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Senior Engineer, Technology I

AbbVie

North Chicago, ILJob$97K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$97K/yr
Location
North Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Engineer, Technology conceives, designs, engineers, and implements technology solutions for scientific or business problems, collaborating with technology and business groups. The role may align with information, software, data, or infrastructure and contributes to technology advancement. It also provides technical leadership, mentors less experienced staff, and manages project scope, budgets, and schedules.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Theoretical and Practical UnderstandingTechnology Solution ImplementationEnglish CommunicationDevOpsAWSFull Stack DevelopmentPython.NETNode.jsMentoring

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree With 6 Years Experience, Master's Degree With 5 Years Experience, or PhD With 0 Years Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/) Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvie/) , X (https://twitter.com/abbvie) and YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie)

Job Description

Work collaboratively with technology and business groups to conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, and technology solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems. Investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Contribute to advancement of technology in area of expertise. Develop productive collaborations and communications with other groups across multiple disciplines. Technology Engineers will be aligned to a specific area: Information, Software, Data, or Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, or technology solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas. Routinely demonstrate initiative and creativity in developing technology solutions.

  • Serve as technical expert or lead projects/programs and technical staff to develop, test and implement significant new products, or operational improvements or devise new approaches to problems at the division/business unit.

  • Analyze and resolve technical problems using analytical problem-solving methods/techniques and associated tools/devices.

  • Contribute to advancement of your own function by studying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and computing equipment; participate in educational opportunities and professional organizations.

  • Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.

  • Be highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with your supervisor. Be accountable for total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Be accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control.

  • May initiate new areas of investigation that are meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a scientific or business activity.

  • Provide technical leadership and mentor and consult with less experienced staff in planning, methods, procedures, standards, and best practices.

  • Maintain relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors in accordance with AbbVie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision, and goals of the organization.

  • Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years of experience; Master’s Degree with 5 years of experience; PhD with 0 years of experience.

  • Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of own discipline.

  • Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business.

  • Excellent written and oral English communication skills.

Preferred:

  • Experience in DevOps (AWS)

  • Full Stack experience (Python, .Net, Nodejs)

  • Served as mentor in current or former roles

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 short-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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Salary: $96,500

How this job compares

Set against the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$97K/yr
  • Illinois median$115–198K/yr643 salary ranges
  • US median$134–215K/yr32,917 salary ranges

This rate, $97K, is 38% below the Illinois median midpoint ($156K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 768 open Software Engineer jobs in Illinois and 41,225 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,478 postings).
Education
14,294 of the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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