Senior Manager, Engineering Operations

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.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

• Lead engineering operations for the India and bring cross-functional alignment with global product, design, security and engineering teams.
• Talent development, capacity/resource plans, and staffing strategies aligned to priorities across India.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define delivery commitments and technical constraints.
• Build and lead the engineering operations/delivery organization (program/project managers, scrum masters, release managers as applicable): hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Standardize cross-site ways of working across the U.S., Spain, and India following operating rhythms, documentation standards, handoff practices, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure engineering teams support regulated product development, including traceability, change control, evidence generation, and audit readiness in partnership with QA/RA and compliance teams.
• Own operational excellence for the India center providing resource forecasting, onboarding, vendor/partner coordination
• Participate in the planning and release execution, including roadmap translation, milestone planning, backlog readiness and dependency management.
• Establish reporting and performance management including KPIs/OKRs, delivery health dashboards, throughput/flow metrics, release quality signals, and post-release retrospectives with measurable actions.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience in software delivery, program management, or engineering operations, including 5+ years leading managers and multi-team delivery organizations.
• Demonstrated experience running engineering operations for an offshore development center or large distributed delivery portfolio, including operating model design, capacity planning, and delivery governance.
• Strong execution leadership across agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled planning; ability to manage dependencies across product, platform, data, and mobile teams.
• Track record of driving predictable delivery outcomes across scope, schedule, quality, and cost, including risk management and executive-level escalation/communication.
• Experience delivering cloud-native software products and services (mobile, backend, data pipelines, and/or ML services) in a consumer or enterprise context.
• Excellent cross-cultural leadership and stakeholder management skills across geographies and time zones; strong written and verbal communication.

• Experience scaling engineering operations for an offshore development center (hiring plans, onboarding, operating cadence, culture, retention strategies) for 100+ person engineering organizations.
• Experience operating in regulated environments and partnering on compliance expectations (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820/11) to ensure delivery evidence and traceability.
• Background delivering digital health, IoT, biosensor, or data-intensive consumer platforms where reliability, privacy, and safety are critical.
• Experience with release governance for mobile applications (iOS/Android) and platform services, including incident/postmortem processes and operational readiness.