Abbott Laboratories Hiring for Software Architect at Alameda, CA, United States Full Time

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Were always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

Youll also have access to :

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great 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 that 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 position works out of our Alameda, CA location in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division, where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

Were revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The Software Architect will work with a modern tech stack on mobile and cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 49 countries.

The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.

This person should have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team.

Highly sought-after qualities include versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members.

The Software Architect will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices. #software

What youll work on

• Architect and Design Software Solutions for Mobile, Data and Cloud platforms
• Focused on support for Mobile and Data solutions
• Support software architecture best practices across multiple projects
• Define and Implement Architecture and Design Patterns for the supported systems
• Design and implement services and components for supported architectures
• Support Mobile Development and Architecture using Hybrid Technologies (React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) as well as Native Technologies (Swift, Kotlin)
• Architecture, Design and Support Software Systems for Data Collection and Analytics
• Architect, design and implement the cybersecurity for the supported solutions
• Identify and solve design and technology issues within the current systems
• Design, Improve and Support product test, build and deployment processes and pipelines.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to design, develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems
• Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable solutions.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to to shape and define API contracts
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Create software architecture and design documentation for the supported solutions and overall best practices and patterns
• Support solution groups with technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
• Provide Architecture and Technical Knowledge training and support for the solution groups.
• Develop good working relations with the other solution teams and groups, such as Engineering, Marketing, Product, Test, QA.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
• Must have architectures principles, patterns, framework and blueprints experience.
• Proven experience with architecture and design for mobile, data and / or cloud systems
• Proved Experience with mobile technologies and languages for iOS and Android : React Native, Swift, Kotlin, JNI, C / C++ (on mobile)
• Familiar with data architecture and design practices, for both local device data solutions as well as enterprise / cloud data solution.
• Familiar with database technologies, both relational (e.g. MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite) as well as non-relational (MongoDB, RealmDB, CosmosDB), for both client and server side solutions.
• Familiar with Analytics Products (Firebase, Segment IO, Sentry etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience with CICD Products (AzureDevOps, CircleCI, Harness, Jenkins, Fastlane)
• Preferred experience with Deployment Support Products (Microsoft App Center, TestFlight, PlayStore)
• Preferred experience with Development Support Products (Flipper, Crashlytics, Code Analytics)
• Familiar with Cybersecurity best practices and solutions for supported architecture. Familiar with cryptography concepts.
• Preferred experience with application security aspects of obfuscation and code protection.
• Proven experience implementing mobile or cloud solutions or components.
• Preferred to have familiarity with multiple operating systems (iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows)
• Experience with documenting architectural and deign decisions.
• Experience with working and supporting with multiple development team members.
• Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
• A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level

What We Offer

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer :

• Training and career development , with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully : ? www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com / Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $118,100.00 $236,100.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.