Data Administrator (System Reliability Engineer, Azure))

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott 

At Abbott, you can have a rewarding career, you can grow and learn, care for yourself and your family and have a healthy work life balance. You’ll have access to:

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll have access to: 

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. 

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO 

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution 

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. 

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.  

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity  

This position works out of either our Lake Forest, IL or St. Paul Minnesota offices in the Rapid Diagnostics division. The resource will be responsible for supporting BI systems and processes such as data pipelines from corporate systems using a combination of BW, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Databricks.

The Data Processing Admin provides support to the global business intelligence team and works across a cross functional team. The person hired will apply the knowledge to ensure that daily processes execute successfully, data is accurate and is fully aligned to the requirements. The admin ensures proper documentation of operational systems and provides level of support with day-to-day operations.

Other responsibilities are:

• Works with the teams to maintain data pipelines and schedules across multiple technologies ensuring timely/trusted/targeted data to data value consumers.

• Creates and/or maintains clear, well-constructed strategic technical documents for large or complex system architectures and pipelines using Spark, Python, Scala and other.

• Analyzes and troubleshoots BI processes; elicits, and documents technical requirements; identifies solutions, assesses feasibility, and provides best recommendations.

• Works directly with the development teams to ensure operational gateways and requirements to enter production systems are completed accurately.

• Collaborates with cross functional managers and supports department level initiatives.

• Ensures systems are compliant with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Uses a solid understanding and application of business concepts, procedures and practices.

• Performs work using existing standards, methodologies and processes and understands other systems/business processes.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or relevant work experience.

• Minimum 3 years of experience using Azure Data Lake, Data Factory and/or Data Bricks.

• Minimum 3 years of experience working in an IT environment independently and in teams.

• Required to travel up to 10%, including internationally.

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience with DevOps Version Control and Storyboarding.

• Experience with regulatory tools for document archiving and document control.

• Ability to perform in a regulated and/or validated environment.

• General knowledge of a variety of alternatives and their impact on business.

• Experience with other reporting tools such as Snowflake, BOBJ, Tableau

• Minimum 3 years of experience working with SAP technologies such as Hana or BW.

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $80,700.00 – $161,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

• production systems
• sap technologies
• azure data lake
• document control
• operational systems
• data processing
• scala
• business intelligence
• spark
• development
• python
• snowflake
• data lake
• devops
• devops version control
• archiving
• sap
• reporting tools
• tableau