Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Digital Solutions

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Summary: This Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Digital Solutions position leads technical vision, architecture, and development for digital products leveraging GenAI, Agentic AI, and code-generation tools. Highlights: 1. Lead technical vision and roadmap for digital products using GenAI/Agentic AI. 2. Drive architecture across cloud and edge, ensuring scalability and security. 3. Cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture. Apply Now Abbott is a global healthcare leader th helps people live more fully 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries. Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and libere more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks. Working Abbott At Abbott, you can do work th mters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: Career development with an internional company where you can grow the career you dream of. Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU educion benefit - an affordable and convenient ph to getting a bachelor’s degree. A company recognized as a gre place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune. A company th is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. THE OPPORTUNITY This Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Digital Solutions position can work out of our Santa Clara, CA locion. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Digital Solutions provides overall technical leadership for a portfolio of digital products, ensuring modern, scalable, and secure solutions th leverage GenAI, Agentic AI, and code-generion tools to accelere design, development, and delivery. This leader drives architecture, rapid prototyping, and deployment across edge and cloud environments; owns the technology product goal and backlog; and partners closely with Product, Marketing, Corpore IT, and Security within Abbott to ensure alignment to market and healthcare needs. The role is accountable for building and developing high-performing engineering teams, stewarding budgets and schedules, and serving as a visible technical representive across the organizion and with key external stakeholders. Wh You’ll Work On The incumbent may be asked to perform other function-reled activities in addition to the below mentioned responsibilities as reasonably required by business needs. Technical Stregy & Architecture Set the technical vision and roadmap for digital products, focusing on GenAI/Agentic AI, code generion, plform reusability, and modern engineering frameworks. Lead architectural direction for cloud, edge, and plform solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. Develop reusable reference architectures and contribute to AI governance frameworks in collaborion with Security and Compliance. Transle product stregy into clear, actionable engineering plans and technical priorities.   AI Innovion & Accelerion Evalue, pilot, and scale GenAI/Agentic AI pterns—including RAG, tool-use, orchestrion engines, and MCP frameworks—to enhance product capabilities and developer productivity. Drive rapid prototyping to quickly valide ideas, reduce risk, and speed time-to-value. Identify tools, automion, and process improvements th streamline software development.   Engineering Excellence & Delivery Establish and enforce engineering best practices including DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automed testing, observability, and secure-by-design principles. ​ Da Governance & Compliance Implement da governance frameworks th ensure da integrity, security, and compliance. Ensure engineering practices align with FDA regulions, quality systems, and applicable industry standards.   Leadership Partner closely with Product, Marketing, IT, Security, and business stakeholders to align roadmaps and manage dependencies. Represent engineering with internal executives, customers, partners, and regulory bodies. Manage external development partners, vendors, and suppliers; support sourcing, cost optimizion, and delivery excellence.​ Hire, mentor, and develop engineering and architecture talent, with emphasis on AI, plform engineering, and modern software disciplines. Cultive an inclusive, collaborive, high-performance culture focused on innovion, ownership, and continuous learning. Promote strong communicion and cross-functional teamwork across all levels of the organizion. Lead and mentor distributed engineering teams; ensure high-quality execution, predictable delivery, and continuous improvement. Proactively identify and mitige technical, delivery, and integrion risks across programs.   Qualificions Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or reled field; or equivalent experience. Minimum 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years leading multi-team engineering organizions building cloud-nive or hybrid solutions. Demonstred success leading architecture and delivery for complex, scalable systems across cloud and/or edge. Hands-on understanding of GenAI/LLMs, Agentic AI pterns, and code-generion tools; proven record of introducing modern engineering practices to accelere throughput. Strong experience with DevOps/CI-CD, containerizion and orchestrion (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), IaC (e.g., Terraform), and observability. Proven ability to own and manage a technology backlog, transle business outcomes to technical work, and prioritize for value. Exceptional stakeholder management and communicion skills; ability to influence across enterprise functions (Product, Marketing, IT, Security, Compliance). Preferred Master’s degree (e.g., MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Engineering Management). Experience in reguled healthcare, medical devices, or similarly reguled industries; familiarity with quality systems and software lifecycle standards (e.g., IEC 62304) is a plus. Practical experience with LLMOps/MLOps (e.g., model selection, fine-tuning, evaluion, prompt engineering, safety, and da governance). Exposure to vector dabases, AI orchestrion frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, LangChain), API geways, and event streaming technologies such as Kafka. Track record of developing plform capabilities (SDKs, temples, reference architectures) th enable self‑service and scale across product teams. Experience working with third‑party vendors, SIs, and managing technical contracts or sourcing negotiions. Tools & Technology Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP; serverless and containerized architectures Orchestrion & IaC: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps; automed testing, artifact management Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Dadog, OpenTelemetry AI/ML: LLMs, vector dabases, RAG, agent frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangChain), evaluion and safety tooling Da & Streaming: Kafka, Spark/Dabricks, event-driven architectures Security: SAST/DAST, SCA, secrets management, policy‑as‑code #software Apply Now Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com Follow your career aspirions to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company th can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us www.abbott.com, on Facebook www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal The base pay for this position is $148,700.00 – $297,300.00. In specific locions, the pay range may vary from the range posted. Apply Now