Director, Data & AI Architect, Operations and Finance

The Director Data & AI Architect Operations and Finance will define and lead the overall Data & AI architecture strategy for Operations and Finance ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and business transformation goals. This role will provide senior architecture leadership across Data & AI technology capabilities helping translate complex business needs into scalable secure and reusable technology patterns. The leader will partner closely with business technology enterprise architecture security compliance and vendor teams to shape target-state architecture guide investment decisions and enable trusted high-value Data & AI solutions across the Operations and Finance portfolio.

Key Responsibilities 

• Own the Operations & Finance Data & AI architecture vision strategy and multi-year architecture roadmap; align architecture with data & AI enterprise standards business strategy regulatory requirements and technology investment priorities.
• Define and establish the target operating model for Data and AI architecture across Operations and Finance including governance decision rights architecture review mechanisms reusable patterns and clear accountability across business and technology organizations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership bench of senior architects; build organizational capability succession depth and a scalable architecture community of practice in collaboration with enterprise architects.
• Guide enterprise tooling and partner strategy for data and AI; evaluate strategic vendors influence sourcing decisions and oversee complex proof-of-concept and due diligence efforts tied to long-term capability building.
• Define architecture patterns for consuming trusted enterprise data products semantic services knowledge graphs and retrieval services to enable scalable AI-powered business applications.
• Contribute to financial stewardship for a large-scale architecture and transformation portfolio including shaping annual and multi-year investment plans cost discipline and value realization expectations.
• Establish architecture standards for Data & AI platform and applications including data platform data products MLOps agentic orchestration multi-agent collaboration human-in-the-loop controls memory management runtime observability guardrails and responsible AI patterns.
• Define runtime architecture standards for scalability resiliency performance monitoring telemetry observability disaster recovery and operational readiness of Data & AI applications.

Qualifications :

 Required:

• Bachelors 10 years Masters 9 years or PhD 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience defining roadmaps target architecture and modernization investment strategies.
• Experience leading architecture teams mentoring architects and scaling architecture practices.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native lakehouse event-driven microservices API-first and GenAI application architectures.
• Experience establishing architecture governance review boards standards and operating models.
• Strong ability to influence executives by connecting technology decisions to business value and risk.

Preferred:

• Experience with SAP platforms (S/4HANA BW BPC Datasphere) and SAP-integrated Data & AI solutions.
• Knowledge of UI/UX patterns for Data & AI applications including agent-assisted experiences.
• Familiarity with model selection fine-tuning optimization and cost-performance tradeoffs.
• Experience in regulated industries with strong security compliance and quality requirements.

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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Employment Type :

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