Sr. Manager, IT Architecture

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international 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 a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity   

Our locations in St. Paul and Maple Grove, MN currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, IT Architecture within the Medical Device IT Product Technology organization. This role operates in a highly regulated, security-sensitive environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and is responsible for delivering platforms and services that enable connected products (IoT) and support customers and clinicians.

The Senior Manager works closely with business partners, R&D, and internal IT teams to design, standardize, and scale infrastructure capabilities that support secure, reliable, and compliant product ecosystems.

The Senior Manager, IT Architecture serves as the technical leader and people manager for the architecture function, responsible for defining infrastructure strategy, establishing standards, and ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and business objectives.

This role acts as a trusted advisor and decision authority across Product Technology, driving innovation while maintaining operational rigor.

What You’ll Work On

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and develop a team of architects supporting the Product Technology environment
• Define and communicate the architecture vision, roadmap, and standards
• Provide technical leadership across cloud, platform, and infrastructure strategy
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate

Architecture Governance

• Own and lead the Infrastructure Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes
• Ensure alignment with Product Security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and guardrails
• Oversee intake, evaluation, and approval of new infrastructure designs

Solution Design & Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor to R&D and application development teams
• Guide design of infrastructure for business partner applications and shared services
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and consumable by DevOps and application teams
• Collaborate closely with BRMs and Project Managers during intake and design phases

Cloud & Platform Innovation

• Lead the evaluation and onboarding of cloud providers and PaaS services (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Lead efforts to migrate and transform on-prem applications to cloud delivery.
• Drive adoption of modern platform capabilities (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation)
• Execute and oversee proof-of-concepts (PoCs) for new technologies
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML and generative AI capabilities within cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and Product Technology standards
• Partner with business and R&D teams to assess AI-driven solutions and define scalable, compliant infrastructure patterns to support AI workloads and data pipelines

Standards, Documentation & Enablement

• Develop infrastructure blueprints and reference architectures
• Document standards including:
  • Network design
  • Ingress/Egress patterns
  • Security and compliance requirements
• Enable smooth transition of designs to DevSecOps and operations teams for production

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with SRE, DevOps, Security, and application teams
• Work closely with business partners to align on strategic outcomes
• Manage vendor selection processes and relationships

• Design and architect infrastructure solutions for business partner applications and shared services
• Ensure architectures are standardized, reusable, and scalable across the platform
• Consult on application infrastructure aligned with business objectives
• Manage vendor technologies and evaluate new solutions
• Mentor and develop team members as a technical SME and leader
• Balance innovation with risk management and compliance adherence
• Apply Product Security and certification standards across all designs

Minimum Experience/Education Required

Minimum experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience, including architecture and engineering.
• Strong experience leading migration of on-premises systems to cloud-based environments.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Strong experience with:
  • CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Infrastructure design and architecture governance
• Experience operating in a regulated environment with audits and compliance controls
• 3–5+ years managing technical teams (architects or senior engineers)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across business and technical stakeholders

Preferred skills

• Experience optimizing and managing cloud cost (FinOps mindset)
• Experience in medical devices, healthcare, or other regulated industries
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills

Misc: This is an onsite role at Abbott locations in MN. This is not a remote role/opportunity.

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 aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. 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.

     

The base pay for this position is

$129,300.00 – $258,700.00

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

     

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

     

DIVISION:

BTS Business Technology Services

        

LOCATION:

United States > Minnesota > St. Paul > Lillehei : One Lillehei Plaza

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States > Maple Grove : 6820 Wedgwood Road N.

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

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)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf