Software Product Engineering - Delivery Lead

Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Well-being benefits

Job summary

Lilly IT is seeking a Delivery Lead in Indianapolis to own delivery execution for consumer-facing software solutions. You will guide engineering and AI-enabled product delivery while staying close to technical work to unblock the team and drive outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, AI, and data stakeholders, set clear objectives and timelines, and ensure seamless post-deployment handoffs. A focus on scalable, high‑quality software with strong communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years working in software engineering roles.
• 5+ years in a technical lead or senior program management role.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery execution while guiding the team.
• Drive AI-enabled product delivery and architecture ideas.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, AI, and data stakeholders to align delivery.
• Set objectives, scoping, and schedules; manage blockers and risks.
• Partner with Operations to ensure smooth handoff post-deployment.

Skills

Delivery leadership

AI delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Full stack APIs

Team mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Grafana

Splunk

RESTful APIs

DevOps / CI/CD

LLM APIs

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Lilly’s Purpose

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 35,000 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.

Come develop great software solutions to solve exciting problems and deliver exceptional consumer experiences!

The Software Product Engineering team is actively looking for a Delivery Lead. Are you determined to deliver the best user-centered solutions? Are you interested in shaping the next generation of application development?

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a senior player-coach role at the intersection of engineering delivery and technical program management — you will own delivery execution while staying close enough to the technical work to guide, challenge, and unblock the team. As a Delivery Lead focused on consumer engagement, you will apply modern web technologies and AI-powered architecture to design solutions that transform consumer experiences and improve outcomes. You will drive delivery excellence in close collaboration with engineering and user-experience teams, partnering with peers to influence the development process as we scale and creating an impactful operation that is responsive to both business and consumer needs.

How You’ll Succeed

• As a Delivery Lead, you will bring both your technical and delivery expertise to design and build applications that exceed product goals, advance AI-powered consumer experiences, and transform the ecosystem.
• Leveraging your strong background in software engineering and AI delivery to guide the team’s work, help solve complex problems, and understand technology and architecture directions for AI-enabled products and platforms.
• Contributing to a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation by sharing expertise, coordinating across workstreams, and helping engineers navigate complex delivery challenges.
• Driving process change, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, AI tooling, methodologies, and delivery practices to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• As a superb communicator and influencer with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively with engineering, product, AI, and data stakeholders to align delivery and drive outcomes.
• Setting clear objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team’s understanding of expectations and priorities.
• Proactively identify, escalation, and resolve delivery blockers and risks by establishing clear escalation paths, maintaining transparent communication with stakeholders, and driving timely resolution to protect team velocity and product commitments.
• Partner with Operations teams to ensure seamless handoff of delivered products to support to enable sustained operational excellence post-deployment.

What You Should Bring

• Experience leading complex engineering and AI/ML delivery projects from inception to production.
• An understanding of full stack development including RESTful APIs, SOA/MSA, Message brokers (Kafka), Distributed Data Management (NoSQL, Event sourcing), Observability (Grafana, Splunk), DevOps, CI/CD, AWS/Azure, and familiarity with AI/GenAI integration patterns and LLM APIs.
• A strong ability to drive delivery of robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing their solutions
• Demonstrated ability to scope, schedule and resource multiple complex projects in collaboration with other cross functional partners.
• Self-motivated, independent, and proactive, with outstanding communication skills. Can effectively communicate complex ideas and make compelling arguments
• Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience working in a fast-paced environment with frequent context switching.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI/ML and GenAI concepts, including how large language models, agentic workflows, and data pipelines are leveraged to build intelligent consumer-facing products.
• Experience contributing to and scaling software engineering teams, enabling efficient delivery of high quality software products.
• Experience coaching and mentoring team members, leading through influence within and across teams to maintain alignment and shared consciousness
• Championing AI-native ways of working by embedding AI tools and practices into daily engineering workflows — from AI-assisted code review and automated testing to LLM-powered documentation and intelligent sprint planning — fostering a team culture that treats AI as a core collaborator rather than a supplementary tool.
• Collaborate on the product budget and business plan, partnering with finance and business stakeholders to forecast resource needs, track spend against targets, and ensure investments align with strategic priorities and deliver measurable business value.
• Define and maintain the product release plan and roadmap, milestones, and dependencies to ensure predictable delivery cadence and clear visibility into near‑term and long‑term product direction.

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 8 or more years working in software engineering roles
• 5 or more years of experience in a technical lead, engineering manager, delivery lead, or senior program management role

About The Organization

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities 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.

Lilly’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is focused on building core foundational software platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support consumers digitally. This organization is powered by software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around consumer engagement and drug discovery with code.

Additional Information

Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Lilly”) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( [e-mail] ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

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

$124,500 - $182,600

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.

#WeAreLilly

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).

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

$124,500 - $182,600

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.

#WeAreLilly