Senior Contact Center Engineer

AbbVie

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Work type
On-site
Location
North Chicago, IL
Salary
$84,500–$162,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 9, 2126

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Below market

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About AbbVie

AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and delivering innovative medicines and solutions in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care. Its products include Humira, Skyrizi, and Rinvoq.

AbbVie currently has 158 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $109,500–$208,500 across 148 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Contact Center Engineer

The Senior Contact Center Engineer leads the design, engineering, and operational governance of intelligent virtual assistant and contact center automation capabilities across voice and digital channels. This role involves building conversational IVR, chatbots, voice bots, intelligent routing, and agent assist tools to improve self-service and operational efficiency. You will engineer seamless automation-to-agent handoff experiences that preserve customer intent and authentication states while managing integrations with Five9, telephony platforms, Salesforce CRM systems, APIs, and backend applications. Key responsibilities include optimizing performance metrics like containment rates and intent accuracy, establishing reusable engineering standards, and providing technical guidance to platform engineers. You will solve complex technical problems by connecting automation design to workforce management, quality monitoring, and knowledge management systems to ensure reliable, compliant, and scalable customer experiences.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design, engineering, and optimization of IVA and contact center automation capabilities across voice and digital channels.
  • Own advanced automation design patterns including conversational IVR, chatbots, intelligent routing, and agent assist.
  • Engineer seamless automation-to-agent handoff experiences that preserve customer intent, authentication state, and interaction history.
  • Design and engineer integrations connecting IVA capabilities to Five9, Salesforce, APIs, and backend enterprise data sources.
  • Monitor and analyze performance metrics to improve self-service completion rates, intent accuracy, and latency.
  • Establish reusable engineering standards, governance practices, and technical documentation for all automation capabilities.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve conversational defects, platform incidents, and integration issues in partnership with internal and external teams.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to platform engineers, product owners, and delivery teams on automation best practices.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of relevant experience; OR Master's Degree in a relevant field with 4 years of relevant experience.
  • Experience designing, building, implementing, supporting, or optimizing contact center automation capabilities like IVA, chatbots, and voice bots.
  • Strong understanding of contact center concepts including ACD, omnichannel routing, CRM/case management, WFM/QM, and live-agent handoff patterns.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into conversational flows, intents, dialog logic, routing rules, and technical solution designs.
  • Experience engineering integrations with telephony systems, CRM systems, authentication services, APIs, and backend applications.
  • Proficiency in monitoring and analyzing performance metrics such as containment, escalation, intent accuracy, latency, and availability.
  • Working knowledge of software development lifecycle practices, change management, testing disciplines, and release validation.
  • Experience with Five9 IVA, Five9 Studio, or related contact center automation capabilities (preferred).

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