Senior Cloud Application Architect - Healthcare Technology

Abbott Laboratories is seeking an Application Architect to design secure, scalable solutions that power innovative healthcare products. In this role, you'll define end-to-end application architectures, lead cloud-native and integration designs, and ensure systems meet performance, security, and regulatory requirements. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide development standards and best practices, and provide technical leadership while contributing to Abbott's mission of improving global health through advanced technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and document end-to-end application architectures for healthcare solutions

• Lead cloud-native and integration solution designs across platforms and services

• Ensure applications comply with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical designs

• Define and enforce development standards, patterns, and best practices

• Guide performance, scalability, and reliability improvements for critical systems

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams

• Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and platforms to support product roadmaps Required Skills

• Application architecture design

• Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Microservices and APIs

• Enterprise integration patterns

• Database design (SQL/No

• SQL)

• Security and compliance (HIPAA/FDA/21 CFR Part 11)

• Dev

• Ops and CI/CD pipelines

• Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Solution documentation and modeling (UML/Archimate)

• Performance and scalability optimization