Senior Data Operations Leader – Healthcare Data & Analytics

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an Associate Director of APS Data Operations to lead patient services, copay and affordability programs, and related data domains. You will guide data acquisition, integration, quality, anonymization, and governance while partnering with BTS, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and IT.

Responsibilities include leading technical workstreams, ensuring data readiness for launches, and driving automation and AI-enabled monitoring to improve data quality and operational capacity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in roles including 5+ years in data operations.
• Experience leading technical workstreams and delivering outputs.
• Ability to define/validate analytical methods and communicate risks.
• Experience with data lifecycle, metadata, retention/archival.
• Experience in healthcare data or life sciences preferred.
• Strong SQL, data integration, privacy and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data operations for patient services and related data domains.
• Lead technical workstreams and communicate progress, risks, and mitigations.
• Oversee onboarding, validation, reconciliation, monitoring of data sources.
• Implement and monitor data lifecycle and quality processes.
• Develop and maintain metadata documentation.
• Identify and resolve data management issues; drive process improvements.

Skills

Data ops

Vendor mgmt

Cross-functional

SQL

Data governance

Data anonymization

Executive comms

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in IS

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data integration tools

Job description

AbbVie seeks an Associate Director of APS Data Operations to lead patient services, copay and affordability programs, and related data domains. You will guide data acquisition, integration, quality, anonymization, and governance while partnering with BTS, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and IT.

Responsibilities include leading technical workstreams, ensuring data readiness for launches, and driving automation and AI-enabled monitoring to improve data quality and operational capacity.