Strategic Data & AI Architect – Operations & Finance

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Director of Data & AI Architecture for Operations and Finance to define and lead the overall architecture strategy. You will partner with business, security, and vendor teams to shape target-state architecture and enable trusted Data & AI solutions across the portfolio.

You will guide governance, drive multi-year roadmaps, and develop a senior architecture community to scale practices while ensuring compliance and value realization across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s + 10 years, Master’s + 9 years, or PhD + 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience defining roadmaps, target architecture, and modernization investment strategies.
• Experience leading architecture teams, mentoring architects, and scaling architecture practices.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native, lakehouse, event-driven, microservices, API-first, and GenAI application architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own the Operations & Finance Data & AI architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year architecture roadmap; align architecture with data & AI enterprise standards, business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology investment priorities.
• Define and establish the target operating model for Data and AI architecture across Operations and Finance, including governance, decision rights, architecture review mechanisms, reusable patterns, and clear accountability across business and technology organizations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership bench of senior architects; build organizational capability, succession depth, and a scalable architecture community of practice in collaboration with enterprise architects.
• Guide enterprise tooling and partner strategy for data and AI; evaluate strategic vendors, influence sourcing decisions, and oversee complex proof-of-concept and due diligence efforts tied to long-term capability building.
• Define architecture patterns for consuming trusted enterprise data products, semantic services, knowledge graphs, and retrieval services to enable scalable AI-powered business applications.

Skills

Cloud-native

Lakehouse

Event-driven

Microservices

APIs-first

GenAI architectures

Architecture governance

Executive influence

Data & AI strategy

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BW

SAP BPC

SAP Datasphere

Job description

AbbVie in the United States is seeking a Director of Data & AI Architecture for Operations and Finance to define and lead the overall architecture strategy. You will partner with business, security, and vendor teams to shape target-state architecture and enable trusted Data & AI solutions across the portfolio.

You will guide governance, drive multi-year roadmaps, and develop a senior architecture community to scale practices while ensuring compliance and value realization across the organization.