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Position Summary The Technical Lead provides senior hands-on engineering leadership for CT Results technology, owning the technical design and delivery of complex solutions that process, integrate, and surface clinical results data. At the P4 level, the role makes decisions that impact the function or geography, anticipates and resolves key technical problems, and drives solutions across the CT Results area. It influences complex technical issues, builds relationships across teams, and mentors engineers. Consistent with Lilly's technology direction, the Technical Lead is deeply technical and AI-skilled-embedding AI-assisted engineering and agentic capabilities into results data pipelines and championing modern, responsible engineering practice.
Key Responsibilities - Own the technical design and delivery of complex CT Results solutions-scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant.
- Anticipate and resolve key technical, operational, and data problems that impact the CT Results function.
- Embed AI-assisted engineering (code generation, automated testing, anomaly detection) and agentic capabilities into results data pipelines to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Serve as a key technical resource for CT Results, providing depth and breadth of engineering expertise.
- Make technical decisions, within functional, company, and industry guidelines, that impact the function.
- Lead technical design discussions and influence engineering decisions across teams, gaining support on difficult technical issues.
- Ensure results data solutions meet GxP, data-integrity, security, and performance requirements.
- Build integrations and services connecting results data across clinical systems using modern patterns (APIs, event-driven architecture).
- Mentor engineers and strengthen engineering and AI capability across the team.
- Partner with solution managers, architects, and stakeholders to align delivery to standards and roadmaps.
Basic Qualifications - High School Diploma or Equivalent.
- Substantial hands-on engineering experience with depth and/or breadth in the discipline, recognized within a function or area.
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI in day-to-day engineering.
- Strong proficiency across integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Proven ability to anticipate and resolve key technical and data problems impacting a function.
- Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing engineering decisions across teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers and building technical capability.
- Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1.
Preferred Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Strong communication skills, able to influence complex technical issues and present to varied audiences.
- Experience in clinical development, Good Clinical Practice (Google Cloud Platform), or a regulated (GxP) environment within pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/agentic capabilities into data pipelines.
- Familiarity with clinical results data standards and data-integrity requirements.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Relevant cloud or AI/ML certifications.
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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 (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women's Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$124,500 - $182,600
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, 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).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly's compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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