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:
Reporting to the DVP of AI, Data, and Automation, the Senior Director of Information Management, Data and Analytics is responsible for our enterprise data and analytics capability. You will own the strategy, lead the team, and architect our pragmatic transition from a fragmented data landscape to a modern, AI-ready foundation, without disrupting what the business depends on today.
You will lead a global technical organization of 50+ FTEs comprising data engineers, architects, BI developers, data product owners, and integration specialists across four interconnected domains: Data Analytics & BI, Data Mesh & Products, Data Platform & Integration, and Governance & Information Management.
What You’ll Work On
Information Management Strategy & Architecture
- Define the multi-year data and analytics strategy aligned with the organizational AI agenda; build investment-backed roadmaps and migration strategies in conjunction with Abbott business units/divisions.
- Establish the architectural blueprint for Information Management, ensuring the organization has the skills and capabilities to design, develop, and deploy cloud-native data fabrics with a pragmatic migration path from legacy foundations, accounting for Abbott’s regulatory requirements. Own the integration and application landscape; make clear decisions on what to build, consolidate, integrate, or retire, and define the organizational structure required to support the strategy.
- Define and enforce data engineering standards across the delivery organization to enable a high-performance organization, including branching strategies, data CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DataOps practices that ensure repeatable, auditable, and high-quality delivery. Stay current with the pace of change in data and AI technology, evaluating emerging standards and translating relevance into pragmatic adoption plans.
Data Platform & Integration
- Lead platform modernization while maintaining critical business operations, ensuring the organization has the capabilities and oversight to design data contracts, integration standards, and observability practices across systems and domains. Ensure the platform architecture supports both batch and real-time data workloads, including event-streaming patterns required for AI inference pipelines and operational analytics, as well as modern database technologies, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code practices..
- Implement MDM disciplines for core entities; build pipeline reliability, SLA tracking, lineage, and automated quality controls, ensuring data observability through suitable tooling.
- Drive application rationalization of the tooling estate for information management, publish standards, negotiate with vendors, and consolidate in support of global application rationalization requirements.
Data Mesh, Data Products & BI
- Drive the shift from pipeline operations to a federated data product model/domain-owned, SLA-governed, documented assets that analytics and AI teams can depend on, built on a self-serve data infrastructure.
- Lead the design and delivery of BI systems and self-service analytics that give business units confidence in the data underlying their decisions, leveraging modern BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent) with governed semantic layers and dataset frameworks.
- Develop KPI frameworks, enterprise reporting standards, and executive dashboards that deliver a consistent, trusted view of the business across divisions.
- Champion the shift from report delivery to analytical product ownership with defined consumers, feedback loops, versioning, and quality SLAs for every data product.
AI Enablement
- Ensure the data estate is AI-ready: clean, accessible, versioned, and governed for model training and inference, including support for LLM fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, and real-time feature serving in partnership with broader members of the BTS organization.
- Build and operate feature stores, real-time pipelines, and vector-enabled datasets supporting both predictive and generative AI use cases, in close partnership with AI Engineering.
- Conduct data readiness assessments before AI investment is committed, scoping use cases against data reality, and maintain a live view of data quality and coverage across priority AI initiatives.
Team Leadership
- Lead, develop, and retain a global organization of 50+ technical professionals, including data engineers, platform architects, BI developers, data product owners, and governance specialists.
- Build a team narrative and capability evolution path that defines the skills needed at periodic stages, and develop plans to shape the organization strategically, including what to hire, develop, and partner with externally.
- Upskill the team in modern data engineering practices and provide technical and professional leadership in information management delivery.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, where data quality and reliability are team values, not compliance obligations.
Program & Project Delivery
- Function as senior accountable owner for major data platform and transformation programs with budgets up to $30M, balancing run-the-business obligations with build-the-future delivery with ownership of end-to-end delivery of the data and analytics program portfolio from business case through to production with clear milestones, strong program delivery focus, governance, and stakeholder reporting at every stage. Hold rights on strategic vendors and tooling used within the Information Management domain, in alignment with Abbott Business Technology Services guidelines and the DVP of AI, Data, and Automation.
- Establish and sustain a portfolio management discipline: prioritization frameworks, dependency mapping, investment tracking, capacity planning, and executive-level reporting on program status and value realized. Apply structured delivery methodologies, including both waterfall and Agile, iterative delivery, and DevOps/DataOps practices that balance speed of delivery with the rigor required in a regulated enterprise environment.
- Ensure all programs maintain compliance with Abbott’s IT governance framework, change management standards, and relevant regulatory requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle
Required Qualifications
- Masters Degree Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration or similar
- 12+ years in data management, data engineering, analytics, or information architecture with at least 5 years in senior leadership of established global teams and multi-year technology programs
- Proven track record of leading and modernizing enterprise data estates: migrating from legacy warehouse architectures to cloud-native, AI-ready platforms while maintaining business continuity.
- Deep familiarity with the modern data stack: cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, or BigQuery), transformation and orchestration (Apache Airflow), open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake), and BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau).
- Hands-on experience designing and operating data governance programs at enterprise scale, including data cataloging, metadata management, data quality frameworks, and MDM in complex, federated organizations.
- Experience running a global IT delivery organization with 30+ technical FTEs, managing programs up to $30M in size, applying structured delivery methodologies in a regulated enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex global vendor portfolios, negotiating enterprise technology contracts, managing SLAs, and building strategic supplier relationships.
The base pay for this position is
$190,000.00 – $380,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
IT Services & Solutions Delivery
DIVISION:
BTS Business Technology Services
LOCATION:
United States > Abbott Park : AP06C
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes, 20 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
