Senior Enterprise Architect

North Chicago, Illinois

Salary Details: $133500.00 - 253500.00 a year

AbbVie
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Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at . on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .

Job Description
This position defines, designs, and implements SAP centric business technology solutions within multiple strategic initiatives focusing on enablement, automation, data insights and Artificial Intelligence augmentation. This role will focus on architecting scalable, high-performance analytical solutions that support business transformation and decision making. The initial emphasis will be on Finance, with opportunities to expand AI and data-driven capabilities across other enterprise functions.

The candidate will partner with business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical architecture solution and act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on analytics strategy and best practices, tying them to the overall Enterprise Architectures.

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with business leaders and functional teams as trusted technical advisor to understand strategic business objectives and analytics requirements.
  • Drive the solution design, development and implementation of key analytics-driven initiatives leveraging SAP BW4/HANA, Native HANA, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, BTP and Analytics Cloud solutions. Immediate heavy emphasis on Finance analytics solution, including planning/forecasting and consolidation.
  • Advances technical expertise within function. Proactively demonstrates leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management. Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assesses current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.
  • Review enterprise data architecture in highly visible projects and ensure designed architecture provides seamless integration across SAP and non-SAP data sources.
  • Ensures quality and effectiveness of major analytics project plans within SAP function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
  • Responsible for performance optimization of SAP analytical applications for speed, accuracy, and efficiency, ensuring adherence to best practices.
  • Advocate for advanced analytics, AI/ML and predictive modeling capabilities for reporting. Practical knowledge of HANA PAL, Python, or SAP AI Core is a plus.
  • Sources and identifies emerging SAP and analytics technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives.
  • Shapes relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and industry peers in accordance with Abbvie Values to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
  • Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable data governance standards and data security.
This role will require 3 days in the Waukegan office.Candidates who are not local or within a commutable distance would be expected to relocate.

Qualifications
Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree with 9years experience; Master's Degree with 8years experience; PhD with 4years experience.
  • 7+ years hands-on experience in SAP analytics technologies, including BW4/HANA, Analytics Cloud, S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, Native HANA and BTP platform.
  • Well versed with Data warehousing concepts with a minimum 2 end-to-end SAP BW, Native HANA or Analytics Cloud implementations.
  • Strong understanding of Finance processes, reporting and planning in SAP environment. Demonstrated knowledge of other business processes such as Order to Cash, Procure to Pay or Supply Chain.
  • Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Datasphere is a plus.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML and their application in analytics.
  • Proven ability to innovate with a history of new or improved technology solutions with remarkable impact on company productivity.
  • Interacts well with diverse groups within function, able to influence and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
Beneficial:
  • Experience in SAP Financial Planning (BPC/SAC) implementation or Group Reporting is highly preferred.
  • Strong SQL, data modeling, API and reporting development skills.
  • Practical knowledge of HANA PAL, Python, or SAP AI Core is a plus.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:
  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms
Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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Date Posted: 28 March 2025
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