Global Director of Systems & Software Engineering

Thornton Tomasetti; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 149,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

HIP medical coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefit

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a transformational engineering executive to lead global systems, software, security, cloud, data, DevOps, and UX for the AlinIQ preanalytics portfolio, including Indexor. You will define the technology strategy for next‑gen pre-analytic automation to optimize specimen flow, throughput, and clinical operations.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Regulatory, Operations, and Clinical groups to deliver an integrated software and automation ecosystem linking track

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Fifteen+ years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience across enterprise hardware, embedded, and software platforms, architecture, and product development.
• Ten+ years leading large global engineering organizations across software, systems, architecture, cybersecurity, cloud ops, DevOps, quality engineering, and platform engineering.
• Five+ years with onshore/offshore development teams in outcomes-based partnerships.
• Experience delivering complex hardware-software integrated systems in diagnostics, healthcare, or regulated industries.
• Expertise in RFID, barcode, Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, GPS technologies.
• Proven experience with client-server, microservices, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and cloud-native SaaS architectures.
• Strong background in legacy modernization, digital transformation, platform consolidation, and cloud migration.
• Experience with SQL/No-SQL databases and analytics environments.
• Knowledge of Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, IaC, CI/CD, automated testing, and release automation.
• Experience with secure SDLC practices including threat modeling and cybersecurity governance.
• Experience protecting PHI/PII and complying with privacy regulations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term technology strategy and architecture roadmap for the preanalytics portfolio.
• Lead modernization spanning legacy platforms, edge, hybrid architectures, and cloud-native SaaS offerings.
• Drive firmware, embedded and user-facing software, systems, cloud, cybersecurity, data and platform engineering across distributed teams.
• Oversee development of workflow orchestration, specimen routing, automation control, robotics integration, telemetry, analytics, and interoperability.
• Lead DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, SRE, and software lifecycle management practices.
• Advance AI/ML, digital twins, and intelligent automation to improve throughput and efficiency.
• Ensure secure handling of PHI/PII and health data through secure-by-design practices.

Skills

Leadership

Global teams

Enterprise software

Cloud architectures

Security engineering

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master’s degree or PhD in related discipline

Tools

HL7

FHIR

API-driven interoperability

SQL/No-SQL

Job description

Abbott is seeking a transformational engineering executive to lead global systems, software, security, cloud, data, DevOps, and UX for the AlinIQ preanalytics portfolio, including Indexor. You will define the technology strategy for next‑gen pre-analytic automation to optimize specimen flow, throughput, and clinical operations.

You will collaborate with Product Management, Regulatory, Operations, and Clinical groups to deliver an integrated software and automation ecosystem linking track