Sr. Manager, IT Architecture

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and your family be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our locations in St. Paul and Maple Grove MN currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager IT Architecture within the Medical Device IT Product Technology organization. This role operates in a highly regulated security-sensitive environment (SOC 2 ISO 27001) and is responsible for delivering platforms and services that enable connected products (IoT) and support customers and clinicians.

The Senior Manager works closely with business partners R&D and internal IT teams to design standardize and scale infrastructure capabilities that support secure reliable and compliant product ecosystems.

The Senior Manager IT Architecture serves as the technical leader and people manager for the architecture function responsible for defining infrastructure strategy establishing standards and ensuring alignment with security compliance and business objectives.

This role acts as a trusted advisor and decision authority across Product Technology driving innovation while maintaining operational rigor.

What Youll Work On

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and develop a team of architects supporting the Product Technology environment
• Define and communicate the architecture vision roadmap and standards
• Provide technical leadership across cloud platform and infrastructure strategy
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate

Architecture Governance

• Own and lead the Infrastructure Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes
• Ensure alignment with Product Security compliance and regulatory requirements
• Establish and enforce architecture principles standards and guardrails
• Oversee intake evaluation and approval of new infrastructure designs

Solution Design & Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor to R&D and application development teams
• Guide design of infrastructure for business partner applications and shared services
• Ensure solutions are secure scalable resilient and consumable by DevOps and application teams
• Collaborate closely with BRMs and Project Managers during intake and design phases

Cloud & Platform Innovation

• Lead the evaluation and onboarding of cloud providers and PaaS services (Azure AWS GCP).
• Lead efforts to migrate and transform on-prem applications to cloud delivery.
• Drive adoption of modern platform capabilities (CI/CD infrastructure as code automation)
• Execute and oversee proof-of-concepts (PoCs) for new technologies
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML and generative AI capabilities within cloud platforms ensuring alignment with security compliance and Product Technology standards
• Partner with business and R&D teams to assess AI-driven solutions and define scalable compliant infrastructure patterns to support AI workloads and data pipelines

Standards Documentation & Enablement

• Develop infrastructure blueprints and reference architectures
• Document standards including:
  • Network design
  • Ingress/Egress patterns
  • Security and compliance requirements
• Enable smooth transition of designs to DevSecOps and operations teams for production

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with SRE DevOps Security and application teams
• Work closely with business partners to align on strategic outcomes
• Manage vendor selection processes and relationships

• Design and architect infrastructure solutions for business partner applications and shared services
• Ensure architectures are standardized reusable and scalable across the platform
• Consult on application infrastructure aligned with business objectives
• Manage vendor technologies and evaluate new solutions
• Mentor and develop team members as a technical SME and leader
• Balance innovation with risk management and compliance adherence
• Apply Product Security and certification standards across all designs

Minimum Experience/Education Required

Minimum experience Required

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or related field OR equivalent experience
• 10 years of progressive IT experience including architecture and engineering.
• Strong experience leading migration of on-premises systems to cloud-based environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP)
• Strong experience with:
  • CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Infrastructure design and architecture governance
• Experience operating in a regulated environment with audits and compliance controls
• 35 years managing technical teams (architects or senior engineers)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across business and technical stakeholders

Preferred skills

• Experience optimizing and managing cloud cost (FinOps mindset)
• Experience in medical devices healthcare or other regulated industries
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills

Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott locations in MN. This is not a remote role/opportunity.

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In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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