Senior Director of Platform Engineering

1 day ago

Indianapolis IN United States Eli Lilly and Company Full time

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 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.

About the Organization:

Software Product Engineering organization is at the center of driving transformation for Lilly to become the medicine company of the future. We are focused on building core software products and platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support patients. This organization is powered by design thinkers and software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around patient engagement and drug discovery.

Platform Engineering team , within the larger Software Product Engineering organization is the group that is responsible for building and managing the platforms that power mission-critical Lilly applications across Commercial, Research & Development, Clinical Trials, and Manufacturing.

Come build the next generation engineering platform to advance Lilly’s purpose - Creating medicines that make life better for people around the world.

The Software Product Engineering org is actively looking for a technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, to lead the Platform Engineering team . Are you a curious product centric and engineering minded leader who can accelerate transformation? If so, please apply.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you will lead the Platform Engineering team responsible for building and managing the platforms that drive Lilly’s mission-critical applications across Commercial, Research & Development, Clinical Trials, and Manufacturing. Your scope will include overseeing both well-established platforms and those that are yet to be developed. You will take ownership of the platforms that support our software applications, while also playing a key role in the ideation, design, and development of future innovations. You’ll lead a large, geographically distributed engineering team across the US and India, ensuring the successful delivery of these essential initiatives. Our team operates in a fast-paced environment, focused on transforming engineering at Lilly.

  • Define and drive the technical vision and strategy to build scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that support the evolving needs of Lilly’s Patient and Drug Discovery ecosystem.
  • Lead the architecture decisions for technology innovation and be a thought partner/sounding board for your team, stakeholders, and partners.
  • Balance immediate stakeholder needs vs longer-term vision.
  • Aggressively build API first and AI enabled platforms with a sense of urgency.
  • Lead, build, mentor, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of frontend, backend, DevSecOps and full-stack engineers to execute a shared vision between engineering, product, and other stakeholders. Build team through thoughtful observation and courageous, honest feedback.

What You Should Bring:

  • Experienced engineering manager with hiring and leading high-caliber multidisciplinary engineers.
  • Managed high-visibility, customer-facing applications such as e-commerce or customer support systems, requiring high uptime and operational integrity.
  • Deep expertise in architectural patterns for distributed applications is required.
  • Customer obsessed and detail oriented with a knack for solving problems.
  • Extensive hands-on Software engineering experience, with proficiency in any programming languages.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field.
  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • 3+ years of proven technical leadership, including managing engineering teams, system design, and technical stack.

Additional Skills:

  • Experience in designing developer-focused platforms with an emphasis on DevX, building frameworks and tools for pro code users (e.g., APIs, SDKs, CI/CD pipelines).
  • Effectively worked with senior leadership in setting strategic quarterly direction.
  • Experience in leading tech transformation and platform refactoring.
  • Experience in user centric designs and creating intuitive user flows is a plus.
  • Experience in AI, ML, Gen AI, MLOps or LLMOps is a plus.
  • Web security, Data engineering and Healthcare compliance experience is a plus.

Additional information:

  • Hybrid role located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required).

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