Head of Enterprise Architecture

Abbott; Alabama; On-site; USD 129,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a senior leader to head Enterprise Architecture for cancer diagnostics, defining future-state platforms and roadmaps across product teams. You will chair the Architecture Review Board, ensure adherence to standards, and drive strategic technology decisions with business impact.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years IT experience and 5+ years in architecture leadership, with strong communication skills and ability to influence across matrixed teams. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, MIS, or related field.
• 10+ years of information technology experience with increasing responsibilities.
• 5+ years in an architecture or engineering leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture organization and set architectural vision, standards and governance.
• Head Architecture Review Board and guide investment prioritization.
• Grow architecture community and mentor staff to deliver business-focused technology.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Overview

Abbott Cancer Diagnostics is driven by a clear purpose: to help eradicate cancer by preventing it, detecting it earlier, and guiding personalized treatment. Delivering on that purpose at enterprise scale depends on a strong technology foundation, and we are seeking aHead of Enterprise Architecture (known internally as Sr Manager, Enterprise Architecture)to guide the software ecosystem that powers our cancer diagnostics. Reporting into the IT Software Engineering function, this leader sets the architectural vision, standards, and governance that keep our platforms scalable, secure, and positioned for future growth, ensuring the systems behind our diagnostics operate reliably and at the level of performance the business requires. Working closely with business and IT leadership, the Head of Enterprise Architecture defines the future-state platform, establishes the roadmaps to achieve it, and embeds architectural thinking across product teams to advance modern patterns and standards.

The role leads and develops a team of architects, aligning solutions, application, and technology around common standards, disciplined decision-making, and continuous improvement. As chair of the Architecture Review Board, this leader brings rigor and consistency to the decisions that shape our technical direction and serves as a critical partner in the IT Program Intake process, helping stakeholders evaluate options, risks, and trade-offs to prioritize investment effectively. Working closely with business and IT leadership, the Head of Enterprise Architecture defines the future-state platform, establishes the roadmaps to achieve it, and embeds architectural thinking across product teams to advance modern patterns and standards.

The ideal candidate brings substantial technical depth, typically 10+ years in IT and 5+ years in an architecture or engineering leadership role, along with the business acumen to connect technology decisions to measurable outcomes and the executive presence to advise senior leaders. Strong collaboration, influencing, and communication skills are essential in a matrixed, cross-functional environment. This is an opportunity to apply enterprise architecture leadership to work that matters, supporting a mission with meaningful impact for patients and the broader fight against cancer. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Establish the mission and vision of the Enterprise Architecture organization to foster a business-oriented culture and mindset driven by continual innovation and improvement techniques.
• Develop and control the annual operating expenditure and capital expenditure budgets for Enterprise Architecture to ensure that it’s consistent with the overall strategic objectives of IT and the enterprise and remains within plan.
• Build, guide and motivate the Enterprise Architecture organization through coaching and mentoring to become a creative, collaborative and business outcomes focused technology team.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.
• Define the future-state technology platform needed to support new business models and services and establish the strategic technology roadmaps.
• Refine and extend communication plans for architecture at the enterprise level.
• Instill architectural thinking into product teams and provide mentoring and guidance; challenge the status quo and promote modern technologies and architectural patterns.
• Advise senior leaders on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities.
• Grow the architecture community, bringing together solution/application/technology architects from the engineering teams, with the goal of knowledge sharing, technology standardization, decision making and continuous improvement.
• Maintain a strong business acumen and ability to translate technology to potential business impacts.
• Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
• Communicategoals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
• Motivateandinspireemployees to do their best work through coaching.
• Maintainmorale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong customer focus and executive presence.
• Demonstrate a high degree of cross-functional agility using outstanding influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational and follow up skills with strong attention to detail.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability and means to travel between local Abbott Cancer Diagnostics locations.
• Ability to travel 15% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or field as outlined in the essential duties; or High School Diploma/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of information technology experience or with increasing levels of responsibility for delivering transformative technology solutions and business capabilities.
• 5+ years of experience in an architecture role or equivalent (e.g. engineering leader).
• Demonstrated ability to get to the essence of a new concepts quickly.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree.
• Experience delivering innovative technology solutions or business capabilities in the life sciences or pharma industries.
• Experience in supply chain/logistics.
• Experience in physician or patient customer experience initiatives.

The base pay for this position is

$129,300.00 – $258,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:

ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

LOCATION:

United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 15 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

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)

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