Senior Principal Data Engineer, AI & Supply Chain

BioSpace; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 129,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Pension

Vacation benefits

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Lilly is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer to lead agentic AI initiatives within MQ Tech, focusing on near-real-time data foundations and multi-agent workflows across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

The role combines hands-on delivery with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping roadmaps while ensuring compliant, scalable data solutions deployed to production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, analytics, or AI/ML with hands-on production Gen‑AI/agentic app delivery.
• Experience in supply chain/manufacturing data; hands-on SAP (S/4HANA/ECC, BW/4HANA), SHARP, MES.
• Hands-on ML/LLM development: prompt engineering, tool calling, RAG, vector search/embeddings, multi‑step workflows.
• Deep knowledge of agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) and production LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock); Azure/AWS/Databricks.
• Advanced Python (preferred); SQL, Java/Scala/R a plus; Power BI/Tableau.
• Experience in end-to-end production-grade analytics systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and architecture for agentic AI and data modernization solutions across the Global Supply Chain and MQ landscape.
• Set standards for cloud-based data modeling, pipeline design, agent orchestration, and evaluation that other engineers build on.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers; lead code and design reviews.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders and IT leadership to shape roadmaps and make build/buy trade-offs; direct external vendor and partner teams.
• Correlate supply chain and manufacturing data across ERP, planning, MES, historian, and quality data to produce integrated business solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML

Python

SQL

LangChain

LLM APIs

Production systems

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Masters in related field

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Job description

Lilly is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Data, Analytics & AI Engineer to lead agentic AI initiatives within MQ Tech, focusing on near-real-time data foundations and multi-agent workflows across manufacturing and supply chain operations.

The role combines hands-on delivery with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping roadmaps while ensuring compliant, scalable data solutions deployed to production.