Chief Of Engineering Services

About AbbVie

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

As an Executive Director of Engineering, you will lead multiple engineering teams through a layer of engineering management, reporting to senior technology leadership and partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders across the business. You will be responsible for delivering scalable backend platforms, data services, and data products that address critical business and technical challenges.

You will set direction, empower engineering managers, drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives, and ensure your organization consistently delivers secure, reliable, and high-quality solutions aligned with company goals.

Own delivery, execution, and outcomes across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment to organizational objectives, key results, and business priorities.

Lead and develop engineering managers, enabling them to effectively run their teams, grow their people, and deliver high-impact results.

Build a high-performing engineering organization by driving clarity of accountability, strong operating rhythms, talent development, and a culture of continuous improvement.

Partner closely with product, architecture, data, security, and business stakeholders to shape strategy, define roadmaps, and translate priorities into executable plans.

Oversee the design, development, and operation of backend data services, APIs, pipelines, and data products, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance.

Drive technical and architectural decision-making in partnership with architects and senior engineers, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term business needs.

Establish and improve engineering processes across planning, estimation, prioritization, execution, dependency management, and release delivery.

Ensure visibility into portfolio health through clear communication of plans, risks, milestones, status, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Champion engineering excellence by promoting modern software development practices, code quality, test automation, observability, incident management, and operational readiness.

Ensure strong data governance and engineering discipline across systems, including data quality, security, privacy, and compliance with applicable standards and regulations.

Coach leaders and teams through change, helping the organization scale effectively while maintaining engagement, accountability, and delivery momentum.

Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and engineering best practices, and drive thoughtful adoption where it creates business value.

BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong depth in backend and data engineering domains such as APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure.

• 4+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams or functional areas.
• Proven experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and leadership development.
• Experience designing and scaling data APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed architectures.
• Deep understanding of data engineering concepts including data warehousing, data pipelines, data integration, and data product development.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and DynamoDB.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and modern engineering tooling, including AWS, Git, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies such as Lambda, SQS, and SNS.
• Experience establishing strong engineering quality practices, including unit, integration, end-to-end, load, and security testing strategies.
• Experience with technologies such as NestJS, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Kafka, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, and PagerDuty.

Experience leading platform, data, or backend engineering organizations in fast-paced, product-driven environments.

Experience driving organizational transformation, engineering maturity, and platform modernization initiatives.

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 the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

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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