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Director, Data and AI Architecture

AbbVie · Mettawa, IL · Full time · Information Technology

Posted Sep 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 22, 2026

Likely interview questions for this role

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About your past

Tell me about managing senior managers and directors rather than individual contributors.

What they are checking: The posting names managing teams of senior managers and directors across domains.

Tell me about developing a successor.

What they are checking: The posting names developing talent and creating a succession pipeline.

This is based at Mettawa. How does that fit your life?

What they are checking: Honest fit with the location the posting states.

What would you do

How do you decide where AI genuinely helps and where it is a distraction?

What they are checking: The role's own title, and the honest answer separates an architect from a follower.

How do you explain a technical problem to the C-suite?

What they are checking: The posting names communicating problems in terms understandable at all levels including the C-suite.

How do you run a mix of employees, contractors, matrixed teams and managed service providers?

What they are checking: The posting names exactly that resource mix across teams of at least fifteen.

How do you build a partnership with a functional leader who does not want architecture involved?

What they are checking: The posting names building collaborative partnership with functional domain senior leadership.

About the work

Tell me about building a two to three year technology strategy that survived contact with the business.

What they are checking: The posting frames the role around a two to three year strategy assessed over that horizon.

How do you manage a budget of this size and know it is being spent well?

What they are checking: The posting names experience managing a budget of at least fifteen million dollars.

How do you decide what to standardize and what to let each domain do its own way?

What they are checking: The permanent architecture judgment, and it decides whether the strategy is adopted.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

Provide leadership to develop technology strategies that support business goals. This role will have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain. Objectives: Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain senior leadership. Develop and guide delivery of comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs. Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior domain leadership and results assess from a 2-3 year perspective. Responsibilities: • Strategy & Influence: Works across multiple business and technology to make significant contributions to development of a 2-3 year strategy. Develops, adapts and executes strategies to achieve key objectives. • Process Improvement & Optimization: Makes significant contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements. • People Management: Responsible for managing a team(s) of senior managers and directors within multiple business and/or technology domains. • Impact: Make decisions that have an effect on financial, employee and/or public relations posture of Abbvie. • Resource Management: Responsible for making significant contributions to the development resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domain. • Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leadership and vice presidents. Interactions focus on top priority project and influencing strategic decisions. Interacts well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators. • Culture: Consistently demonstrate Abbvie's Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Effectively manages performance, provides timely feedback, appropriately rewards and recognizes valuable achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies. This role has accountability for the performance and results strategically important functions. • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience. Masters degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred. • Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall AbbVie goals. • Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Experience managing teams of at least 15 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors and managed service providers. • Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to all levels of the organization, including C-Suite. • Thought leader within multiple technology and/or business domains. • Experience managing a budget of at least $15 million. • Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred. Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​ • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​ • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​ • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. ​ Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​ AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html