Director, Senior Enterprise Architect

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Title: Director, Senior Enterprise Architect

Location: Alameda, CA

As a global leader in Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) and biowearable technology, Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC) is rapidly evolving to deliver personalized, data-driven health experiences. With a dual B2C/B2B model, expanding global manufacturing footprint, and a projected customer inquiries volume doubling by 2031, we are investing in transformative IT capabilities across customer experience, quality, operations, and supply chain. Competing with native digital software companies, we require a strategic Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of our complex technology ecosystem—ensuring scalability, security, and innovation across all domains.

Role Summary

The Enterprise Architect is a key contributor in defining enterprise and divisional multi‑year technology strategies, enforcing modern engineering and architecture standards, enabling cloud‑native, AI/ML, IoT, and automation capabilities into secure, scalable solutions that fuel growth and reduce risk. The role fosters a culture of innovation and continuous improvement; empowering teams to experiment, learn, and iterate quickly—drives high‑value use cases from prototype to production, and champions the pragmatic adoption of next‑generation technologies, translating complex concepts into clear business value for executives and business partners.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy & Leadership

• Define multi-year technology roadmaps aligned with corporate and divisional objectives.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior executives, translating complex technology into clear business value.
• Demonstrate high emotional intelligence (EQ) in leadership.
• Balance historical industry experience with a forward-looking approach to transformation and innovation.
• Experience in a product/software-based environment is considered beneficial.
• Guide business cases, investment decisions, and portfolio execution.
  
  

2. Architecture & Standards

• Develop and steward the enterprise architecture blueprint to support business agility, performance, and security across domains.
• Establish enterprise standards for secure coding, clean architecture, automated testing, and CI/CD at scale.
• Oversee the design and delivery of high-volume, mission-critical applications and APIs.
• Lead build-vs-buy assessments, technical due-diligence reviews, and system-integration patterns.
• Promote microservices, event-driven design, and cloud-native best practices.
• Guide solution design and delivery to ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
  
  

3. Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Identify and prioritize pragmatic use cases for AI/ML, IoT, data products, and automation, guiding pilots through to scaled delivery
• Execute an innovation funnel of prototypes and proofs of concept, evaluating technical feasibility and business value.
• Partner with universities, startups, and vendors to accelerate experimentation and co-innovation.
• Monitor industry trends—including cloud, DevSecOps, AI/ML, edge, and quantum—and convert insights into actionable capabilities.
  
  

4. Talent & Culture

• Recruit, coach, and retain a high-performing, diverse global team of engineers, architects, and data specialists.
• Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and inclusion, and build architecture awareness and digital fluency across the enterprise.
  
  

5. Compliance & Quality

• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards at both enterprise and product levels.
• Architect digital quality systems for complaint handling, post-market surveillance, and process automation.
• Deliver secure, compliant solutions in regulated environments.
  
  

6. Systems & Modernization

• Architect and modernize MES, PLM, ERP, and supply chain systems.
• Enable unified data strategy, real-time observability, and AI/ML integration.
• Support scalable growth and operational continuity.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• Experience: 12+ years of technology leadership, including 5+ years overseeing software engineering and architecture teams.
• Technical Mastery: Proven delivery of large scale, highly available systems using microservices, event streaming, and public cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP). Working knowledge of modern programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, C#), AI/ML platforms, data engineering pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strategic & Commercial Acumen:  Demonstrated ability to align technology roadmaps with business objectives.
• Innovation Mindset: Track record of fostering experimentation, rapid prototyping, and continuous improvement; familiar with design thinking or lean startup frameworks.
  
  

Skills And Competencies

• Strong knowledge of SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, APIs, microservices, and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with EA tools, ITIL frameworks, agile methodologies, and financial modeling.
• Effective leadership and consulting skills with strong stakeholder management.
• Ability to translate complex strategies into actionable roadmaps.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  
  

The base pay for this position is $193,300.00 – $386,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.