Engineering Architecture & Enablement Director

AbbVie; California (MO); Vor Ort; USD 190.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

PTO

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k)

Zusammenfassung

AbbVie: Allergan Aesthetics is seeking an Engineering Director, Architecture & Enablement to lead a team of staff-level and senior Engineering Solution Architects. You will shape architecture across major initiatives, map dependencies, and guide estimation and delivery quality while reducing risk and improving execution.

You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, and Program Management to drive consistent standards, scalable patterns, and reliable outcomes across cloud-based platforms powering a

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical leadership roles.
• 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 AI-driven engineering implementation, including use of tools such as Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development capabilities to improve engineering workflows and delivery outcomes
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Aufgaben

• 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.
• Deploy the architecture team to the organization’s highest-priority and most complex initiatives, ensuring the right technical leadership is applied where it matters most.
• 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.
• Establish lightweight architecture review and alignment mechanisms that support speed and execution without adding unnecessary process.
• Serve as a member of the AA Tech Technology Leadership Team, contributing to broader technology planning, organizational direction, and leadership decision-making.

Kenntnisse

Solution architecture

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Strategic thinking

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

React

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Snowflake

Jobbeschreibung

AbbVie: Allergan Aesthetics is seeking an Engineering Director, Architecture & Enablement to lead a team of staff-level and senior Engineering Solution Architects. You will shape architecture across major initiatives, map dependencies, and guide estimation and delivery quality while reducing risk and improving execution.

You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, and Program Management to drive consistent standards, scalable patterns, and reliable outcomes across cloud-based platforms powering a