Platform Architect - Lilly Value & Access

BioSpace; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 64,500 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Company-sponsored 401(k)

Flexible working hours

Job summary

A leading healthcare company in Indianapolis seeks an IT Systems Platform Architect. The role involves providing strategic and technical leadership for a cloud-based SaaS platform, focusing on enhancing patient access to medicines through innovative technologies. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in IT architecture and expertise in SaaS and cloud-native solutions. The company values collaboration and continuous improvement in a regulated environment, offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT architecture or solution design roles.
• Prior experience with cloud-based SaaS solutions.
• Familiarity with microservices and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership for the SaaS platform.
• Partner with product managers to enhance platform.
• Establish architectural standards and best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

AI integration

Data analytics

SaaS platforms

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Power BI

Job description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life‑changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Lilly Value & Access - IT Systems Platform Architect

Become part of a company with 150 years of sustained innovation and a proud legacy of improving lives around the world through groundbreaking medicines. Come join us at Lilly USA, the company’s leading affiliate, where you’ll have the opportunity to leverage cutting‑edge technology to enhance patient access to Lilly medicines and help ensure greater affordability for those who need them.

What Will You Do

Understanding the U.S. healthcare environment and its complexities is captivating and stimulating. This team works with several Lilly Value & Access (LVA) organizations to bring operationally excellent solutions and art of the possible ideas together to transform the way we work. Eli Lilly and Company has been a global leader in pharmaceutical innovation for nearly 150 years. Our LVA organization plays a critical role in ensuring that patients have access to life‑changing medicines while optimizing revenue streams and preventing revenue leakage. We partner with healthcare payers, policymakers, and providers to develop innovative pricing, reimbursement, and access strategies that maximize value for both patients and the business.

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Systems Architect to provide both strategic and technical leadership for a cloud‑based SaaS platform that supports key business functions, including contract management, pricing, and rebate reimbursement. This platform enables a wide range of operations, such as handling chargebacks, managing utilization‑based and policy‑driven rebates, overseeing government pricing, and supporting Medicare programs.

In this role, you will be instrumental in advancing the integration of AI and automation solutions to enhance market access, analyze government policy, and optimize contract strategies. Your primary responsibility will be to design and implement robust frameworks that incorporate AI‑powered intelligence tools into the platform. This includes establishing automated processes for ingesting various contract documents—such as PDFs and formulary tables—and developing advanced analytics pipelines to generate actionable insights that strengthen payer access strategies.

You will set the technical vision to ensure solution designs support effective collaboration among technology teams, data engineers, and policy experts, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maximizing business value. Close partnership with product managers, product owners, external SaaS vendors, will be essential to continuously improving and expanding LVA solution capabilities. As IT Systems Architect, you will champion the adoption of AI‑driven features, influence vendor product development, and ensure all solutions adhere to enterprise architecture standards, cloud best practices, and regulatory requirements.

How You Will Succeed

• Provide architecture leadership for the SaaS platform, ensuring alignment with business strategy, product roadmaps, and enterprise technology standards
• Partner with Lilly Product Managers and Product Owners to translate business and regulatory requirements into platform enhancements
• Collaborate with external SaaS supplier to guide platform evolution, solution design, and strategic roadmap alignment
• Drive the evaluation and adoption of AI‑enabled and data‑driven capabilities within the SaaS platform
• Define and govern application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure architecture
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and compliance
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
• Design and oversee cloud‑native integrations with upstream and downstream enterprise systems
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and design governance forums
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle
• Promote continuous improvement through modernization, cloud optimization, and technical debt reduction
• Architect and implement AI‑powered automation solutions for document ingestion and analysis, enabling automated processing of contract PDFs, formulary tables, and related documents
• Integrate AI‑driven workflows to accelerate interpretation of formulary and contract data, supporting advanced analytics and actionable insights for payer access strategies.

Your Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution design, or technical leadership roles
• Prior experience architecting SaaS and cloud‑based solutions, preferably on AWS
• Experience with cloud‑native architecture patterns, including microservices, APIs, and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience working with external technology suppliers or vendors
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F‑1 CPT, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, J‑1, H‑1B, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, or L‑1.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulated or compliance‑driven environments
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience working in regulated or compliance‑driven environments
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, financial, or government pricing systems especially in revenue management capability area.
• Familiarity with Chargeback, Government Pricing, Medicare, Rebates, or payment platforms
• Experience influencing or shaping vendor SaaS product roadmaps
• Exposure to AI/ML, analytics, or intelligent automation capabilities within SaaS platforms
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud cost optimization
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional)
• Power BI, including experience designing and managing data pipelines to enable robust analytics and reporting solutions.

Additional Information

This role requires strong collaboration across business, technology, and supplier teams and the ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution. The successful candidate will demonstrate a passion for modern cloud architecture, continuous improvement, and delivering high‑quality solutions in a complex, regulated environment.

Travel: <10% or less

Organization Overview

Tech at Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Tech at Lilly is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Business Units

The Global Business Unit tech team is at the forefront of leveraging data and technology to launch new medicines to market, to raise awareness and improve access to medicines for patients. With a deep technical and business understanding, working across all therapeutic areas/disease states, we design and implement digital solutions to power our business, creating best‑in‑class customer engagements that improve patient outcomes and deliver business results.

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $153,000.

Full‑time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company‑sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well‑being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities). Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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