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AbbVie hires Operations professionals across supply chain, manufacturing, and quality functions tied to its global pharmaceutical and biologics pipeline. The company has a consistent track record of sponsoring work visas for qualified Operations candidates, covering both nonimmigrant and immigrant pathways.
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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.
Job Description
The Principal Quality Engineer – DevOps is responsible for ensuring that AbbVie's IT operations and software lifecycle processes fully comply with regulatory requirements and corporate standards. This role provides leadership in defining, implementing, and optimizing quality systems through digital enablement and AI-driven solutions, and involves direct collaboration with cross-functional teams, Business stakeholders, and the Business Technology Services (BTS) Quality organization. This techno-functional expert transforms traditional quality assurance by implementing automation frameworks and DevOps best practices that enhance efficiency, reduce cycle times, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing CI/CD pipelines. The Principal Quality Engineer – DevOps will provide oversight of quality activities, especially across Technology Lifecycle process monitoring and incident management, drive improvement initiatives, troubleshoot IT quality issues, and support all phases of the IT solution lifecycle. The incumbent acts as the primary point of contact between business units and quality teams, ensuring mutual understanding of needs and maintaining effective service agreements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and champion solution/change strategies that align with organizational objectives and evolving regulatory requirements, leveraging AI-powered solutions and automation to enhance compliance monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Leverage extensive DevOps process and toolchain expertise to standardize, streamline, and simplify DevOps practices by integrating and optimizing tools across CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, and monitoring capabilities.
- Lead continuous improvement and digital enablement initiatives, focusing on modernizing quality assurance frameworks and driving adoption of advanced automation, validation pipelines, and intelligent process monitoring.
- Drive automation of Software Lifecycle (SLC) processes by developing and deploying automated validation tools, intelligent documentation generation, and workflow solutions to reduce manual effort and cycle times.
- Manage technology lifecycle process monitoring, establish automated dashboards and alerts for system performance, and implement targeted improvements to ensure optimal compliance and efficiency.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for incident management related to quality events and deviations, coordinate investigations, root cause analysis, and ensure effective corrective actions.
- Monitor and update SLC procedures in response to changes in regulatory standards and industry best practices.
- Represent SQA on strategic forums, steering committees, and regulatory engagements; communicate quality outcomes, audit results, and improvements to partners and stakeholders.
- Support and manage regulatory audits and inspections, oversee CAPA investigations and remediation activities, ensuring timely implementation and closure.
- Provide expert mentorship on DevOps best practices, automation, computerized system quality, policy interpretation, and new quality technologies.
- Lead training initiatives for internal teams and business stakeholders on IT Quality standards, SLC procedures, and new tools/technologies.
- Oversee documentation and evidence management to maintain compliance and facilitate investigations and audit readiness.
- Assist Center of Excellence (CoE) leadership with SLC communications, newsletters, and internal coordination efforts.
- Escalate and resolve significant quality exceptions, risks, and issues with minimal supervision.
- Engage in infrastructure change management and risk review activities, submit timely risk assessments to maintain compliance and business continuity.
- Develop, monitor, and interpret SQA metrics and trends using automated analytics, identifying quality gaps and preparing actionable dashboards and reports for senior leadership.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of experience, master’s degree plus 6 years of experience, PhD plus 2 years of experience.
- Proven expertise in DevOps toolchains (e.g., Jira, Confluence, qTest, Jenkins, GitLab, AWS and Azure DevOps), automation pipelines, and CI/CD.
- Experience managing SQA practices, validation strategy, risk and incident management/mitigation.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits and compliance (FDA or similar agencies).
- Strong skills in analytics, project management, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to coach teams in policy, SLC execution, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of Computer Software Assurance (CSA), digital transformation in quality, and contemporary validation practices.
Preferred:
- Supervisory experience.
- Professional certifications (e.g., ASQ CQA, PMP, Six Sigma).
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 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 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.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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.
Job Description
The Principal Quality Engineer – DevOps is responsible for ensuring that AbbVie's IT operations and software lifecycle processes fully comply with regulatory requirements and corporate standards. This role provides leadership in defining, implementing, and optimizing quality systems through digital enablement and AI-driven solutions, and involves direct collaboration with cross-functional teams, Business stakeholders, and the Business Technology Services (BTS) Quality organization. This techno-functional expert transforms traditional quality assurance by implementing automation frameworks and DevOps best practices that enhance efficiency, reduce cycle times, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing CI/CD pipelines. The Principal Quality Engineer – DevOps will provide oversight of quality activities, especially across Technology Lifecycle process monitoring and incident management, drive improvement initiatives, troubleshoot IT quality issues, and support all phases of the IT solution lifecycle. The incumbent acts as the primary point of contact between business units and quality teams, ensuring mutual understanding of needs and maintaining effective service agreements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement, and champion solution/change strategies that align with organizational objectives and evolving regulatory requirements, leveraging AI-powered solutions and automation to enhance compliance monitoring and operational efficiency.
- Leverage extensive DevOps process and toolchain expertise to standardize, streamline, and simplify DevOps practices by integrating and optimizing tools across CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment, and monitoring capabilities.
- Lead continuous improvement and digital enablement initiatives, focusing on modernizing quality assurance frameworks and driving adoption of advanced automation, validation pipelines, and intelligent process monitoring.
- Drive automation of Software Lifecycle (SLC) processes by developing and deploying automated validation tools, intelligent documentation generation, and workflow solutions to reduce manual effort and cycle times.
