Manager, Systems Development Software

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare with leading businesses and products in diagnostics medical devices nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Position Overview
The Manager Systems Development Software will lead a team in the successful delivery of critical software projects. This role will work with cross-functional teams and various business stakeholders to devise solutions to urgent business challenges. This role will communicate with project managers and leaders at all levels of our business. This individual will be responsible for continued successful support of Software Engineering and their mission to deliver critical development at Abbott Cancer Diagnostics in a wide range of areas of the business.

Emphasis will be placed on the persons technical and leadership skills as well as ability to coach their team to success and foster an innovative team environment.

Essential Duties
include but are not limited to the following:

• Use programming languages such as Java C C JavaScript Python SQL PL/.
• Raise capabilities in the engineering team; including but not limited to developing coding testing and deployment protocols and implementing best practices.
• Maintain strong relationships and transparency with key stakeholders (Lab Sales Support Customers and Affiliates).
• Partner with business and technology teams to prioritize roadmaps requirements balance business need with capacity and technology constraints.
• Work with business stakeholders and engineering teams to design innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by the Company.
• Supervise staff; including but not limited to organize and prioritize work write/conduct performance reviews train/develop and manage work performance.
• Communicate goals clearly to employees to ensure understanding and success in achieving them.
• Motivate and inspire employees to do their best work through coaching.
• Maintain morale and support employee engagement initiatives.
• Apply good process management negotiating influencing and problem resolution skills.
• Prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Provide excellent project communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Execute project delivery to client satisfaction on time on budget with quality.
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.
• Facilitate results through others particularly by establishing relationships effective controls and leading in a managed service environment.
• Drive continuous improvements in organizational performance and efficiency and career development for employees.
• Create flowcharts diagrams and other documentation as needed to capture system requirements and communicate system functionality.
• Participate in and lead design discussions.
• Participate in software engineering as time allows.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability innovation integrity quality and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the companys Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device tablet or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability and means to travel between Abbott Cancer Diagnostics locations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a field related to the essential duties of the job; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelors degree.
• 7 years of experience in Information Technology with increasing responsibility and advancing technical skills.
• 3 years of experience leading or directing people and/or project teams.
• Proficiency of object-oriented service-oriented architecture micro-service architecture and programming principals.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with one of the following areas: ERP LIMS Bioinformatics or clinical data management.
• Experience working in a regulated environment (SOX HIPAA CLIA GCP FDA ISO-13485 and/or IEC-62304).
• Demonstrated understanding of the Clinical Lab environment and lab processes.
• Enterprise class information technology experience (Custom-COTS Hybrid Integrated Multi-Channel End-User Multiple Mobile Platform Delivery Distributed Big Data).

The base pay for this position is

$99300.00 $198700.00

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Product Development

ONCO Cancer Diagnostics

United States > Madison : 5505 Endeavor Ln

Standard

Yes 5 % of the Time

No

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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