Sr Manager, Data Engineering
Abbott
Summary
This position works out of our Madison, Wisconsin location in Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, with remote eligibility in approved states.
Job description
As the Senior Manager, Data Engineering, you'll lead the data engineering organization for an assigned business domain and own its strategy, integrated roadmap, delivery, stakeholder alignment, technical governance, and operating performance. You will partner with business and technology leaders to deliver governed, reusable data products and integrations that support operational applications, analytics, semantic layers, machine learning, and AI.
What You'll Work On
- Lead, develop, and retain a domain data engineering organization, including Staff Engineers and contractor resources, with clear goals, decision rights, performance expectations, development plans, and succession strategies.
- Own the domain data engineering strategy, priorities, integrated roadmap, delivery commitments, stakeholder outcomes, and operating performance from planning through production support.
- Ensure timely resolution of material technical decisions and own priority, delivery, and technical-debt tradeoffs, while enabling Staff Engineers to lead domain technical design and Principal Engineers to provide cross-domain standards and guidance.
- Ensure domain data products and integrations align with shared enterprise platform capabilities and meet expectations for data quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, governance, access, and lifecycle management.
- Build transparent relationships with senior business and technology leaders, communicate roadmap status, dependencies, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs, and represent the domain in platform, architecture, and technology-governance decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or a high school diploma or General Education Diploma and four years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
- Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in data engineering, data platforms, technology delivery, or related leadership roles.
- Five or more years of direct people-leadership experience, including management of engineering staff.
- Demonstrated experience owning delivery, stakeholder outcomes, and operating performance for a data domain, platform, or program from planning through production support.
- Demonstrated technical depth sufficient to direct and evaluate data engineering work and make priority, delivery, and technical-debt tradeoffs involving data architecture, integration patterns, data models, and platform decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead delivery across direct reports, contractors, and dependent or matrixed teams, including change, contractor, risk, and dependency management.
- Experience operating in a regulated or highly controlled data environment and delivering stakeholder outcomes at the required quality and on schedule.
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student debt program
- Education benefit
Company overview
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare leader with a 135-year legacy of innovation, dedicated to helping people live healthier, fuller lives through life-changing technologies and products. Headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, the company operates in more than 160 countries with a workforce of approximately 114,000 professionals. Abbott's diversified portfolio spans four core business segments: medical devices, diagnostics, nutrition products, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. The company is particularly renowned for its groundbreaking medical devices including cardiovascular technologies, diabetes management systems like the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitor, neuromodulation devices for chronic pain, and the AVEIR DR dual chamber leadless pacemaker system. In diagnostics, Abbott has been instrumental in developing critical tests, including the first licensed HIV test in 1985 that helped secure blood supply safety. The company's nutrition division produces leading infant formulas like Similac, while its pharmaceutical business provides quality branded generic medicines. Abbott consistently ranks among Fortune's Most Admired Companies and maintains a strong commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility, making it a trusted partner in advancing global healthcare.