Technical Delivery Manager

Eli Lilly and Company • Indianapolis, IN

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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. Come drive the delivery of technology that accelerates how we bring medicines to patients! Tech@Lilly is looking for a Technical Delivery Manager to drive cross-functional technology delivery across the Medicines Development (Global Regulatory Affairs (GRA), Global Scientific Communications (GSC) and Global Statistical Sciences (GSS)) portfolio. Are you energized by leading complex technical programs at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, AI/automation, regulatory science, and clinical development? Do you bring enough engineering depth to challenge technical decisions while keeping delivery on track? If so, please apply. What You’ll Be Doing As a Technical Delivery Manager within Tech@Lilly, you will own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives that support regulatory submissions, statistical computing, and clinical development workflows. You will operate at the center of a complex portfolio spanning AI/automation programs, cloud platform modernization, data pipeline architecture, and regulatory technology — coordinating across business stakeholders, product managers, internal engineering teams, external vendors and consulting partners, and horizontal platform organizations. You are expected to be technically fluent: able to evaluate architecture decisions, pressure-test engineering estimates, understand cloud infrastructure trade-offs, and ensure that what gets built is not only delivered on time but is technically sound, scalable, and maintainable. How You’ll Succeed · As a Technical Delivery Manager, you will bring hands-on technical understanding alongside operational rigor to drive the delivery of a portfolio of technology initiatives across the organization — ensuring projects deliver on time, within budget, and with measurable business impact. · Managing cross-functional delivery across business, technology, and vendor teams — serving as the central coordination point that keeps workstreams aligned, risks visible, dependencies resolved, and technical decisions well-informed. You understand enough about the underlying systems to ask the right questions and challenge when something doesn’t add up. · Driving governance and portfolio health — preparing and facilitating governance meetings, maintaining portfolio dashboards, tracking budget and capacity utilization, and ensuring leadership has the visibility needed to make informed decisions. · Managing vendor and consulting partner delivery — overseeing SOWs, contracts, and delivery milestones for external partners while ensuring quality, cost discipline, and alignment with internal technology standards. This includes reviewing technical deliverables, validating architecture choices, and holding vendors accountable for engineering quality — not just timeline compliance. · Driving process improvement and engineering excellence — continuously evaluating delivery methodologies, CI/CD practices, development workflows, and reporting mechanisms to improve velocity, code quality, and operational efficiency across the portfolio. · Communicating effectively across all levels — translating technical complexity into clear executive updates, facilitating productive stakeholder conversations, and building trust with business partners, platform organizations, and senior leadership. · Coordinating across global teams — ensuring seamless integration of delivery across geographies with clear expectations, aligned priorities, and consistent execution standards. · Championing AI-assisted development practices — driving adoption of AI coding tools across engineering teams and vendor partners to accelerate delivery velocity, improve code quality, and multiply developer productivity. You set the expectation that AI-augmented development is the default, not the exception.

Requirements

• Experience managing complex technology delivery programs from initiation through production deployment, with the technical depth to understand system architecture, data flows, API design, and infrastructure decisions — not just timelines and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendor and consulting partner delivery, including SOW management, milestone tracking, performance oversight, and technical review of deliverables and architecture decisions.
• Experience establishing and facilitating governance forums, preparing executive-level status reporting, and driving structured decision-making processes.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and highly organized with outstanding communication skills. Able to translate technical complexity into clear business language for diverse audiences.
• Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience coordinating across business, technology, and vendor teams in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of cloud platform technologies (AWS), AI/ML pipelines, and modern software delivery practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps). You don’t need to write the code, but you need to understand what’s being built and why.
• Experience managing budgets and financial tracking for technology programs, including forecasting, variance analysis, and investment justification.
• Experience working across geographically distributed teams, particularly US and India-based delivery organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field
• 4 or more years working in technical delivery, software engineering, or platform engineering roles; experience managing complex, multi-workstream technology programs with cross-functional stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Managing cross-functional delivery across business, technology, and vendor teams
• Driving governance and portfolio health
• Managing vendor and consulting partner delivery
• Driving process improvement and engineering excellence
• Communicating effectively across all levels
• Coordinating across global teams
• Championing AI-assisted development practices

Benefits

• 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).

What This Job Offers

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