Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

14h

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead is accountable for the technical success of AI agents, systems of agents, and AI products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: the lead personally designs, codes, and delivers critical components, primarily in Python, while guiding development teams through design reviews, technical direction, and quality gates. The role ensures solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and delivered with a bias for action.

The Tech Lead drives architectural and engineering decisions, ensures high-quality delivery, and serves as the primary technical counterpart to delivery teams and business users. The role balances business objectives, user experience, scalability, security, and maintainability to deliver sustainable technology solutions while enabling domain teams within Lilly's federated delivery model. Success is measured by solution quality and reliability, technical delivery speed and predictability, reduced technical debt and operational issues, adoption of engineering standards, and the technical capability and health of the product and team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, such as Engineering or Information Technology.
• At least 8 years of software development or software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years of experience leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives.
• Experience using cloud platforms, software architecture, APIs, data integration, and modern development practices.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree such as a Master's or PhD.
• Experience delivering technology solutions in a regulated industry such as pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences, including familiarity with GxP and computer systems validation.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI and machine learning solutions, including LLM-based and agentic applications and supporting engineering practices.
• Experience with DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with a record of growing engineers into senior technical roles.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and making sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Relevant certifications, such as cloud architecture (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical direction and ensure alignment with business strategy and product objectives.
• Translate business requirements into clear technical designs and implementation plans.
• Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions with engineers, architects, and security partners.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, platforms, and development approaches.
• Ensure adherence to engineering standards, security requirements, and architectural principles.
• Drive technical decisions and tradeoffs involving speed, cost, quality, maintainability, and scalability.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Review code and ensure adherence to development standards and best practices.
• Monitor solution quality, performance, reliability, and technical health.
• Establish testing strategies and oversee technical validation activities.
• Mentor developers and foster technical growth across the team.
• Coordinate technical work across developers, architects, security partners, and platform teams.
• Assign and guide technical tasks while maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Promote continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Partner with business stakeholders to create solutions with high accuracy and usage rates.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, and solution approaches to stakeholders.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical issues.

Benefits

• Company bonus, depending in part on company and individual performance.
• Eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k).
• Pension.
• Vacation benefits.
• Eligibility for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug benefits.
• Flexible benefits, such as 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, such as an employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities.

What This Job Offers

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