Principal Software Engineer- Architect

Abbott Laboratories; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 111,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Software Engineer- Architect to lead software architecture and design for innovative healthcare solutions. In this role, you'll apply your advanced engineering knowledge to complex assignments, guiding the development of new principles and concepts. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to impactful projects that enhance patient care globally. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will drive technological advancements and improve lives. If you're ready to make a difference in healthcare technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Free medical coverage

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development opportunities

Recognition as a great workplace

Diversity initiatives

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Expertise in software architecture and design.
• Experience in leading technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead software architecture and design for complex systems.
• Define software design architecture and integration strategies.
• Provide technical leadership in feature definition and requirements.

Skills

Multithreaded applications

Test-driven methodologies

Continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD)

Design patterns

Embedded Development

Data analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

B.S. in Engineering or closely related STEM field

Master’s degree

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

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

Our location in Irving, TX currently has an opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer- Architect. The Principal Software Engineer- Architect will be responsible in applying advanced engineering knowledge to complete complex assignments, who leads software architecture and the design of subsystems and contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.

What You’ll Work On

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency in the complete software development process; leads and is accountable for the software architecture and interfaces for all features of a subsystem.
• Defines software design architecture for a system, identifying features, components and their internal and external interactions.
• Defines system level design and technology specific implementation patterns drawing upon industry best practices.
• Defines third party software component/integration strategy.
• Defines design patterns, coding styles, software development environment, unit testing environment, integration testing environment and performance testing environment for all features in a subsystem.
• Defines the future state roadmap of CI/CD, third party component management, and cybersecurity design for a subsystem.
• Defines system wide architecture for CI/CD, deployment, networking, and security.
• Collaborates in the architecture definition for test automation, hardware and external interface simulation.
• Defines system wide hardware and external interface simulation architecture.
• Provides overall technical leadership support in use case analysis, feature definition, user needs and functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Defines comprehensive software design architecture for a subsystem.
• Author’s architecture description document, and high-level design documents.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering or closely related STEM field
• Minimum 10 years of related experience.
• Master’s degree with minimum of 6 years of experience.
• Experience in Multithreaded applications, low level control of robots
• Expert level of understanding of test-driven methodologies
• Expert level of knowledge with continues integration and continues development (CI/CD)
• Expert level understanding of design patterns
• Experience in Embedded Development

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong data analytical & problem-solving skills
• Demonstraded ability in providing guidance to junior team members
• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently communicate technical topics to all levels within their team
• Ability to develop and design at the feature-level
• Ability to plan and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its service level agreements (SLAs)
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently communicate technical topics to all levels within their team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilties.
• Experience in leading the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is

$111,300.00 – $222,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

DIVISION:

CRLB Core Lab

LOCATION:

United States > Irving : LC-8

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)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.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf