Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Abbott Laboratories; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 129,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Cancer Diagnostics in Madison seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the PatientHub and Consumer Initiated Orders teams, shaping architecture and delivering high-traffic, patient-facing portals.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, QE, and UX, and drive on-time, high-quality delivery in a regulated healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 10+ years of IT experience with increasing responsibility.
• 5+ years of leading or directing people and/or project teams.
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented, service-oriented, micro-service architectures, and programming principles.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Raise capabilities in the engineering team through coding, testing, and deployment practices.
• Maintain relationships and transparency with stakeholders (Lab, Sales, Support, Customers, Affiliates).
• Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps and manage capacity.

Skills

Object-oriented design

Service-oriented architecture

Microservice architecture

Programming principles

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

High School Diploma + 4 years relevant experience

Job description

Position Overview

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.

At Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, we're cancer fighters. That's not a tagline, it's the reason we come to work every day. Our mission is to change lives through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, and ultimately to help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes. Everything we build, including the software you'd be leading, exists to move that mission forward. We're looking for a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the team behind PatientHub and Consumer Initiated Orders, two of the products patients rely on most when they interact with us directly. These are internet-facing, high-traffic, content-rich portals, and we're looking for a leader who's as invested in growing this team as they are in growing the product. This is a people-leadership role first and foremost. You'll report directly to the Senior Director of Software Engineering, and you'll have real room to shape how this team works, grows, and takes on hard problems together. Staying technical matters here too. While this is a leadership role, we want someone with strong architectural instincts who stays close enough to the code to jump into design discussions and code reviews with the team, not just to observe, but to genuinely contribute. We'd love to hear from you if you're a proven engineering leader who has led teams of 30 or more and operated as a manager of managers, and who genuinely enjoys working shoulder-to-shoulder with Product, QE, and UX as a normal part of the week rather than an exception. We're looking for someone who cares deeply about the growth of the people on their team, who leads with data and solid engineering fundamentals, and who isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves when it matters.

Essential Duties

• Raise capabilities in the engineering team; including, but not limited to, developing coding, testing, and deployment protocols and best practices.
• Maintain strong relationships and transparency with key stakeholders (Lab, Sales, Support, Customers, and Affiliates).
• Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps, requirements, balance business need with capacity, and technology constraints.
• Influence senior engineering and business leaders to drive increased capability though engineering processes and technologies.
• Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams to design innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by the Company.
• Supervise staff; including, but not limited to, organize and prioritize work, write/conduct performance reviews, train/develop, and manage work performance.
• Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
• Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
• Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Ability to apply good process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem resolution skills.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Excellent project communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to execute project delivery to client satisfaction on time, on budget with quality.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls, and leading in a managed service environment.
• Ability to drive continuous improvements in organizational performance and efficiency, and career development for employees.
• 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.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a field related to the essential duties of the job; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology with increasing responsibility and advancing technical skills.
• 5+ years of experience leading or directing people and/or project teams.
• Strong proficiency of object-oriented, service-oriented architecture, micro-service architecture, and programming principals.
• 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

• Experience in digital experiences, e-commerce, or content-platform environments, including leading customer-facing, internet-facing, high-traffic, content-heavy portal teams at enterprise scale.
• Experience leading or contributing to team design and domain ownership efforts, informed by Team Topologies principles, including service decomposition and establishing clear boundaries in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience defining and championing non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as performance, scalability, availability, observability, and security as first-class engineering concerns across multiple teams.
• Expertise with integration architecture patterns including HL7, FHIR, middleware technologies, and event-driven platforms such as Kafka.
• Familiarity with UX design systems and the engineering practices that support consistent, scalable user experiences in a product-led organization.
• Healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industry experience, including internationally regulated environments.

Base Pay

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

Product Development

Division

ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

Location

United States > Madison : 1 Exact Lane

Additional Locations

NONE

Work Shift

Standard

Travel

No

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)

Equal Opportunity Employer

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

About Abbott

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential - because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions - across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well-being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life's greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.