24 hours ago
Base Salary
$131k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own the architecture vision, roadmap, standards, governance, and technology strategy for a multi-product Microsoft Azure platform.
- Architect scalable, resilient, secure, observable, multi-region distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and connected IoT devices.
- Lead architecture for event-driven microservices using API-first design, domain-driven design, CQRS, asynchronous messaging, and related cloud-native patterns.
- Design platform architectures for web applications, mobile applications, APIs, IoT ecosystems, data platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Define reference architectures, guardrails, reusable frameworks, engineering standards, API governance, data governance, and interoperability standards.
- Lead modernization, cloud adoption, legacy migration, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Review solution architectures and provide governance through architecture reviews and design authorities.
- Establish security, observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, performance, cost optimization, and operational excellence practices.
- Partner with product, engineering, operations, security, and executive leadership to align technical strategy with business objectives.
- Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders and promote architectural excellence across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant enterprise and cloud architecture experience.
- 6+ years designing and architecting cloud-native platforms on Microsoft Azure.
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale SaaS products and complex distributed systems spanning microservices, web, mobile, IoT, data platforms, and event-driven integrations.
- Extensive experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, distributed messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Deep expertise in microservices, service mesh, event sourcing, CQRS, domain-driven design, containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design patterns.
- Strong experience with Azure services including AKS, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, IoT Hub, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Functions, storage, Redis, monitoring, and security services.
- Experience with highly available globally distributed systems, enterprise architecture governance, technology roadmaps, and architecture leadership across multiple product teams.
- Expertise in API, integration, data, security, and platform architecture; observability; identity and access management; Zero Trust; OAuth 2.0; OpenID Connect; resiliency; disaster recovery; performance; capacity; and cost optimization.
- Knowledge of AI/ML architecture, AI agents, intelligent automation, data privacy, compliance, and regulated software development is desirable; healthcare, regulated-environment, or enterprise SaaS experience is preferred.
- Strong executive communication, strategic thinking, cross-functional influence, mentoring, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to travel approximately 10% and maintain consistent and reliable attendance.
Benefits
- Career development opportunities with an international company.
- Potential eligibility for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan PPO in the next calendar year.
- Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU education benefit.
- Pleasanton, California location with a standard work shift; travel is listed as 15% of the time in the job details.
About Abbott
Abbott is a NYSE‑listed healthcare company that develops diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition products, and branded generic medicines for clinicians and consumers. Founded in 1888 and headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, it sells products in more than 160 countries, including the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system. Revenue comes primarily from product sales to hospitals, clinics, and retail channels.