Software Product Delivery Lead

Eli Lilly and Company•Us, IN

About The Position

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. The Software Product Engineering team is actively looking for a Delivery Lead. Are you determined to deliver the best user-centered solutions? Are you interested in shaping the next generation of application development? If so, please apply. What You’ll Be Doing: As a Delivery Lead focused on consumer engagement, you will apply modern web technologies and AI-powered architecture to design solutions that transform consumer experiences and improve outcomes. You will drive delivery excellence in close collaboration with engineering and user-experience teams, partnering with peers to influence the development process as we scale and creating an impactful operation that is responsive to both business and consumer needs. How You’ll Succeed: As a Delivery Lead, you will bring both your technical and delivery expertise to design and build applications that exceed product goals, advance AI-powered consumer experiences, and transform the ecosystem. Leveraging your strong background in software engineering and AI delivery to guide the team’s work, help solve complex problems, and set technology and architecture directions for AI-enabled products and platforms. Contributing to a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation by sharing expertise, coordinating across workstreams, and helping engineers navigate complex delivery challenges. Aligning unique product needs to the right skills and workstreams, while coordinating dependencies and forecasting delivery needs to keep pace with demand. Driving process change, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, AI tooling, methodologies, and delivery practices to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity. As a superb communicator and influencer with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively with engineering, product, AI, and data stakeholders to align delivery and drive outcomes. Setting clear, objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team understanding of expectations and priorities. About the Organization: Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. Lilly’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is focused on building core foundational software platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support consumers digitally. This organization is powered by software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around consumer engagement and drug discovery with code. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related technical field
5+ years of experience working in or closely supporting software delivery, software engineering, or technology teams
3+ years of experience in a lead, coordinator, or delivery-focused role, helping drive work across teams
Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, architecture, and business partners
Experience supporting and/or delivering web-based and/or cloud-based solutions
Experience using AI or GenAI tools in a professional setting
Prior professional experience in software engineering or closely adjacent roles, including exposure to customer‑facing applications built with technologies such as Node.js, Python, Java, Scala, Go, or similar
Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

Strong cross functional collaboration experience
Strong technical fluency — able to understand and participate in technical discussions, translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, and keep work moving forward
Hands‑on familiarity with AI/ML and GenAI concepts, including how LLMs, agentic workflows, and data pipelines are applied to real‑world, consumer‑facing products
Experience working in agile or iterative delivery environments, partnering closely with product and engineering teams
Exposure to distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark or Hadoop
Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities while keeping delivery on track
Familiarity with full‑stack and distributed system concepts, including: RESTful APIs and service‑oriented or microservice architectures Event‑driven systems and message brokers (e.g., Kafka) Distributed data management (e.g., NoSQL, event sourcing) Observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Splunk) DevOps and CI/CD practices Cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure

Responsibilities

Apply modern web technologies and AI-powered architecture to design solutions that transform consumer experiences and improve outcomes.
Drive delivery excellence in close collaboration with engineering and user-experience teams, partnering with peers to influence the development process as we scale and creating an impactful operation that is responsive to both business and consumer needs.
Bring both your technical and delivery expertise to design and build applications that exceed product goals, advance AI-powered consumer experiences, and transform the ecosystem.
Leverage your strong background in software engineering and AI delivery to guide the team’s work, help solve complex problems, and set technology and architecture directions for AI-enabled products and platforms.
Contribute to a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation by sharing expertise, coordinating across workstreams, and helping engineers navigate complex delivery challenges.
Align unique product needs to the right skills and workstreams, while coordinating dependencies and forecasting delivery needs to keep pace with demand.
Drive process change, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, AI tooling, methodologies, and delivery practices to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
Work and collaborate effectively with engineering, product, AI, and data stakeholders to align delivery and drive outcomes.
Set clear, objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team understanding of expectations and priorities.

Benefits

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).
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).

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