Associate Director, Digital Core Enterprise Automation

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.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$123,000 - $180,400

Are you interested in using technology to automate and transform business processes?

The Technology at Lilly Digital Core Enterprise Automation team (formerly the Automation Strategy and Operations team) is seeking to add a technical leader/architect role to the team. This role will have an automation engineering focus and help drive the strategic architecture and technology direction for the team. Are you innovative and curious about new technology that can make business processes easy and more efficient? Come join our team!

What You’ll Be Doing:

In this position, you will impact the way automation is delivered across the company. To do this, you may help evaluate and implement automation tools, expand the catalog of connectors and APIs, create reusable components with an intent toward self-service, lead a capability area, and engage in other engineering related activities.

How You’ll Succeed:

• Develop a deep technical understanding of automation and industry best practices. Learn the spectrum of automation capabilities and industry leading technical platforms to implement change in the automation ecosystem to stay current and deliver automation value at speed and scale to our business partners.
• Align people, tools, and processes to enable rapid automation solution delivery, identifying opportunities for automation product development, functional reuse, and self-service across the enterprise.
• Engage and lead software engineers ensuring the automation platform architecture operations are stable, secure, performant, compliant, resilient, and reliable for usage at scale.
• Lead the evaluation of new automation demand to identify appropriate solutioning including architecture, security, and technology.
• Develop a deep understanding of Lilly’s development and delivery framework to coach others in the team for best practice, technical expertise, supportability, operational excellence and troubleshooting, and working with suppliers.
• Continuously evaluate automation tools/technologies. Understand the current automation technology landscape and the breadth of functionality available. You may lead the selection and implementation of the technology into the environment, including the strategy for reusable templates and APIs for automation consumption.
• Collaborate with the delivery team to anticipate demand and incorporate new capabilities and technologies into the enterprise automation portfolio.

What You Should Bring:

• Demonstrated agility to rapidly understand new technologies and the respective infrastructure/architectures to assess value, capture core use cases, and effectively support
• Deep expertise in 3 or more of the following: AWS or Azure, document processing, end-to-end process orchestration, process improvement and optimization, content automation, chat bots, robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, or automated testing and frameworks
• Experience as a technical leader, influencing strategic direction and driving implementation of multiple technical projects, systems, and applications.
• Experience creating, managing and presenting product roadmaps with the ability to articulate the value and to align short-term efforts to automation demand and longer-term business goals
• Proven relationship building skills and ability to lead, influence and support a diverse technical team through operational improvement and change. Ability to work collaboratively across and within diverse global teams and organizational levels.
• Successful record of high-quality, technical application project delivery with demonstrated quantified business value, tracking and lessons learned.
• Ability to create strategic technology-related business cases to enable efficiency gains, growth, scale and change for complex technical delivery services.
• Willingness to coach and mentor others and seek to learn from others to raise the acumen of the entire team
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• A high level of intellectual and technical curiosity, continuous improvement mindset, and ability to drive innovation within the team.
• Experience using project delivery frameworks and methodologies such as Agile Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. and demonstrated experience in industry best practices and automation tools.
• Deep expertise in end-to-end DevOps (Jira, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field plus a minimum of 6 years of experience in application solution delivery and leading others in technical projects OR High School Diploma/GED plus a minimum of 8 years of experience in application solution delivery and leading others in technical projects
• A minimum of 4 years demonstrating technical expertise in solution architecture. development, and delivery. Automation related experience is a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years of programming experience, ideally in one of the following languages (Python, JavaScript Frameworks -NodeJS, Angular, React, Java, etc.)  

Qualified US candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

About the Organization:

Technology at Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Tech@Lilly is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

The Technology at Lilly Digital Core team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.

Will this position support sponsorship:

No

Travel percentage for this position:

0-10%

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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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