Manager Advanced Analytics Cloud

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Primary Job Function:

The central Advanced Analytics team at the Abbott Established Pharma Division’s (EPD) headquarters in Basel helps define and lead the transformation towards becoming a global, data-driven company with the help of data and modern data technologies (e.g., Machine Learning, Deep Learning). To us, Advanced Analytics is an important lever to reach our business targets, now and in the future; It helps differentiate ourselves from our competition and ensure sustainable revenue growth at optimal margins. Hence the central AA team is an integral part of the Strategy Management Office at EPD that has a very close link and regular interactions with the EPD Senior Leadership Team.

With the above requirements in mind, EPD is looking to fill a role of a Manager AA Cloud, reporting to the Director of Advanced Analytics. He/she will lead a team of Engineers, Cloud Architects, DevOps and MLOps experts, located both in Basel and Pakistan and is responsible for developing, running and continuously refining an easy-to-use, modern and lean/cost-effective cloud engineering for Abbott EPD.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the cloud engineering team in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions.

• Develop and implement cloud strategies that align with business goals and objectives.

• Drive adoption and broaden usage of cloud environment within EPD and Abbott.

• Translate needs into cloud platform capability priorities and own implementation.

• Own the AA Cloud platform; Ensure the compliance, security, scalability, and reliability of cloud infrastructure.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cloud solutions with existing systems.

• Monitor and optimize cloud performance, cost, and usage.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest cloud technologies and best practices.

• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Minimum Education:

• Master in relevant quantitative degree (e.g. Engineering, Physics, Computer Science)

Minimum Experience/Training Required:

• At least 6-8 years of relevant working experience.

• Team management experience in the area of cloud and solutions architecture.

• Strong architectural skills to enable scalable cloud application and infrastructure.

• Experience in working with and leading external teams to help implement solutions, ensuring quality deployments.

• Proven ability to work across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, extracting information and identifying linkages across disparate data sets.

• Strong experience in multiple database technologies such as: Distributed Processing (Spark, etc.) Traditional RDBMS (MS SQL Server, etc.) MPP (AWS Redshift, etc.), etc.

• Strong understanding of Information Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of data.

• High proficiency in programming languages e.g. Python.

• Extensive experience in Cloud platform technologies (preferably AWS) and all its services and ecosystem.

• Strong experience in traditional data warehousing / ETL tools.

• Proficiency in architecting, building and maintaining cost-efficient and scalable cloud environments.

• Ability to understand business and create cloud-bases solutions to fill those objectives.

• Result-driven, be an analytical and creative thinker.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and bring business and data science closer together - consultancy experience a plus.

• Fluency in English a must, additional languages a plus.

Do you like the sound of this job and think you’ve got what it takes? Then send us your CV today. We look forward to receiving your application as pdf.

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