Advisor Clinical Tech Systems Engineering for CT Design and Operations

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

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. Position Summary The Advisor is a senior technical leader supporting Clinical Tech Design & Operations, responsible for tackling the toughest problems and shaping modern, resilient solutions that power clinical design and operational delivery across a large and fast-evolving ecosystem. At the R8 level, the Advisor owns the technical direction of initiatives in partnership with business owners to maximize value, bringing deep data and solution integration expertise to connect design and operational systems reliably at scale. Partnering tightly with Software Product Engineering, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure & Digital Core, the Advisor drives shared strategies and secure-by-design architectures, while researching and applying emerging technology—including AI and agentic engineering—to advance capability and drive adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science , Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Extensive software/systems engineering experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale solutions with clear technical ownership.
• Data and solution integration experience across large, complex, evolving ecosystems.
• Experience in one or more technologies, able to set integration standards and guide other engineers.
• Experience in applying AI in day-to-day engineering.
• Experience across integrations, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience designing resilient solutions in partnership with engineering, cyber, and infrastructure teams.
• Experience in solving the toughest technical problems affecting operations at scale.

Nice To Haves

• Strong communication and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Experience in clinical development, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), or a regulated ( GxP ) environment within pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Cyber-security aware and skilled: secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, identity and access management, and zero-trust patterns.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/agentic capabilities into operational systems.
• Experience driving integration and modernization strategies with software product engineering, infrastructure, and digital core teams.
• Familiarity with clinical operations tooling and clinical data pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Relevant cloud, security, or AI/ML certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of complex initiatives across clinical design and operations, shaping modern, resilient, secure solutions.
• Lead data and solution integration across the ecosystem, ensuring reliable, performant connectivity between design and operational systems, data products, and services.
• Partner tightly with Software Product Engineering, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure & Digital Core to drive aligned strategies, shared standards, and secure-by-design architectures.
• Research and apply emerging technology—AI/ML, agentic workflows, intelligent automation—driving adoption.
• Champion modernization and resilience, reducing technical debt and improving fault tolerance, observability, and recoverability.
• Embed secure and AI-assisted engineering (code generation, automated testing, anomaly detection, threat-aware design) to accelerate delivery and improve operational quality.
• Serve as a recognized expert, defining integration patterns and engineering standards adopted across design and operations teams.
• Elevate technical colleagues by sharing data, integration, and security knowledge to broaden team impact.
• Improve engineering processes and guide the organization through change.
• Gain support for and influence initiatives spanning clinical design and operations, engineering, cyber, and infrastructure.
• Provide authoritative troubleshooting leadership on complex integration, operational, and design-system challenges.

Benefits

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• company-sponsored 401(k)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• 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
• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior