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.

The Director of Mobile Applications will be a part of Abbott Heart Failure’s Digital Solutions organization driving the design and development of mobile applications in support of our medical devices and customers. This role has no initial direct reports, but you will be responsible for identifying the needs of your department, designing an organization to meet those needs, and working with our talent acquisition resources to staff your team.

This is a deeply technical and hands-on role which presents an exciting opportunity to use your experience and passion to create your team, design an application architecture, develop a culture of engineering excellence, and launch a product portfolio that delights our customers and saves lives through the proper use of our medical devices.

Qualifications Include:

• Ability to quickly learn new business domains, strategies, and challenges in an effort to design and develop mobile application solutions to enable the business to exceed its objectives and delight customers
• Ability to design, staff, and lead an organization capable of developing and supporting these mobile applications
• Ability to design, develop, and implement software engineering practices, processes, and tools required to the meet the needs of the organization
• Ability to demonstrate accountability as a leader of a department and a product portfolio
• Passion for learning combined with exceptional problem solving, critical thinking, presentation, and communication skills
• Ability to design and develop mobile application architectures and platforms that can be used to launch several products using a single platform
• Relentless focus on and passion for product quality through a commitment to test automation, adherence to process and regulations, and delivering amazing user experiences
• Ability to work well in a collaborative environment with geographically dispersed and remote resources
• Ability to collaborate with and influence colleagues across other departments to meet the business challenges and overcome obstacles using a team-based approach

Education and Experience You’ll Bring

Required

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or closely related discipline with 8 or more years of related work experience.
• Advanced experience with mobile development languages, practices, tools, platforms, and product launches (stores).
• Proven ability to design, staff, and lead high-performing technical teams (internal or external) through agile, outcome-driven development.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud platforms, CI/CD, API architectures, and scalable code practices.
• Automated UI and API Testing experience.

Preferred

• 10+ years of experience in software development with at least 3-5 years of mobile software experience.
• Experience developing software for medical devices or in a regulated industry (e.g. FDA, Aerospace, Defense) strongly preferred.

• Experience testing global solutions including translation and localization.

The base pay for this position is $147,300.00 – $294,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.