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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, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.\n The Senior Contact Center Platform Engineer, IVA & Automation leads the design, engineering, implementation, optimization, and operational governance of intelligent virtual assistant and contact center automation capabilities across voice and digital channels. 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practices for IVA and automation capabilities, including naming conventions, conversational design standards, test approaches, monitoring expectations, documentation practices, runbooks, support models, and operational controls. \nProvide technical guidance and mentoring to contact center platform engineers, operations partners, analysts, product owners, and delivery teams on IVA design, automation troubleshooting, optimization practices, integration patterns, and engineering standards. \nProduce and maintain technical documentation, configuration records, conversational design artifacts, integration documentation, operating procedures, support procedures, and operational runbooks associated with delivered IVA and automation capabilities. \nEnsure IVA and automation capabilities comply with enterprise security requirements, governance controls, SDLC standards, data protection requirements, privacy expectations, quality controls, and applicable corporate and divisional policies. \nPartner effectively with business stakeholders, contact center operations, product owners, Journey Engineers, analysts, architects, developers, data teams, and vendors to continuously improve automation methods, processes, customer experience, and handoff between automation and live agents. \nWhat makes this role different--Leads advanced contact center automation engineering rather than basic platform configuration. \nOwns IVA and automation capabilities across design, build, optimization, reliability, and operational governance. \nDefines reusable automation patterns, conversational design practices, routing logic, escalation paths, fallback handling, and live-agent handoff standards. \nUses operational and performance analytics to maintain a continuous optimization backlog. \nConnects automation design to contact center operations, including ACD, routing, service levels, WFM/QM impacts, knowledge management, CRM/case management, and digital channels. \nProvides technical guidance to platform engineers, operations partners, architects, product owners, analysts, developers, and vendors. \nEnsures automation solutions are secure, supportable, measurable, compliant, and aligned to patient, HCP, customer, and agent experience goals. \n\n Required\nBachelor's Degree with 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master's Degree in a relevant field with 4 years of relevant experience. \nExperience designing, building, implementing, supporting, or optimizing contact center automation capabilities such as IVA, conversational IVR, chatbots, voice bots, intelligent routing, agent assist, or conversational AI. \nStrong understanding of contact center concepts including IVA, ACD, omnichannel routing, case management/CRM, WFM/QM, knowledge management, digital channels, agent workflows, service levels, quality monitoring, live-agent handoff patterns, and operational performance measurement. \nDemonstrated ability to translate business requirements, customer journeys, and service 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