Senior Engineer, Technology II (File Transfer Engineer)

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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, FacebookInstagramX and YouTube.

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer for the MOVEIt Platform, you’ll tackle complex challenges as you develop and diversify your professional experiences while helping others grow and develop their skills. You will be working with network engineers and business users across functional disciplines.   You will be responsible for managing a team of administrators, developing platform road maps, and presenting technical information to cross-functional teams, ensuring security and compliance. 

 In this role, you’ll also be responsible for:  

  • Creating platform lifecycle roadmaps and capacity management plans 
  • Assessing and prioritizing implementation of newly released vulnerabilities 
  • Managing a team of 10 MOVEit administrators daily operational activities 
  • Engaging in customer consultation and education pertaining to MOVEit capabilities  
  • Maintaining compliance with IT infrastructure change policies 
  • Formulating responses to audit inquiries 
  • Defining integration requirements with systems used to manage MOVEit recertifications 
  • Implementing strategies for introducing new system capabilities and processes 
  • Supporting the development and monitoring of workgroup budget, reviewing MSP and license spend on a regular basis 
  • Presenting KPIs and operational updates to upper management 

Tools and skills you will use in this role:  

  • M365 productivity tools, such as Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Power Platform, etc.  
  • ServiceNow CMDB and ticketing systems 
  • Working knowledge of SQL used to define source to target mappings between MOVEit and downstream systems

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree with 7 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 6 years’ experience; PhD with 2 years’ experience.
  • Experience with Managed File Transfer (MFT/SFTP/FTPS), secure data movement, and workflow design 
  • Experience with encryption and how different environments support encryption requirements (AWS S3, Azure, etc.) 
  • Understanding of networking concepts and troubleshooting (firewalls, load balancers 
  • Previous experience managing a shared platform  

Preferred:

  • Demonstrable expertise in screening new talent and managing technical resources, clearly defining expectations for delivery and performance 
  • Previous experience supporting a file transfer platform such as MOVEit or Kiteworks 
  • Previous experience managing a shared platform  

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 thisposting 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 anduntil 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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