Application Technology Lead (manufacturing)

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 Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA or Waukegan, IL locations within the Business Solutions & Service IT Organization.

As the Application Technol

Working at Abbott

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

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA or Waukegan, IL locations within the Business Solutions & Service IT Organization.

As the Application Technology Lead (Manufacturing) you’ll have the chance to implement and build a technology focused team within our TS3 Manufacturing IT Organization. The role will focus on Manufacturing Execution System BASIS and Platform technologies delivery and support. You will work with our business customers to ensure key technologies are delivering required value to the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and maintain multiple DEV, QA and prod environments for a J2EE application (FTPC -MES by Rockwell Automation) running on JBOSS and tomcat. Maintain the same code base across all environments with documented or automated deployment processes.
• Deploy and maintain various application components on JBOSS, IIS and tomcat technologies. Monitor and maintain these technologies at optimal performance levels and manages SLAs for the functionality.
• Maintain and manage various application related services like data transfer and data purge at optimal levels.
• Collaborate and partner with infrastructure teams (network, Oracle, Windows /Linux) to deliver and deploy MES and other manufacturing systems.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a DR (Disaster Recovery) plan for MES and related systems. Lead yearly testing plans for DR set-up by collaborating with infra and business teams.
• Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system /platform plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
• Maintain server infrastructure compliant to Cyber security standards. Manage folder and user permission standards for access to various file types. Define plans and paths to remediate if not compliant.
• Manage semi-annual code pushes for enhancements to all QA and prod environments and manage related documentation in a validated environment
• Create and maintain robust and validated processes for making changes / incidents to core MES components (Linux /Windows/JBOSS) and application related changes. Create and manage proper documentation for DWI (departmental work instructions) and SOPs and processes should be followed by him and the team.
• Responsible for high system up-time of MES system and other related manufacturing system integrations with SAP, Windchill etc. Provide leadership on outage calls and work with infra team to restore application functionality quickly and seamlessly.
• Set-up monitoring for system uptime on application servers and web servers and application components like JBOSS, tomcat by using dashboards and scripting and reduce critical line down incidents.
• Ability to triage performance issues on JBOSS, Linux and other systems by partnering with infra groups like Linux, network, Citrix and windows teams.
• Collaborate with operations and technology leaders on system upgrades and enhancements.
• Create a compelling roadmap for system upgrades of the MES system and making sure it is well documented and complete within the guidelines of SLC and within timelines.
• Create and manage projects for system upgrades and system set-up by collaborating various stake holders.
• Support Design and Development of enhancements to Rockwell FTPC platform including reports
• Responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies, working principally with senior management.
• Acts as the principal designer for major systems and their subsystems utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.
• Integrate manufacturing systems with other applications and shop floor equipment
• ITIL process understanding and deploy implement IT changes to manufacturing systems
• Work with pnuts and java code to program business rules and enhancements
• Level 3 support for Manufacturing Execution Systems

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline
• 8+ years’ experience in developing (Java, Pnuts) and deploying solutions
• 8+ years’ experience with developing manufacturing solutions in FTPC preferred
• 5+ years’ experience with writing complex queries in SQL
• 3+ years’ experience in managing production systems
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science (preferred)
• Detailed understand of Cloud architecture, and infrastructure tools that support these technologies.
• 5+ years' experience deploying applications and code with various application technologies like JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere, tomcat and IIS.
• 3+ years creating shell scripts to automate deploying code and monitoring applications or using tools like Splunk for log management.
• Create, manage and monitor various environments like dev, QA and production from an application landscape and responsible for uptime SLAs.
• 9+ Years experience in IT application management or devops role and setting up related processes.
• Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ, authoring validation documents and execution mostly for code deployment.
• Manage a team of 3-5 direct/indirect reports.
• 15% Travel Required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Maintain and managing applications in Life Sciences industry with all related regulations and documentation
• Strong understanding of java and J2EE frameworks from an application standpoint
• Understanding and administration of middle-ware technologies like TIBCO, BIZTALK or JMS messaging services
• Developing reports/dashboards in PowerBI leveraging fabric.
• Understanding of MES and manufacturing preferably FTPC from Rockwell automation or Camstar.
• ITIL process in high regulated environments
• Familiarity with large scale ERP/MES Systems deployments
• Vendor management experience
• PMP certification will be nice to have
• Experience with global scale manufacturing systems (i.e. Rockwell) development, integration, and support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

MISC:

• This is an onsite role; this is NOT a remote role/opportunity.

