Senior Clinical Tech Design & Operations Advisor

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 162,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) and pension

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Well-being benefits

Employee clubs and activities

Job summary

Lilly is seeking an Advisor to lead technical direction for Clinical Tech Design & Operations. You will partner with engineering, cyber, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, scalable design and operational solutions, applying AI and agentic workflows to advance capabilities.

At R8 level, you will shape strategies, drive secure architectures, and champion modernization while mentoring engineers and aligning with shared standards across the ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Extensive software/systems engineering experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale solutions with clear technical ownership.
• Data and solution integration experience across large, complex, evolving ecosystems.
• Experience in one or more technologies, able to set integration standards and guide other engineers.
• Experience in applying AI in day-to-day engineering.
• Experience across integrations, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience designing resilient solutions in partnership with engineering, cyber, and infrastructure teams.
• Experience in solving the toughest technical problems affecting operations at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of complex initiatives across clinical design and operations, shaping modern, resilient, secure solutions.
• Lead data and solution integration across the ecosystem, ensuring reliable, performant connectivity between design and operational systems, data products, and services.
• Partner tightly with Software Product Engineering, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure & Digital Core to drive aligned strategies, shared standards, and secure-by-design architectures.
• Research and apply emerging technology—AI/ML, agentic workflows, intelligent automation—driving adoption.
• Champion modernization and resilience, reducing technical debt and improving fault tolerance, observability, and recoverability.
• Embed secure and AI-assisted engineering (code generation, automated testing, anomaly detection, threat-aware design) to accelerate delivery and improve operational quality.
• Serve as a recognized expert, defining integration patterns and engineering standards adopted across design and operations teams.
• Elevate technical colleagues by sharing data, integration, and security knowledge to broaden team impact.
• Improve engineering processes and guide the organization through change.
• Gain support for and influence initiatives spanning clinical design and operations, engineering, cyber, and infrastructure.
• Provide authoritative troubleshooting leadership on complex integration, operational, and design-system challenges.

Skills

Data integration

AI in engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Cloud platforms experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Lilly is seeking an Advisor to lead technical direction for Clinical Tech Design & Operations. You will partner with engineering, cyber, and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, scalable design and operational solutions, applying AI and agentic workflows to advance capabilities.

At R8 level, you will shape strategies, drive secure architectures, and champion modernization while mentoring engineers and aligning with shared standards across the ecosystem.