Connected Factory Engineer

Connected Factory is a program focused on the technical stewardship of key integration capabilities and their associated platforms across Manufacturing Operations at AbbVie. The Connected Factory Engineering team progresses the technical roadmap of platforms, accelerates the maturity of integrations between critical components of the manufacturing shopfloor, and advances availability of data for advanced use cases. This includes work with Ignition, OSI PI, Kepware, HighByte, AWS Cloud Services, and other platforms. Data and Integration capabilities supported include API management, IT/OT convergence, MQTT and other real-time data streaming protocols, Unified Namespace management, data historization, and event-driven services.

Responsibilities:
- Analyze existing solutions and processes and identify areas for optimization.
- Gather requirements from business users and translate them into technical specifications.
- Design and engineer technical capabilities to meet business needs.
- Develop system documentation, including user/admin manuals, architecture drawings, and technical specifications.
- Build and execute test protocols to ensure solutions function to specification.
- Author deployment instructions and implement them across supported platforms.
- Intake, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues as reported or as alerts are received.
- Ensure systems operate effectively, securely, and comply with relevant regulations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are integrated and scalable.
- Stay up to date with emerging trends and technologies.

Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field plus 2 years’ experience as a Developer, Systems Analyst/Admin, Engineer/Integrator, or similar; or Master’s degree with 0 experience.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and consultative skills.
- High focus on deliverables and detail oriented.
- Exceptional teamwork skills.
- Proficiency across software design/development, programming languages, data integration/warehousing/analysis/visualization, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.
Preferred:
- Experience with Ignition, Kepware, OSI PI, HighByte, and/or AWS Cloud Services.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models.