Technology Delivery Manager

Eli Lilly and Company • Us, IN

1d • $66,000 - $154,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Lilly is looking for a Technical Delivery Manager to be located at the Corporate Center in Indianapolis, IN to drive cross-functional technology delivery across the Medicines Development portfolio with a focus on clinical Statistics. 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. As a Technical Delivery Manager within Technology at 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 collaborators, 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 1+ years working in technical delivery, software engineering, or platform engineering roles
• Experience handling complex, multi-workstream technology programs with cross-functional collaborators
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Experience running 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 run 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).
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• You don't need to write the code, but you need to understand what's being built and why.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives that support regulatory submissions, statistical computing, and clinical development workflows.
• Operate at the center of a complex portfolio spanning AI/automation programs, cloud platform modernization, data pipeline architecture, and regulatory technology, coordinating across business collaborators, product managers, internal engineering teams, external vendors and consulting partners, and horizontal platform organizations.
• 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.
• Drive the delivery of a portfolio of technology initiatives across the organization, ensuring projects deliver on time, within budget, and with measurable business impact.
• Lead 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.
• Understand enough about the underlying systems to ask the right questions and challenge when something doesn't add up.
• Drive 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.
• Lead vendor and consulting partner delivery, overseeing delivery achievements 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.
• Drive 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.
• Communicate effectively across all levels, translating technical complexity into clear executive updates, facilitating productive collaborator conversations, and building trust with business partners, platform organizations, and senior leadership.
• Coordinate across global teams, ensuring seamless integration of delivery across geographies with clear expectations, aligned priorities, and consistent execution standards.
• Champion 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.
• Own service outcomes for the portfolio, ensuring delivered capabilities are managed with clear accountability for performance, stability, and operational health.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate service management processes and reduce manual operational effort, in partnership with delivery and service teams.

Benefits

• company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance)
• 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
• 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: Mid Level