Digital Health Lead iOS Developer

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 35,000 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.

Title:Digital Health Lead iOS Developer

Digital Health Organization Overview

Technology continues to transform every aspect of society, including healthcare. Lilly envisions digital capabilities as an extension of our medicines, not just a marketing tactic. We, as consumers, have come to expect digital experiences to augment and support our experiences with medicines – especially to help reduce the burden of coping and managing through chronic disease for us, our loved ones and health care providers. Hence, Lilly’s Digital Health team is committed to exploring how the next generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly – improve patient outcomes.

Position Description

As a Lead iOS developer in Digital Health you will be responsible for bringing Lilly’s Digital products and software solutions to life. This includes leading the technical design of mobile solutions to put in to patients hands working closely with solution architects, other developers and our user centered design team, where you will be collaborating to achieve best balance of technology and user experience to meet our product goals. You will also be entering the team at a stage with opportunities to help shape the development process in conjunction with peers to create a high performing operation that is responsive to both business and patient needs leveraging the best of what mobile technology has to offer.

Primary Position Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of iOS application working with Solution Architects and iOS developers
• Act as a Technical mentor for more junior iOS developers including reviewing their technical documentation
• Build iOS applications for Apple mobile platforms
• Use object-oriented development principles in Swift to reach project solutions
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Work and collaborate effectively on a team including remote team members
• Regularly maintain iOS applications via debugging and continuous updates

Basic Position Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Associates Degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related discipline.

• Professional experience delivering software solutions that span the development life cycle; i.e., project initiation, design, development, testing, deployment, support, and retirement.

• Experience of technical leadership and mentoring of a development team

• 7-10 years of experience in mobile app development

• A fleshed-out portfolio of software development projects

• Strong Swift, iOS SDK, Objective-C, multi-threading, and object-oriented programming skills

• Expertise with Object Oriented Programming, data serialization, REST APIs, and software code version control.

• Familiarity with MVVM architectural pattern

• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features

• Proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch

• Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards

• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

• Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools

• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

• Can write, perform, or automate unit tests

• Knack for benchmarking and optimization

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

• Familiarity with continuous integration (CI/CD)

• Knowledge related to publishing on the App Store

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Experience working with and implementing Bluetooth based solutions

• Experience implementing solutions using more advanced iOS platform features including the use Apple Core ML, Augmented reality solutions and voice-based solutions

• Experience developing and/or supporting Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to “live in the gray space” - when process and direction does not dictate an ideal course of action – and make reasonable, risk-based decisions that keep projects on track.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team building skills.

• Understanding of Quality Management Systems (QMS) and how to effectively deliver software within the processes and expectations of those systems.

• Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and associated implementations.
• High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest
• Previous experience working in the Pharmaceutical Industry and/or environments regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Additional Information

• ELI LILLY AND COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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