Associate Director - Business Intelligence, Analytics, and AI Automation (Hybrid)

Data And AI/Agentic Program Leader

Lead the design, strategy, and delivery of enterprise data and AI/Agentic programs across enterprise systems. This role combines technical leadership with organizational navigation; you will be the bridge between complex business needs and technical execution, accountable for defining solutions, identifying the right team members and resources (both internal and external) and ensuring consistency across the data landscape. Requires a technically credible leader who understands data architecture deeply and has built or led data systems.

Requires a leader who can connect and orchestrate across a large, complex organization: finding the right talent, identifying where capabilities already exist, evaluating tools based on principles, and making smart build/buy decisions. You will build and lead a small team and work closely with Business BTS partners who bring requirements from the field. In this role you must know appropriate approaches for ETL pipeline, building ML models, etc., how to best execute the work, and hold everyone accountable to standards.

Responsibilities

• Business Requirements Translation & Solution Design – engage with stakeholders to understand data needs, regulatory requirements and success metrics. Ask smart diagnostic questions and design end-to-end data solutions from source systems through transformation, governance, and consumption.

• Develop Strategies to Leverage Enterprise Data and Tools – establish data architecture standards and patterns and enforce consistency. Own the technical platform roadmap ensuring tools and technologies are selected strategically, not reactively by individual teams. Conduct architecture reviews for major initiatives to ensure alignment to enterprise standards.

• Identify Internal Resources and Partnerships – learn existing capabilities and tech landscape within the enterprise and leverage these connections so that we don't duplicate or reinvent.

• Develop Cross-Functional Partnerships & Communication – work closely with the Business BTS partners within Corporate Services and HR that interface with business stakeholders. The Business BTS partners will bring requirements, you will provide technical feasibility, timelines and risk assessment. Report regularly to the Directors of BTS Corporate Service and HR on progress, risks, etc. Collaborate with security, data governance, compliance, etc. to ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements.

• Develop the Operating Engagement Models – in partnership with the Directors of BTS Corporate Services and HR, create the processes that will allow this team to serve the Business BTS teams at scale.

• Team Leadership, Hiring & Resource Identification –responsible for the hiring and training of new and existing staff, conduct performance reviews and provide leadership, technical guidance and coaching to staff. Build organizational talent by creating a learning environment that ensures employees realize their highest potential.

• Technical Decision-Making & Build Resource Selection – evaluate build vs. buy vs. build on existing decisions. Select resources strategically deciding what work should be done by your team or purchased from vendors. Create realistic project scopes and budgets for data and AI Automation initiatives. Will manage the resource budgets – monitoring and controlling resources, expenses and capital costs against the project budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 9 years experience; Master's Degree with 8 years' experience; PhD with 4 year' experience.

• Scope Management – ability to effectively manage project scope and articulate tradeoffs.

• Ability to provide clear technical specifications for engineers and clear business value narratives for stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate tools and platforms based on technical fit, organizational constraints and cost – not hype or personal preference.

• Deep understanding of data architecture approaches, patterns, design principles and trade-offs.

• Proficiency with SQL and at least one other programming language (i.e. Phython).

• Exposure to multiple data platforms – Azure, Snowflake, AWS, Graph database (Neo4j), etc.

• Exposure to multiple BI/analytics tools, integration platforms and data governance tools – PowerBI, Qlik.

• Understanding of APIs, microservices and integration patterns.

• Healthcare or regulated industry experience – understanding of compliance requirements, audit trails, data governance and regulatory mindset. If not directly pharma, you've worked in an environment with comparable rigor.

• Ability to navigate large matrixed environments.

• Strong hiring and team building acumen.

• Excellent stakeholder management.

• Comfortable with ambiguity & complexity.

• Exposure to cloud migration, legacy system modernization or platform consolidation.

• Understanding and applied literacy of ML/AI capabilities and limitations.

Additional Information

• 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 the time 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.

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 any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and 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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Pay Range: $141500 - 268500 USD

Where We Work

Role is primarily site- or office-based but can occasionally be performed remotely. Employees who are site/office-based and can occasionally perform their role virtually work both in the office and remotely*, following the policies and regulations in place at their location. US Employees must be in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with flexibility to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Three days in the office is the minimum; some individuals or teams may require more in-office days due to meetings, business/project needs or their role.