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 DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Working at Abbott

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

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Irving, TX currently has an opportunity for a Software Architect. The Software Architect will be responsible to independently applies advanced engineering knowledge to complete complex assignments, who leads the design and development of complex software code, unit tests and integration tests for a subsystem.

What You’ll Work On

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency of the complete software development process, leads and is accountable for the engineering design and implementation for all features in one or more subsystems in the system.
• Overseas the end-to-end implementation of all internal and external interfaces, implementation patterns and unit, integration and performance testing strategy for all features in one or more subsystems.
• Defines strategies to meet functional and non-function requirements.
• Continuously monitors and reviews all code committed to one or more subsystems for quality, compliance and design adherence.
• Leads implementation for high-complexity, mission-critical features and capabilities.
• Oversees continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) design of one or more subsystems.
• Ensures test coverage of all features and capabilities in one or more subsystems.
• Develops software system test strategies and test plans including regression analysis for complex features.
• Provides technical feasibility assessment to System Engineer on emerging user needs and product requirements.
• Reviews software requirements as a technical subject matter expert.
• Evaluates multiple design options, leads proof-of-concepts and proposes optimal design solutions compatible with the software system architecture.
• Leads root cause investigations on high-complexity or high-severity issues.
• Participates in corrective and preventative action assessments as participant of CAPA activities

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering or closely related STEM field
• Minimum 8-10 years of related experience.
• Master’s degree with minimum of 6 years of experience.
• Experience in Multithreaded applications, low level control of robots
• Expert level of understanding of test-driven methodologies
• Expert level of knowledge with continues integration and continues development (CI/CD)
• Expert level understanding of design patterns
• Experience in Embedded Development

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong data analytical & problem-solving skills  
• Demonstrated ability in providing guidance to junior team members
• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently comminate technical topics to all levels within their team
• Ability to develop and design at the feature-level
• Ability to plan and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its service level agreements (SLAs)
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently communicate technical topics to all levels within their team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities
• Experience in leading the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

     

The base pay for this position is

$97,300.00 – $194,700.00

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

CRLB Core Lab

        

LOCATION:

United States > Irving : LC-8

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

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.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf