Senior Principal Data & AI Engineer – Supply Chain

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 129,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Pension

Vacation benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Lilly seeks a Senior Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer to lead agentic AI and data modernization for Global Supply Chain and MQ Tech. You will architect near‑real‑time data foundations, design multi‑agent workflows, and deliver production solutions used across manufacturing lines and networks.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and partner with business stakeholders to shape roadmaps and trade‑offs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering/Data Science/Statistics/Supply Chain with 8+ years in data engineering, analytics, or AI/ML, including Gen‑AI delivery.
• Experience in supply chain/manufacturing data; hands‑on SAP (S/4HANA/ECC, BW/4HANA), SHARP, MES and related analytics.
• Hands‑on statistical, ML, LLM/agentic app development: prompt engineering, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, multi‑step workflows.
• Deep knowledge of agent frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph) and production LLM APIs; Azure/AWS/Databricks.
• Advanced Python; SQL; Java/Scala/R; Power BI/Tableau; web apps.
• End‑to‑end production analytics systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and architecture for agentic AI and data modernization across Global Supply Chain and MQ landscape.
• Set standards for cloud data modeling, pipelines, agent orchestration, and evaluation; enable reuse.
• Mentor engineers; lead code and design reviews; shape roadmaps with business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with vendors and partners; ensure delivery aligns with strategy and budgets.

Skills

Gen-AI/agentic delivery

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Agent frameworks

Cloud platforms

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science/Statistics/Supply Chain

8+ years in data engineering/AI/ML

Masters (preferred)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SHARP

MES

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI/Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Lilly seeks a Senior Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer to lead agentic AI and data modernization for Global Supply Chain and MQ Tech. You will architect near‑real‑time data foundations, design multi‑agent workflows, and deliver production solutions used across manufacturing lines and networks.

You will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and partner with business stakeholders to shape roadmaps and trade‑offs.