Engineering Manager, Cloud Software Platform Practice

Abbott Laboratories; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health coverage in HIP PPO plan

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Diversity and inclusion recognition

Job summary

Abbott is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Cloud Software Platform Practice, remotely in the U.S. You will coach cloud engineers, drive platform reliability, and collaborate with product and security teams to deliver scalable services powering healthcare professionals and patients.

Role emphasizes inclusive leadership, Go-based platform development, and rapid delivery with long-term platform health. Abbott values innovation, trust, and continuous learning across a global team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in CS/IT or related field.
• 8+ years of related experience; Master’s +6 years acceptable.
• Leadership style grounded in humility, curiosity, accountability and service.
• Experience coordinating engineers across multiple product teams or programs.
• Software engineering experience with cloud-based or distributed systems.
• Ability to coach engineers and foster mentoring across levels.
• Experience designing and maintaining complex asynchronous messaging jobs.
• Experience building scalable, available, maintainable architecture.
• Translating business goals into engineering priorities and plans.
• Balance delivery speed with reliability, security, and long-term platform health.
• Comfort with asynchronous work in a distributed team.
• Strong written, verbal and listening communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of cloud software engineers with coaching and growth opportunities.
• Encourage a team-first mindset and accountability for outcomes.
• Foster an inclusive, psychologically safe environment for collaboration and learning.
• Support hiring, onboarding, succession planning and knowledge sharing.
• Learn and improve Go-based healthcare platform services.
• Design and implement cloud services and components using Go.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global platform.
• Collaborate on APIs to share and use medical data across partners.
• Coordinate with Security to design secure solutions.
• Ensure platform performance, reliability and uptime with high engineering standards.
• Contribute to architectural decisions with leadership teams.
• Identify capacity, risk, dependencies and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Align priorities with product owners for timely delivery.
• Invest in quality, security, observability and reducing technical debt.
• Encourage experimentation based on customer value and risk.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud software

Go language

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Architectural design

Communication

Problem solving

Agile development

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Master’s degree (advantage)

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Descritivo de Cargo

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Opportunity This Engineering Manager, Cloud Software Platform Practice position can work out remotely within the U.S. The Engineering Manager, Cloud Software Platform Practice leads and develops a team of cloud software engineers responsible for the platform capabilities that power our digital ecosystem for healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and caregivers. The Cloud Platform Practice delivers and evolves cloud-based services, APIs, medical data platforms, messaging and event-streaming technologies, and other shared platform capabilities. Partnering with the Cloud Platform Practice Owner, Product leaders, and technical stakeholders, this role translates strategy into execution, supports delivery commitments, and fosters a culture of trust, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning. The Engineering Manager provides coaching, removes barriers, and helps engineers grow while maintaining strong engineering standards and platform reliability. Reporting to the Cloud Platform Practice Owner, the Engineering Manager is accountable for building a high-performing team, balancing delivery with long-term platform sustainability, and driving reliable, secure, and scalable solutions that create business and customer value.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead and develop a team of cloud software engineers by providing coaching, mentoring, feedback, and growth opportunities aligned with organizational objectives.
• Model team-first leadership by empowering engineers to lead initiatives, recognizing contributions, and fostering accountability for team outcomes.
• Create an inclusive and psychologically safe environment that encourages collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and respectful challenge.
• Collaborate with the practice to support hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and knowledge-sharing activities that strengthen organizational capability.
• Learn and improve our existing Go-based healthcare platforms.
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.
• Collaborate directly with Information Security teams to design and implement secure solutions.
• Ensure platform performance, scalability, reliability, and uptime while maintaining high standards of engineering quality.
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with Architecture and Platform leadership.
• Support delivery commitments by identifying capacity constraints, risks, dependencies, and execution challenges, while communicating progress and tradeoffs to stakeholders.
• Partner with technical product owners and business stakeholders to align priorities, remove barriers, and ensure successful delivery of platform capabilities.
• Balance near‑term delivery goals with long-term platform sustainability through investments in quality, security, observability, operability, performance, and technical debt reduction.
• Encourage pragmatic experimentation and innovation by evaluating new ideas based on customer needs, technical evidence, risk, and expected value.
• Build trusted relationships across Product, Security, Quality, Regulatory, and other business and technology teams.
• Lead technical planning, design reviews, and engineering best practices across the Cloud Software Platform Practice.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, making recommendations that support innovation and business objectives.
• Support company initiatives and comply with FDA and other applicable global regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8 years of related experience or a Master’s degree and 6+ years of related experience.
• A leadership approach grounded in humility, curiosity, accountability, and service to the team.
• Experience supporting engineers who work across multiple product teams, programs, or matrixed organizational structures.
• Software engineering experience with cloud-based or distributed systems and sufficient technical fluency to understand context, ask effective questions, and participate credibly in architecture, risk, and delivery discussions.
• Ability to coach engineers in problem‑solving, judgment, and professional growth while fostering a shared mentoring model in which Principal, Staff, Senior, and other engineers contribute their technical expertise.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
• Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor.
• Experience translating business and product goals into engineering priorities, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with reliability, security, quality, maintainability, and long‑term platform health.
• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Strong written, verbal, and listening skills, including the ability to communicate technical choices, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams that build production software in Go or another modern cloud‑native language.
• Experience with public‑cloud platforms and managed database, messaging, event‑streaming, API, and service technologies.
• Experience treating an internal platform as a product, with a focus on developer experience, adoption, reliability, and measurable value.
• Experience with agile product development and modern software engineering practices, including automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and secure development.
• Experience in digital health, medical devices, or another regulated industry.
• Experience developing software products subject to FDA or comparable regulatory requirements.

Família de Cargo Product Development Divisão ADC Diabetes Care

Localidade United States of America : Remote

Localidades Adicionais

Turno de Trabalho Standard

Viagem Yes, 5 % of the Time

Vigilância médica Not Applicable

Atividades de trabalho significativas Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

The base pay for this position is $99,300.00 – $198,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

A Abbott significa o poder da saúde. Por mais de 125 anos, a Abbott tem ajudado as pessoas a alcançar seu potencial — porque uma saúde melhor permite que indivíduos e comunidades vivam melhor. Com uma rede global e diversificada, que serve clientes em mais de 160 países, criamos novas soluções — em todo o espectro da saúde, em todo o mundo, para todas as fases da vida. Seja através da próxima geração de equipamentos de diagnóstico, dispositivos médicos para estilos de vida em transformação, nutrição baseada em ciência, ou novas reformulações, estamos desenvolvendo tecnologias mais inovadoras e revolucionárias na área da saúde para que indivíduos vivam melhor e com mais saúde. Os colaboradores da Abbott vêm trabalhar todos os dias com energia, entusiasmo e comprometimento com o intuito de promover a saúde e o bem-estar de milhões de pessoas. Eles superam os limites para ajudar a gerenciar e tratar alguns dos maiores desafios de saúde da vida.

Convidamos você a explorar as oportunidades na Abbott, a ver se seus talentos e aspirações de carreira podem se encaixar com as nossas vagas. A Abbott é uma empresa que oferece oportunidades iguais e acolhe e incentiva a diversidade em nossa força de trabalho.

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