# Principal Data Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION: Position Overview The Principal Data Engineer (IC) is a senior individual contributor and the accountable technical leader for assigned cross-domain initiatives and enterprise data engineering capabilities. The role owns integrated technical direction and technical outcomes for work spanning multiple data domains, defines and stewards enterprise engineering standards and reference architectures, and drives convergence where duplicated or inconsistent solutions create enterprise cost, risk, or operational burden. The role advises on scope, sequencing, capacity, dependencies, and technical debt, but does not independently commit domain resources or business delivery dates. This position has no people-management responsibility. Enterprise Data operates a domain-aligned model built on Databricks and Unity Catalog. Working with

- **Id**: 1125498
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/abbott-laboratories-principal-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Madison, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T21:18:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T14:52:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7086
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Cardiovascular Devices, Diabetes Devices, Neurotech & Neuromodulation

## Company

- **Id**: 2710
- **Name**: Abbott
- **Domain**: abbott.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/abbott>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 298
- **Ghost share**: 0.003
- **Stale share**: 0.742
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 129300
- **Max**: 258700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 258700

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Tableau** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T21:18:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.547
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 258700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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