Technical Solutions Engineer (Hybrid)

Role Summary

The Information Research organization at AbbVie supports pharmaceutical R&D scientists with implementation of technical solutions that meet their needs. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with the scientists and technology professionals addressing everyday challenges and enabling digital transformation of our laboratories. We are looking for a Technical Solutions Engineer who can provide technical expertise and direction in the development and support of client area application systems and programming requirements and processes (e.g., new, enhancements or maintenance), in the preparation of application system specifications, and in the development, testing, and implementation of efficient, cost-effective application solutions. This is a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Hands on technical experience for application configuration/deployment or package selection and implementation efforts.
• Provides comprehensive consultation to business units and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of application deployment and process implementation for diverse development platforms, computing environments (e.g. host based, distributed systems, client server, software, hardware, technologies and tools, etc.).
• Design system-to-system data sharing workflows utilizing leading system integration protocols and integration patterns.
• Responsible for translating functional specifications into application design specifications, including but not limited to the creation of application architectures, hardware and software configuration specifications, relational database schemas, and component/class specifications.
• Interact closely with the Business Systems Analysts, the client user community, and IT management and staff to identify technical solutions, or a combination of available alternatives.
• Interact with AbbVie’s various infrastructure, technical and security teams to plan, deploy and integrate AbbVie technical services and components into a seamless solution.
• Coordinates and facilitates application design sessions with development staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years technical experience, or Master’s degree plus 2 years of experience.
• Experience in Cloud deployment, DevOps, and system integration.
• Experience in AWS is highly desired.
• Experience with data analytics from multiple sources.
• Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, Shell Scripting or any other scripting language.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to effectively lead and facilitate meetings with customers and technical team members.
• Must be deliverable focused and detail oriented. Must have a strong customer focus.
• Must exhibit exceptional teamwork skills.

Skills

• System integration patterns and data sharing workflows
• Cloud platforms and DevOps tooling (with emphasis on AWS)
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Collaboration and teamwork, with customer-facing capabilities