Eli Lilly

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.

Organization Overview:

The Tech@Lilly organization is instrumental in advancing its Global Digital Strategy and expanding modern technology platforms to facilitate unprecedented growth. The Global Laboratory Informatics team develops and maintains applications that support Lilly's Global Lab organization as part of this strategy. This team is part of the Manufacturing and Quality (M&Q) organization, which continues to evolve as we envision the digital plant of the future and support manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts by maximizing the use of technology and analytics.

The Lilly Labs team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Principal Engineer to join our team. Your main responsibility will be overseeing the design and implementation of various solutions within the Labs portfolio. These include (but are not limited to):

• Empower: Manage the configuration, validation, and maintenance of the system, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards. Implement tools to enhance the Empower system, including the adoption of AI to minimize user workload and integration with ELN and LES solutions.
• SmartLab: Manage the configuration, validation, and maintenance of the system to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will work with business SMEs (Quality Control and Operational Excellence teams), cross-functional solution architects, and third-party service providers on the design, configuration, and implementation of various projects. You will use technical and business process knowledge to inform strategy and design choices that support program goals of standardized and streamlined processes and sustainable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional solution architects within the Labs, as well as architects within the broader Quality function, to design reliable and efficient solutions for the manufacturing laboratories.
• Work in partnership with the application architects to influence the technical direction of software vendors, service providers, and service delivery teams.
• Leverage your understanding of the laboratory environment, emerging technologies, and system functionalities to foresee future system requirements and business needs.
• Develop robust, stable, and resilient solutions with appropriate support processes, effective monitoring, and advanced error handling to ensure the continuity of business operations.
• Ensure the compatibility, integration, interoperability, stability, scalability and usability of products/services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence decision making at senior leadership level.
• Drive the site adoption of assigned solutions, ensuring consistency with Digital Strategy, and using awareness of internal and external trends in collaboration with the Business SMEs.
• Coach and Mentor peers (Lilly colleagues and external consultants) to ensure technical capability is maintained at a level commensurate with the criticality of delivered solutions.
• Review and approve documentation related to areas of responsibility (Validation Lifecycle documents, SOPs, policies, implemented IQPQ protocols, etc.) as appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to all quality, compliance and data integrity requirements.
• Establish key relationships with business users and other Tech@Lilly areas.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 10+ years professional experience implementing and maintaining GMP systems.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Demonstrated experience working in one or more core Lilly execution systems such as LES (SmartLab), CDS (Empower), ELN (NuGenesis), and LIMS (LabVantage).
• Proficiency in SQL or other databases, Windows Server, Advanced Analytics, and REST APIs.
• Understanding of technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Augmented Reality (AR), Data Modeling, Cloud Computing (Azure/AWS), and Robotics.
• Experience with Agile and Hybrid Agile development and delivery processes.
• Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure that the organization's systems remain innovative and effective.
• Proven ability to lead a cross-functional team of business SMEs and third-party vendors to deliver high-value solutions on time and with the right level of quality.
• Ability to influence modern architectural design and driving the right strategic decisions to ensure global scalability and supportability.
• Strong understanding of Quality processes in IT applicable to Manufacturing Laboratories.
• Experience supporting critical GMP processes and working on a regulated industry.
• Excellent initiative and self-management skills as well as ability to lead teams, influence others and manage conflict.
• Strong learning agility, communication at all levels, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Information:

• Travel: 10-25%
• Shift information: Full time day shift position, occasional off hours and weekend work will be expected to support global applications.
• Position location: US based (Indianapolis, IN; Branchburg, NJ; Research Triangle Park, NC; Carolina, Puerto Rico). Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

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 Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people 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

$63,750 - $180,400

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.

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