Sr Manager, Software Engineering

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Cancer Diagnostics seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the team behind PatientHub and Consumer Initiated Orders. This is a people-leadership role with opportunities to shape how the team works, grows, and tackles hard problems while staying close to code for design discussions.

You'll report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and work with Product, QE, and UX to drive growth, quality, and delivery in a fast-paced, high-traffic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field, or HS diploma with 4 years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years of IT experience with increasing responsibility.
• 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 principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams of 30+ and manage managers; partner with Product, QE, and UX.
• Drive roadmaps and requirements with business and technology teams.
• Influence senior leaders to improve capability and processes.
• Coach and develop team members; maintain morale and engagement.
• Ensure delivery of projects on time, on budget, with high quality.

Skills

Leadership

Software architecture

People management

Stakeholder management

Project delivery

Technical mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or related field

Tools

OO design

SOA

Microservices

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Overview

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 through 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. Dem