Senior Cloud Architect

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . Follow @abbvie on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .

Job Description

Join an inclusive, collaborative Business Technology team as a Principal Cloud Architect in AbbVie BTS. In this role, you will serve as a technical visionary, shaping enterprise cloud strategy and driving innovation in a global, highly regulated environment. You’ll lead the design and implementation of cloud-native architectures—primarily on AWS—while ensuring alignment with business objectives. Partnering with multidisciplinary teams and specialized architects in Security, Data, Network, Application, and UX, you will integrate cloud solutions across Enterprise Architecture to enhance product delivery and accelerate adoption of modern platforms.

In this role you’ll be responsible for:

• Define, drive, and continually refine the enterprise cloud architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational vision, business objectives, and compliance standards (i.e., GxP).

• Lead the architecture, design, and hands-on implementation of secure, resilient, and scalable AWS-centered solutions, leveraging strategic use of services such as EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS, and EventBridge.

• Develop, evaluate, and endorse architectural diagrams and comprehensive documentation for cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with best practices and collaboration across technical and business stakeholders.

• Oversee design and automation of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible), fostering reliable, repeatable cloud deployments at scale.

• Lead the strategic architecture for multicloud and hybrid data platforms—primarily AWS (Glue, Athena, Redshift) and Azure Data Lake—defining standards, governance, and engineering patterns for regulated analytics pipelines and enterprise data lakes leveraging technologies such as Spark, Databricks Lakehouse, and cloudnative services.

• Drive DevOps & automation excellence: design, implement, and govern robust CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild), ensuring efficient application delivery and automated infrastructure management.

• Champion the AWS Well-Architected Framework by embedding its pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization) into enterprise practice and conducting regular reviews for continuous improvement.

• Lead the strategic architecture for containerized (EKS, ECS, Fargate) and serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) platforms, setting direction, standards, and decision frameworks that enable scalable and costefficient microservices, batch, and eventdriven systems.

• Ensure robust security and compliance within all cloud implementations, including access controls (IAM), data encryption, management of validated environments, and close collaboration with compliance and audit teams.

• Architect solutions for modernization and migration of on-premises applications, data, and infrastructure to scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud-native solutions, leveraging automation, best practices, and compliance standards throughout the process.

• Set the strategic direction for cloud guardrails—spanning landing zones, account and network patterns, IAM boundaries, encryption, logging, tagging, and policyascode—to ensure enterprisealigned risk, security, and compliance across AWS and Azure.

• Serve as a technical authority and mentor—influencing stakeholders, guiding engineers, and reviewing designs to raise the overall architecture bar.

• Architect observability solutions with best practices from the industry

• Use AI/MCP-enabled capabilities to quickly validate cloud designs, enable guided best-practice workflows with auditability, and enhance infrastructure management through ergonomic, automated actions.

• Oversee cloud cost management by monitoring and optimizing cloud service expenses and implementing tagging and financial governance across multi-cloud environments.

• Guide operational leadership through incident and problem management, continuous infrastructure reliability improvement, and engagement with application teams on innovative proof-of-concept pilots (AI and cloud advancements).

• Present and communicate cloud architecture strategies, roadmaps, and solutions effectively to both senior leaders and peer architects, fostering organization-wide architectural alignment.

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with affiliates, partners, vendors, and the broader industry to advance technology initiatives in alignment with corporate values.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience.

• AWS Core: EC2, VPC, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch

• Multi-cloud & Data: Azure, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Athena, Redshift

• IaC: CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, Ansible

• DevOps/Automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Git, PowerShell, Python, Bash

• Security & Compliance: IAM, encryption standards, compliance with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR

• Networking: VPC, subnetting, VPN, Direct Connect, routing, load balancing

• Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic

• Communication & Leadership: Excellent verbal/written communication to technical and non-technical audiences; ability to foster cross-functional collaboration and document/present technical solutions

Preferred:

• Cloud Architecture – 9+ years of experience in designing and supporting multi-cloud infrastructures, focusing primarily on AWS (required) and Google Cloud (GCP) & Azure (optional) (Candidates with a master’s degree must have 8+ years, PhD must have 5+ years). Industry experience is a plus.

• AWS Environment – Demonstrated expertise in deploying, managing, and optimizing large-scale AWS environments for performance, scalability, and resilience, while applying AWS Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure security, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

• CI/CD Pipelines – Proven track record in architecting and managing robust CI/CD pipelines using AWS technologies to drive software development efficiency and speed.

• Certifications – Holds AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications. Security credentials like CISSP or CCSP are advantageous.

• AWS Services Expertise – Strong knowledge of AWS core services (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS) combined with advanced skills in AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, and Fargate for developing scalable, serverless, and containerized applications.

• Infrastructure as Code & Automation – Advanced use of CloudFormation and Terraform for IaC; proficient with automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Git, and scripting with Python, Bash, and PowerShell to drive strategic cloud optimization.

• Service Delivery – Demonstrate proficiency in using agile tools such as Jira to manage and deliver product-based cloud solution releases efficiently.

• Security & Compliance – In-depth knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security protocols, and compliance standards to deliver secure and efficient cloud environments.

• Monitoring & Governance – Experience with AWS management and governance tools, alongside monitoring solutions like AWS CloudWatch and other third-party options enhanced by utilizing security tools like Wizio.

• High Availability & Resilience – Expertise in architecting high availability and disaster recovery solutions on AWS, ensuring business continuity and operational resilience.

• Communication & Leadership – Ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, from business to technical stakeholders, fostering collaboration and alignment.

• Innovation – Strong command of integrating emerging AWS technologies to stay at the forefront of cloud innovation and maintain a competitive advantage.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this postingbased on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately paymore or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and untilpaid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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