AbbVie

Domain Architect, Applications and Integration

AbbVie • $130K — $155K *
North Chicago, IL 60064In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 9 years' experience; or Master's with 8 years; or PhD with 4 years.
  • 9+ years of progressive experience in enterprise or solution architecture focused on integration.
  • Deep experience with enterprise API management or integration platforms like MuleSoft or Apigee.
  • Thorough understanding of enterprise integration patterns including synchronous and asynchronous styles.
  • Experience establishing API governance from scratch with practical design standards and usage.
  • Proven ability to resolve interface duplication and integrate architecture with data platform principles.
  • Skilled in authoring and publishing architecture standards that drive team adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Advance program objectives by resolving high-impact technical issues and making recommendations on technical disputes.
  • Manage design reviews, enforce architecture compliance, and coordinate remediation for integration initiatives.
  • Lead cross-functional training, develop materials, and enforce standard application of API design patterns.
  • Drive continuous improvement of architecture frameworks based on interface failures and establish integration standards.
  • Own the technical strategy for complex integration programs and maintain relationships across commercial systems.
  • Develop and maintain a roadmap for integration middleware and custom applications.
  • Establish API governance and standards to promote interface reusability and catalog discoverability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical/dental/vision insurance.
  • Paid time off including vacation and sick leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Domain Architect, Applications and Integration owns the ecosystem roadmap, architecture standards, and design review operations for integration of middleware, API governance, custom applications, and cross-platform interoperability in Global Commercial Business Technology Services. API contracts, agentic patterns and registry, event schemas, and integration patterns published here bind the CRM estate, the content estate, the field operations estate, and every interface into the enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities:
  • Advance program objectives and resolve high-impact technical issues. Advise on and validate sophisticated programs and analyses, orchestrate cross-functional technical efforts, and provide recommendations on ambiguous technical questions. Adjudicate interface ownership when two teams build competing APIs for the same entity, and rule on point-to-point versus middleware versus native platform integration.
  • Manage design reviews and enforce architecture compliance. Lead Domain Review Board reviews for integration and custom application initiatives and serve as the standing integration reviewer for cross-domain reviews, where this domain's findings recur most often. Participate in weekly project request intake, review solutions against the architecture review standards, and coordinate remediation with named owners and dates.
  • Lead cross-functional training and translate strategy into blueprints. Train and develop training materials for delivery teams on API design standards, event schema contracts, and the integration playbook so patterns are applied consistently rather than reinvented, and resolve design conflicts across domain boundaries. This includes active upskilling for internal talent and developing hiring standards.
  • Drive continuous improvement of architecture frameworks. Iterate integration standards from real interface failures and review findings, benchmarking against the enterprise API standards set by Enterprise Architecture. Own integration platform version currency and end-of-life positions, including API version deprecation exposure and legacy ETL retirement. Maintain the cross-domain dependency tracker.
  • Own technical strategy for major, complex programs. Own the integration architecture workstream of major programs, including the global cross-domain integrations: API specifications, event schemas, agentic ecosystems, and service level agreements between all adjacent commercial systems.
  • Own the applications and integration ecosystem roadmap. Publish and maintain the multi-year roadmap for integration middleware and the custom application estate: target integration platform posture, evaluate and promote evolution of our integration and ESB and ETL platforms and offerings.
  • Establish and operate API governance. Own API design standards, versioning and deprecation policy, contract-first development, catalog and discoverability, security patterns, and the criteria that make an interface reusable rather than project-specific. Author reference integration architectures covering synchronous API, asynchronous and event-driven, batch and file, and platform-native integration, with clear guidance on when each applies.
  • Own the data platform interface contracts. Own the commercial side of every interface with data and AI platforms. Negotiate and document the contract, hold the federation-over-copy rule so commercial systems consume mastered data by reference, and escalate genuine conflicts through governance rather than resolving them by exception.
  • Run interface rationalization and build, buy, or wait analysis. Identify and resolve duplicate interfaces: multiple APIs for the same entity, overlapping pipelines, and point-to-point connections that should be mediated. Run this as a standing program rather than a project; it is the most direct duplicate-capability reduction lever in the portfolio. Lead build, buy, or wait evaluations with supporting total cost of ownership analysis.
  • Own custom application and automation standards, vendors, and mentorship. Set design, integration, security, and supportability standards for the custom application estate, including handover requirements for externally built applications, and own commercial workflow automation and RPA governance. Serve as primary architecture relationship owner for established ESB, ETL, and interoperability, running the quarterly strategic review cadence and governing external and third-party connectivity. Provide architectural direction and mentorship to product and application architects and to solutions architects.


Qualifications

Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field with 9 years of experience; OR Master's Degree with 8 years of experience; OR PhD with 4 years of experience.
  • Respective years of progressive experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture, with demonstrated experience focused on integration architecture or API platform architecture at enterprise scale.
  • Deep architectural experience with at least one enterprise API management or integration platform (MuleSoft, Apigee, or equivalent), including API gateway design, policy enforcement, and platform operations.
  • Demonstrated command of enterprise integration patterns across styles: synchronous API, asynchronous messaging and event-driven, batch and file, and platform-native integration, with the judgment to select between them rather than defaulting to one.
  • Experience establishing API governance in an organization that did not have it: design standards, contract-first practice, versioning and deprecation policy, and a catalog that teams actually use.
  • Demonstrated experience rationalizing duplicate or overlapping interfaces across teams without stopping their release schedules, and working understanding of the boundary between integration architecture and data platform architecture, including system-of-record discipline and master data consumption by federation.
  • Demonstrated experience authoring and publishing architecture standards, reference architectures, or roadmaps that delivery teams actually adopted, and leading architecture review (DRB, ARB, or equivalent) as a governance participant rather than a gatekeeper.
  • Ability to reason about trade-offs with evidence rather than opinion, to identify reuse versus new build, and to produce a decision record covering alternatives, rationale, and risks. Ability to influence peer architects and delivery teams without direct authority; this role's standards are enforced across domains it does not own.
  • Experience in a regulated industry (pharmaceutical, healthcare, or financial services), with working understanding of the compliance implications of data integration, API security, consent propagation, and external system connectivity.

Preferred:
  • Master's Degree or a broad architecture certification (TOGAF, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or equivalent) preferred.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture, with at least 5 years focused on integration architecture or API platform architecture at enterprise scale.
  • MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent; experience with both MuleSoft and Apigee in the same estate including a consolidation or division-of-responsibility decision; experience with event streaming and schema governance as a consumer of a platform owned by another team; experience with patient services or comparable custom, integration-heavy, regulated application portfolios; experience with cloud-native architecture, serverless patterns, container orchestration, or AI and agent integration patterns including MCP.


Additional Information

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.

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Learn more about AbbVie
Size
50,000 employees
Market Cap
$288.5 billion
Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
Revenue
$45.8 billion
NASDAQ
ABBV
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