Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LEAD - DIGITAL AND E-COMMERCE

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 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

 

ABBOTT IRELAND

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritional products. In Ireland, Abbott employs almost 4,000 people across nine sites.

We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo.

Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

 

ABBOTT BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AT CHERRYWOOD

Abbott Information Technology (IT) is responsible for delivering Information technology solutions and services to over 130+ countries globally. 

To support this global footprint, Abbott IT is building a new team in Ireland located in Cherrywood, Dublin. The newly established hub will be a strategic location

for technology talent, delivering regional programs and supporting global operations for critical services.

 

ROLE DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LEAD expected to lead a development pod building best in class digital and e-commerce solutions for Abbott’s Diabetes Care Division based on Adobe Experience Manager, Magento, CloudSense and MuleSoft integration. 

 

The Software Engineering Lead ensures the solution design outlined by the Solution architect is delivered in line with best practices, embedding our standards of quality, reusability, scalability and configurability. 

The lead works with the business systems analyst, project manager and solution architect to deliver on our commitments to our business partners.  This role is also key to the testing issue resolution process, providing a key end to end knowledge of the solutions built and root cause analysis. 

The Agile Technical lead will manage true end-to-end development and testing of software products in an agile lifecycle.  

The technical lead will guide and coach the senior developers and developers (internal and external) on standards, code quality and continuous improvement opportunities. 

 

 

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:  

  • Partner with the Business Systems Analyst and Solution Architect to fully understand the business requirements and the design principles to be followed. 
  • Ensuring the definition of done is met for all software delivery by the development team including code quality, reusability, configurability and scalability. 
  • Lead technical discussions on solutioning options available to meet the business outcome on multiple projects at the same time 
  • Leads and guides the technical direction of a team of developers while retaining their hands-on development skills by adding to the team’s delivery. 
  • Establish and implement contemporary digital and e-commerce architectures capable of meeting a continuously changing industry and market environment to support Abbott’s strategic goals. 
  • Ability to translate business requirements into system level design and detailed technical architecture documents. 
  • Help identify opportunities for and drive Continuous Improvement activities.
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in delivering IT solutions in a digital and e-commerce landscape
  • Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies
  • Strong experience with modern web technologies: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS / Sass and market-leading frameworks (React is a preference)
  • Strong experience (at least 7+ years') Java / PHP / React Development experience
  • Technical Leadership experience
  • Good understanding of design principles
  • Experience implementing header less front end architectures for Web and Mobile (Adobe Experience Manager and Magento experience preferred)
  • Experience with API integration platforms (MuleSoft / AWS Lambda preferred)
  • Strong experience with solutions respecting security and data privacy (GDPR, CCPA) and PCI compliance requirements
  • Worked on medium to large scale projects and want to take your impact to the global scale.  Ability towork across multi-functional teams and multiple applications using the best each to meet business needs.
  • A strong background in technical solution design
  • Good experience with Agile SCRUM development
  • Advanced knowledge of development in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment.
  • Experience developing or working with Cloud-based technologies such as Amazon Web Services is highly desired.
  • Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working in matrix global organization with working in virtual geographically disparate teams being the norm