Technology Delivery Manager

100 Eli Lilly and Company; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly in Indianapolis is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives across regulatory submissions, AI/automation, cloud modernization, and data pipelines. You will coordinate across vendors, product managers, and internal teams to ensure timely, high-quality results.

Responsibilities include governance, budgeting, and executive reporting, with a focus on scalable architectures, cloud decisions, and AI‑assisted development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 1+ years in technical delivery or similar roles.
• Experience leading multi‑workstream technology programs with cross‑functional teams.
• Authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis; sponsorship not provided.
• Strong governance, status reporting, and executive communications skills.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS) and modern software delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives supporting regulatory submissions and clinical workflows.
• Coordinate across vendors, consultants, product managers, and internal engineering teams.
• Review architecture decisions, test estimates, and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Lead governance forums, dashboards, budgeting, and risk/dependency management.
• Champion AI-assisted development practices to accelerate delivery velocity.

Skills

Vendor management

Governance

Budgeting & forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Cloud platforms AWS

AI/ML pipelines

CI/CD & DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing As a Technical Delivery Manager within Technology at Lilly,

you will own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives that support regulatory submissions, statistical computing, and clinical development workflows. You will operate at the center of a complex portfolio spanning AI/automation programs, cloud platform modernization, data pipeline architecture, and regulatory technology, coordinating across business collaborators, product managers, internal engineering teams, external vendors and consulting partners, and horizontal platform organizations. You are expected to be technically fluent: able to evaluate architecture decisions, pressure-test engineering estimates, understand cloud infrastructure trade-offs, and ensure that what gets built is not only delivered on time but is technically sound, scalable, and maintainable.

How You’ll Succeed As a Technical Delivery Manager,

As a Technical Delivery Manager, you will bring hands‑on technical understanding alongside operational rigor to drive the delivery of a portfolio of technology initiatives across the organization, ensuring projects deliver on time, within budget, and with measurable business impact. Leading cross‑functional delivery across business, technology, and vendor teams, serving as the central coordination point that keeps workstreams aligned, risks visible, dependencies resolved, and technical decisions well‑informed. You understand enough about the underlying systems to ask the right questions and challenge when something doesn’t add up. Driving governance and portfolio health, preparing and facilitating governance meetings, maintaining portfolio dashboards, tracking budget and capacity utilization, and ensuring leadership has the visibility needed to make informed decisions. Leading vendor and consulting partner delivery, overseeing delivery achievements for external partners while ensuring quality, cost discipline, and alignment with internal technology standards. This includes reviewing technical deliverables, validating architecture choices, and holding vendors accountable for engineering quality, not just timeline compliance. Driving process improvement and engineering excellence, continuously evaluating delivery methodologies, CI/CD practices, development workflows, and reporting mechanisms to improve velocity, code quality, and operational efficiency across the portfolio. Communicating effectively across all levels, translating technical complexity into clear executive updates, facilitating productive collaborator conversations, and building trust with business partners, platform organizations, and senior leadership. Coordinating across global teams, ensuring seamless integration of delivery across geographies with clear expectations, aligned priorities, and consistent execution standards. Championing AI‑assisted development practices, driving adoption of AI coding tools across engineering teams and vendor partners to accelerate delivery velocity, improve code quality, and multiply developer productivity. You set the expectation that AI‑augmented development is the default, not the exception. Own service outcomes for the portfolio, ensuring delivered capabilities are managed with clear accountability for performance, stability, and operational health. Identify and implement opportunities to automate service management processes and reduce manual operational effort, in partnership with delivery and service teams.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree 1+ years working in technical delivery, software engineering, or platform engineering roles; experience handling complex, multi‑workstream technology programs with cross‑functional collaborators. 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.

What You Should Bring

Experience running complex technology delivery programs from initiation through production deployment, with the technical depth to understand system architecture, data flows, API design, and infrastructure decisions, not just timelines and budgets. Demonstrated ability to run vendor and consulting partner delivery, including SOW management, milestone tracking, performance oversight, and technical review of deliverables and architecture decisions. Experience establishing and facilitating governance forums, preparing executive‑level status reporting, and driving structured decision‑making processes. Self‑motivated, proactive, and highly organized with outstanding communication skills. Able to translate technical complexity into clear business language for diverse audiences. Excellent cross‑functional influencer with experience coordinating across business, technology, and vendor teams in a matrixed, fast‑paced environment. Working knowledge of cloud platform technologies (AWS), AI/ML pipelines, and modern software delivery practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps). You don’t need to write the code, but you need to understand what’s being built and why. Experience managing budgets and financial tracking for technology programs, including forecasting, variance analysis, and investment justification. Experience working across geographically distributed teams, particularly US and India‑based delivery organizations.

Location & Work Flexibility

This role is based at our global headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. We offer a flexible hybrid work model, with three days onsite and two days working remotely each week, supporting both collaboration and work‑life balance. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. 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.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $66,000 - $154,000. 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.

#WeAreLilly At Lilly we strive to ensure our employees are part of a team that cares about them and our shared purpose of making life better for those around the world. How do we do this? We continue to look for ways to include, innovate, accelerate and deliver while maintaining integrity, excellence and respect for people. We hope that you seek to join us on our journey as we create medicine and deliver improved outcomes for patients across the globe! #WeAreLilly