Architect, Delivery Operations & AI Systems

This role will serve as the lead Architect for Delivery Operations designing and governing enterprise-grade platforms workflows and integration patterns that enable scalable secure and reliable delivery of software data and AI-enabled solutions across R&D and Safety. This role is responsible for defining architectural strategy guiding implementation teams and ensuring that agentic cloud and enterprise application capabilities are translated into business value while meeting operational compliance and security standards. 

The Architect will act as a senior technical leader across product engineering operations and data disciplines to modernize delivery capabilities improve resilience and establish scalable patterns for AI-enabled systems and traditional application ecosystems. 

Responsibilities:

• Architect enterprise delivery solutionsfor complex business and scientific workflows including software platforms automation pipelines integrations and AI-enabled operational capabilities. 
• Define end-to-end architecture patternsfor agentic and traditional systems including orchestration tool integration event-driven services APIs cloud-native components and enterprise data connectivity. 
• Lead design of LLM- and agent-based capabilities including prompting/orchestration strategies memory and context handling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) structures and human-in-the-loop decision pathways. 
• Establish architecture guardrailsfor safety security compliance observability reliability and cost management across AI and application delivery platforms. 
• Provide senior technical consultationto Delivery Operations leadership product teams software engineers and business stakeholders on architecture decisions technology selection and implementation tradeoffs. 
• Design for operational resilience including monitoring telemetry fallback mechanisms access control prompt injection protection and service recovery patterns. 
• Drive cloud DevOps and MLOps architecture standards including CI/CD pipelines containerization serverless workloads message-based processing and scalable runtime environments. 
• Evaluate emerging technologiesand translate them into pragmatic business-relevant architecture recommendations that improve productivity delivery speed quality and risk management. 
• Lead cross-functional architecture alignmentacross product management software engineering data science platform teams and support organizations to ensure cohesive technical direction. 
• Mentor engineers and technical leadsby promoting architecture best practices reviewing designs and helping teams solve highly complex implementation and operational challenges.

Core Agentic & AI Skills 

• LLM Orchestration & Prompting:Deep understanding of how LLMs plan reason and act in enterprise workflows. 
• Tool & API Integration:Designing systems where agents safely invoke function-calling patterns and external/internal APIs. 
• Memory & Context Management:Architecting short-term and long-term memory strategies including vector and graph-based context persistence. 
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)/ Model Context Protocols (MCP):Connecting agents to enterprise knowledge and data sources securely accurately and with traceability. 

System Reliability & Governance 

• Observability & Telemetry:Designing monitoring patterns for probabilistic systems token consumption latency costs and operational quality. 
• Safety Guardrails & Security:Implementing prompt protection authorization controls policy enforcement fallback handling and safe execution boundaries. 
• Human-in-the-Loop Design:Creating escalation and approval pathways where human review is required for sensitive or high-risk decisions. 

Enterprise Architecture Foundations 

• Event-Driven Architecture:Designing asynchronous patterns where agent actions and enterprise services trigger downstream processes reliably. 
• DevOps & MLOps:Establishing deployment release and lifecycle management approaches for software and AI-enabled workflows. 
• Cloud Infrastructure:Leveraging cloud-native services such as serverless compute queues workflow engines and managed databases to support scalable operations. 

Strategic & Leadership Skills 

• Cross-Disciplinary Leadership:Bridging Product Engineering Data Science and Operations to drive aligned solution delivery. 
• Complex Problem Solving:Identifying where agentic solutions provide meaningful business value and where conventional solutions are more appropriate. 
• Influence & Communication:Explaining complex architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications :

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems Biomedical Engineering or related field plus 7 years experience; OR Masters degree plus 6 years experience; OR PhD with 2 years experience  
• Respective yearsof experience in software engineering enterprise architecture solution architecture or application/platform delivery roles. 
• Experience with AI/LLM-enabled systems agent orchestration patterns RAG frameworks or secure enterprise AI architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise application architectures. 
• Strong experience with cloud-native architecture APIs distributed systems event-driven design and modern software delivery practices. 
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (traditional and Agile methods) operational support models and platform reliability principles. 
• Experience working in regulated environments and applying security compliance and data governance requirements in architecture decisions. 
• Proven ability to evaluate emerging technologies and turn them into practical scalable business solutions. 
• Excellent written verbal and stakeholder communication skills. 

Preferred:

• Pharmaceutical life sciences R&D or Safety domain experience.
• Deep knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipeline design with hands-on experience in Azure-based development and deployment environments.
• Familiarity with modern enterprise technology platforms and tools including Claude Jira Confluent Docker Git JFrog Tricentis (qTest/Tosca) ServiceNow and Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Understanding of agentic development methodologies including BMAD with the ability to apply these approaches to scalable architecture and solution delivery.

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 posting based 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 pay more 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 long-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 Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys 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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