AbbVie

Principal Engineer, Salesforce

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5 days ago
North Chicago, IL, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$125k - $237k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own OnePRM system architecture, engineering standards, technical strategy, and multi-year modernization and migration roadmap.
  • Lead solution architecture, technical design, data modeling, integration strategy, platform evolution, and scalable workflow automation across Salesforce and connected systems.
  • Evaluate Salesforce capabilities, AI-enabled solutions, and engineering tools; lead proofs of concept and production adoption.
  • Manage up to three engineering pods and blended internal and vendor teams across architecture, development, QA automation, and DevOps.
  • Drive release planning, CI/CD/CT modernization, automated testing, code analysis, design and code reviews, release readiness, and compliance controls.
  • Govern technical debt, refactoring, data quality, documentation, privacy, security, and operational resilience.
  • Coach application architects, technical leads, and senior engineers while building technical depth and succession capability.
  • Oversee team capacity, vendor performance, delivery execution, and approximately $2 million in engineering budget stewardship.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education with 8 years of relevant experience, master’s degree or equivalent education with 7 years, or PhD with 3 years in application strategy, requirements, architecture, design, engineering, or related technology disciplines.
  • Experience planning, architecting, designing, developing, integrating, and operating Salesforce CRM solutions using Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Health Cloud or Life Sciences Cloud.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Salesforce workflow automation, responsive UI, data architecture, relational data modeling, data migration, data quality management, API engineering, integration design, and platform configuration.
  • In-depth knowledge of systems development life cycle, enterprise application development practices, enterprise architecture principles, and Salesforce Well-Architected concepts.
  • Demonstrated experience leading large enterprise projects and technically complex initiatives from business requirements through end-to-end solution delivery.
  • Hands-on experience with Apex, Triggers, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and Salesforce integration features.
  • Strong integration architecture and engineering background, including REST and SOAP APIs, middleware integrations, direct system interfaces, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Experience applying object-oriented design principles and design patterns to enterprise solutions.
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD/CT practices, and Salesforce ecosystem delivery tooling.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to senior leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.
  • Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, Application Architect, System Architect, consultant, Data Architecture and Management, or Integration Architecture certifications are preferred.
  • Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience, Salesforce Data 360, Agentforce, and Agentforce Vibes experience are preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, vacation, holidays, sick leave, medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
  • Eligible to participate in AbbVie long-term incentive programs.
  • Travel is required approximately 5% of the time.

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