MD IDS - TDS – Technical Lead

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.

Company Overview:

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 39,000 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.

Position Description:

Medicines Development Information and Digital Solutions (MD IDS) serves as a strategic function within Lilly Research Laboratories partnering with the Medicines Development Unit (MDU). The MDU focuses on taking potential marketable products from Research through product registration and approval. MD IDS focuses on the MDU business needs of the future, enabling improvements through information and technology solutions. The teams define and influence information and business strategies, design and develop solutions to achieve the strategic outcomes, and ensure reliable deployment and support of these solutions.

This role of the Technical Lead (Information Hub – Study Onboarding) will be primarily responsible for driving and delivering value from the MD IDS Information Hub. Acts as the primary, technical leader for a portfolio of applications and/or services involving InfoHub, leads a variety of resources (NOT a people management role) to tactically maintain their applications within service levels, and is well versed in the business processes, technologies, and vendor/user relationships tied to the applications and services. They engage with business partners, vendors, external service providers, and IT partners to enhance and maintain the value and stability of the MD IDS application portfolio. Additionally, this role will engage in transformational and Enterprise level efforts to Innovate and Accelerate our value delivery.

The Technical Lead will be responsible for end-to-end process like taking the requirement and lead the effort on designing & development of AWS python scripts, Glue jobs, Athena, Lambda and StepFunctions, changing the code and deploying to production with the help of support team.

Technical Lead Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to enhance the existing technology through an understanding of application landscape.

• Uses standardized processes for requirements definition, analysis, design, construct, and test activities. Elicit business needs, perform data analysis, lead the effort on design and development of AWS cloud related work.

• Applied knowledge of IT Service Management and implementation experience, encompasses all the processes, procedures.

• Produces and maintains project documentation as required, including that of Computer Systems Quality (by following quality-related procedures and utilize tools such as ALM, ServiceNow and Quality Docs).

• Provides and ensures effective impact analysis of changes, with consistency and conformance to Standard Operating Procedures for architecture, data, integrations, and processes.

• Ensure and apply proper data security based on process, business rules and approvals. Ensures Lilly information assets are protected from malicious content and access to information is restricted to authorized personnel only.

• Leads internal partners and external suppliers in ensuring that services deliver maximum business value, remain technically relevant, complaint, sustainable and cost effective.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent years of experience)

• Leading a team (technically) of Software Engineers is a must with experience in software development life cycle, spanning project initiation through support.

• Good AWS working experience in Glue, python, Lambda, StepFunctions, S3, CloudWatch etc.

• Having good SQL experience.

• Demonstrated learning agility both technically as well as business processes and applications

• Demonstrated initiative to build relationships, learn new business processes and identify process improvement opportunities.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Previous Pharmaceutical IT experience would an added advantage.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, presentation skills.

• Excellent self-management skills. Strong problem-solving skills, Process improvement skills

• Organization skills, Self-management. Demonstrated ability to evaluate, facilitate, and drive towards risk-based decision making. Proven team player and the ability to work in a dynamic environment, where needs and priorities can change, with compressed deadlines.

Lilly is a global health care leader that unites caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. For more than a century, we have stayed true to a core set of values—excellence, integrity, and respect for people—that guide us in all we do: discovering medicines that meet real needs, improving the understanding and management of disease, and giving back to communities. We also are committed to investing in our employees and supporting a culture of well-being —through competitive pay, comprehensive employee benefit programs, and training and development resources.

Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly USA, LLC and our wholly owned subsidiaries (collectively “Lilly”) are committed to help individuals with disabilities to participate in the workforce and ensure equal opportunity to compete for jobs. If you require an accommodation to submit a resume for positions at Lilly, please email Lilly Human Resources ( Lilly_Recruiting_Compliance@lists.lilly.com ) for further assistance. Please note This email address is intended for use only to request an accommodation as part of the application process. Any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.