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AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

About the Role

The Data Platform team builds and maintains the foundation that powers analytics, ML, and data-driven products. As part of Platform Engineering, our mission is to enable other teams to move faster, safer, and with greater reliability by delivering scalable, observable, and compliant data systems.

We’re seeking a Manager, Data Platform with strong technical expertise and 2-4 years of leadership experience. You’ll own the evolution of the data ecosystem from ingestion and transformation pipelines to data modeling and event-driven systems, ensuring performance and stability at scale. You will mentor engineers while staying hands-on with architecture and implementation.

Who You Are

You’re a systems-minded leader who blends architectural vision with hands-on execution. You build for scale, reliability, and simplicity. Enabling teams across the organization to deliver trusted, high-quality data with confidence and speed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of data and software platform engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.

• Define and execute the data platform roadmap, covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data access.

• Design, implement, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data models that support analytics, ML, and operational workloads.

• Architect and evolve event-driven data systems using Kafka to enable scalable, decoupled pipelines.

• Maintain and optimize core data tooling such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and Fivetran.

• Ensure system reliability, observability, and performance across development, staging, and production environments.

• Partner with domain and product engineering teams to define and enforce data contracts, governance, and quality standards.

• Manage AWS-based infrastructure (MWAA, S3, RDS/Postgres, MSK, Glue, Lambda, ECS/EKS) using Terraform.

• Collaborate with Platform and Security Engineering on CI/CD, monitoring, and compliance practices.

• Champion automation, scalability, and cost efficiency within the platform.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years total experience in data, software, and platform engineering roles.

• 2-4 years of experience leading or managing technical teams.

• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript for data pipeline and backend service development.

• Expertise in PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and replication.

• Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT frameworks, and event-driven architecture.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Terraform, and AWS data services.

• Proven success operating and scaling production data systems with high reliability and observability.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at thetime of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location,and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of anybonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleand absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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