Senior Architect

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

A design professional who, working with little or no supervision, applies scientific knowledge, architectural knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to complete assignments related to a specific technical field or discipline.  A Senior Architect has general knowledge of other related engineering disciplines beyond their own area of expertise. 

Responsibilities:

•Responsibilities of this architectural grade level inherently include and expand upon the responsibilities established for lower architectural grade levels.

•Responsible for compliance with applicable policies and procedures.

•Independently plans and conducts small-to medium-size assigned projects within specialty requiring conventional types of plans, investigations, and/or equipment.  Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and meets deadlines.  Responsible for achieving the project's financial targets in support of business objectives.  Maintains project controls and reporting for cost, scope, and schedule; develops execution strategy including procurement. Balances multiple demands.

•Produces unique and cost-effective results.  Establishes alternate use possibilities and incorporates flexibility; balances costs with benefits provided; oversees design work of internal and external consultants. Creates/modified designs for intermediate problems.  Integrates financial with technical data.  Analyzes complex interdisciplinary problems and identifies their impact; establishes probabilities; draws conclusions reflecting broad business needs.

•Represents architectural on corporate task forces. Identifies full range of customer/client needs and proposes solutions to address them; makes alterations in designs to better meet (recognized or unrecognized) customer needs.  Monitors the improvement of other architects/engineers and may participate in the evaluation of assigned staff/project team members and in the identification of development needs. May supervise other architects or engineers.

•Bachelors Degree in Architecture or closely related discipline is desired, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence, with a desired 5+ years of significant architectural experience.  A post-graduate education/degree is desired.

•Has demonstrated competency within a discipline.

•Possesses a strong technical knowledge and application of concepts, practices, and procedures.  Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data involves multiple competing factors.  Demonstrates judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

•Interacts well with diverse groups within architectural/engineering and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

•Listens to and understands others' points of view and articulates tactfully and respectfully one's own perspective orally, in writing, and in presentations.

•Works well with other architects/engineers in a collaborative, fast-paced goal-driven environment.

•Possesses interpersonal skills to negotiate and reconcile differences.

•Has a technical background in life science laboratories (preferred), health care, medical devices, pharmaceutical, biologics, or similar industries.

•Has demonstrated expert competency with Revit and AutoCAD.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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 short-term incentive programs. ​

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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. ​

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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s 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.