- Manage technology lifecycle process monitoring, establish automated dashboards and alerts for system performance, and implement targeted improvements to ensure optimal compliance and efficiency.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for incident management related to quality events and deviations, coordinate investigations, root cause analysis, and ensure effective corrective actions.
- Monitor and update SLC procedures in response to changes in regulatory standards and industry best practices.
- Represent SQA on strategic forums, steering committees, and regulatory engagements; communicate quality outcomes, audit results, and improvements to partners and stakeholders.
- Support and manage regulatory audits and inspections, oversee CAPA investigations and remediation activities, ensuring timely implementation and closure.
- Provide expert mentorship on DevOps best practices, automation, computerized system quality, policy interpretation, and new quality technologies.
- Lead training initiatives for internal teams and business stakeholders on IT Quality standards, SLC procedures, and new tools/technologies.
- Oversee documentation and evidence management to maintain compliance and facilitate investigations and audit readiness.
- Assist Center of Excellence (CoE) leadership with SLC communications, newsletters, and internal coordination efforts.
- Escalate and resolve significant quality exceptions, risks, and issues with minimal supervision.
- Engage in infrastructure change management and risk review activities, submit timely risk assessments to maintain compliance and business continuity.
- Develop, monitor, and interpret SQA metrics and trends using automated analytics, identifying quality gaps and preparing actionable dashboards and reports for senior leadership.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7 years of experience, master’s degree plus 6 years of experience, PhD plus 2 years of experience.
- Proven expertise in DevOps toolchains (e.g., Jira, Confluence, qTest, Jenkins, GitLab, AWS and Azure DevOps), automation pipelines, and CI/CD.
- Experience managing SQA practices, validation strategy, risk and incident management/mitigation.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits and compliance (FDA or similar agencies).
- Strong skills in analytics, project management, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to coach teams in policy, SLC execution, and regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of Computer Software Assurance (CSA), digital transformation in quality, and contemporary validation practices.
Preferred:
- Supervisory experience.
- Professional certifications (e.g., ASQ CQA, PMP, Six Sigma).
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 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 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.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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Align Your Background to GMP Operations
AbbVie's Operations roles in pharma manufacturing require familiarity with Good Manufacturing Practice standards. Documenting GMP experience on your resume, even from a non-pharma setting, signals direct transferability and strengthens your candidacy before the sponsorship conversation begins.
Target Roles Tied to Active Facilities
AbbVie's largest Operations hiring clusters around its North Chicago headquarters and key manufacturing sites. Filter your search by location to find roles with active headcount needs, which correlates with stronger employer motivation to pursue sponsorship through the full process.
Clarify Your Visa Category Early in Interviews
If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm whether your role qualifies for STEM OPT extension, which gives AbbVie up to three years of work authorization without an H-1B filing. This materially changes the employer's cost-benefit calculation and your negotiating position.
Understand the LCA Before Your Offer Stage
For H-1B and E-3 filings, AbbVie must certify a Labor Condition Application with DOL before USCIS can adjudicate your petition. Knowing this step exists helps you set realistic start-date expectations and prevents surprises when HR outlines the onboarding timeline.
Use Migrate Mate to Find Verified Sponsorship Roles
Not every AbbVie Operations posting explicitly states visa sponsorship availability. Use Migrate Mate to filter AbbVie roles by the visa types they've sponsored, so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is already part of the hiring pattern.
Ask About PERM Timing for Long-Term Stability
If your goal is a Green Card, ask during the offer stage whether AbbVie initiates PERM labor certification for Operations roles. Biologics and supply chain positions with specialized degree requirements can support EB-2 or EB-3 filings, but timelines vary by backlog and priority date.
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Find Operations at AbbVie JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does AbbVie sponsor H-1B visas for Operations roles?
Yes, AbbVie sponsors H-1B visas for qualifying Operations positions. These roles typically require a specialty occupation with a directly related bachelor's degree or higher, which most professional Operations titles in pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain satisfy. Because H-1B is subject to an annual lottery, timing your application cycle with AbbVie's hiring calendar matters for securing a start date.
Which visa types does AbbVie commonly use for Operations positions?
AbbVie sponsors a range of visa categories for Operations roles, including H-1B, E-3 for Australian nationals, TN for Canadian and Mexican professionals in qualifying occupations, F-1 OPT and CPT for current students, and immigrant pathways like EB-2 and EB-3 for candidates pursuing permanent residence. The right category depends on your nationality, degree, and career stage.
How do I apply for Operations jobs at AbbVie?
You can search AbbVie's careers portal directly or use Migrate Mate to browse Operations roles filtered by visa sponsorship type. When applying, tailor your resume to reflect supply chain, manufacturing, or quality operations experience relevant to pharmaceutical or biotech environments. AbbVie's process typically includes a recruiter screen, technical interviews with hiring managers, and a final offer stage where visa logistics are confirmed.
What qualifications does AbbVie expect for Operations roles?
Most professional Operations positions at AbbVie expect a bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, life sciences, or a related field. Hands-on experience in regulated manufacturing environments, familiarity with GMP or GDP standards, and proficiency with ERP systems like SAP are common requirements. Senior roles may require advanced degrees or substantial industry experience in pharmaceutical or biologics operations.
How do I manage timing if AbbVie sponsors my H-1B petition?
H-1B cap filings open in March for an October 1 start date, meaning AbbVie would need to extend an offer before the registration window. If you miss the lottery or are cap-exempt, alternative visa categories like E-3, TN, or an extended OPT period may bridge the gap. Confirming your status timeline with AbbVie's HR team early in the process avoids delays in your start date.
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