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ogy Lead (Manufacturing) you’ll have the chance to implement and build a technology focused team within our TS3 Manufacturing IT Organization. The role will focus on Manufacturing Execution System BASIS and Platform technologies delivery and support. You will work with our business customers to ensure key technologies are delivering required value to the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and maintain multiple DEV, QA and prod environments for a J2EE application (FTPC -MES by Rockwell Automation) running on JBOSS and tomcat. Maintain the same code base across all environments with documented or automated deployment processes.
• Deploy and maintain various application components on JBOSS, IIS and tomcat technologies. Monitor and maintain these technologies at optimal performance levels and manages SLAs for the functionality.
• Maintain and manage various application related services like data transfer and data purge at optimal levels.
• Collaborate and partner with infrastructure teams (network, Oracle, Windows /Linux) to deliver and deploy MES and other manufacturing systems.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a DR (Disaster Recovery) plan for MES and related systems. Lead yearly testing plans for DR set-up by collaborating with infra and business teams.
• Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system /platform plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
• Maintain server infrastructure compliant to Cyber security standards. Manage folder and user permission standards for access to various file types. Define plans and paths to remediate if not compliant.
• Manage semi-annual code pushes for enhancements to all QA and prod environments and manage related documentation in a validated environment
• Create and maintain robust and validated processes for making changes / incidents to core MES components (Linux /Windows/JBOSS) and application related changes. Create and manage proper documentation for DWI (departmental work instructions) and SOPs and processes should be followed by him and the team.
• Responsible for high system up-time of MES system and other related manufacturing system integrations with SAP, Windchill etc. Provide leadership on outage calls and work with infra team to restore application functionality quickly and seamlessly.
• Set-up monitoring for system uptime on application servers and web servers and application components like JBOSS , tomcat by using dashboards and scripting and reduce critical line down incidents.
• Ability to triage performance issues on JBOSS, Linux and other systems by partnering with infra groups like Linux, network, Citrix and windows teams.
• Collaborate with operations and technology leaders on system upgrades and enhancements.
• Create a compelling roadmap for system upgrades of the MES system and making sure it is well documented and complete within the guidelines of SLC and within timelines.
• Create and manage projects for system upgrades and system set-up by collaborating various stake holders.
• Support Design and Development of enhancements to Rockwell FTPC platform including reports
• Responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies, working principally with senior management.
• Acts as the principal designer for major systems and their subsystems utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.
• Integrate manufacturing systems with other applications and shop floor equipment
• ITIL process understanding and deploy implement IT changes to manufacturing systems
• Work with pnuts and java code to program business rules and enhancements
• Level 3 support for Manufacturing Execution Systems

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or similar engineering discipline
• Understanding of java and J2EE frameworks from an application standpoint
• 8+ years experience in developing (Java , Pnuts) and deploying solutions
• 8+ years experience with developing manufacturing solutions in FTPC preferred or Camstar
• 5+ years experience with writing complex queries in SQL
• 3+ years experience in managing production systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science (preferred)
• Detailed understand of Cloud architecture, and infrastructure tools that support these technologies.
• 5+ years' experience deploying applications and code with various application technologies like JBOSS, WebLogic, WebSphere, tomcat and IIS.
• 3+ years creating shell scripts to automate deploying code and monitoring applications or using tools like Splunk for log management.
• Create, manage and monitor various environments like dev, QA and production from an application landscape and responsible for uptime SLAs.
• 9+ Years experience in IT application management or  devops role and setting up related processes.
• Experience with IQ/OQ/PQ, authoring validation documents and execution mostly for code deployment.
• 15% Travel Required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Maintain and managing applications in Life Sciences industry with all related regulations and documentation
• Understanding and administration of middle-ware technologies like TIBCO, BIZTALK or JMS messaging services
• Understanding of MES and manufacturing preferably FTPC from Rockwell automation
• ITIL process in high regulated environments
• Familiarity with large scale ERP/MES Systems deployments
• Vendor management experience
• PMP certification will be nice to have
• Experience with global scale manufacturing systems (i.e. Rockwell) development, integration, and support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The base pay for this position is $128,000.00 – $256,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.