality, and delivery of transactional data supporting AbbVie's drug development pipeline from trials to medical affairs.

The leader will guide ~15 AbbVie engineers and ~100 contractors, driving governance, platform modernization, and data product strategy to enable trusted, governed data for analytics and decision-making across R&D.