Senior Systems Engineer

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.

Join our team and help us shape the future of Digital Operations at Lilly Manufacturing & Quality (MQ)!

The Tech@Lilly organization is playing a key role in accelerating its Global Digital Strategy and scaling modern technology platforms as an enabler of unprecedented growth. One key element of our strategy is to significantly enhance the digital operating environment for manufacturing and lab operators by building a Global Application Marketplace that will simplify, streamline, and standardize key business processes.

Our new Application Marketplace, owned by Digital Operations for Manufacturing Excellence (DOME), will be enabled by a low-code / no-code SaaS-based product known as Tulip. This platform will enable us to complete our digitization journey to become fully paperless across all manufacturing sites, creating a more efficient and effective operating environment, improving Quality, and embedding Data Integrity by Design.

The Lilly Digital Operations team is looking for an experienced Senior System Engineer and Technical Lead who will own the Global Design for established Applications while continuously improving our robust Design Standards to sustain high-quality solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing

Your primary focus will be on leading the design, implementation, and productization of Global Applications using a Marketplace publication approach, enabling Lilly to scale software products across the globe. Key activities for this role include, but are not limited to:

• Partner with Global Business Process Owners, Tech@Lilly Business Analysts, vendor partners, and other key SMEs / stakeholders to reduce the remaining paper footprint across Lilly manufacturing sites.
• Leverage the output of paper footprint analysis, approved business requirements, and other inputs to ensure proper positioning of business processes to the appropriate technology platform for digitization.
• Where appropriate, lead the team in designing and developing scalable Tulip Global Application Templates that align with approved business requirements.
• Create and deliver a vision for data accessibility, including the development of foundational data models enabling seamless integration with downstream data products.
• Establish partnerships with key vendor partners and industry SMEs to maintain technical excellence in modern application design with a focus on enabling “right first time execution” on the shop floor.

How You Will Succeed

• Bring your deep technical knowledge and experience to design and develop product architecture for Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Lab Digital Execution.
• Build and develop the DOME technical team, always remaining prepared to harness the full stack of modern technology in alignment with business needs.
• Partner with business stakeholders, as well as cross-functional solution architects and domain experts at MQ Tech@Lilly  to design reliable and efficient solutions.
• Ensure the compatibility, integration, interoperability, stability, scalability, and usability of products/services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Utilize your understanding of the manufacturing environment, emerging technologies, and system functionalities to envision future system requirements and business needs.
• Drive the site adoption of assigned solutions, ensuring consistency with the Digital Strategy, and using awareness of internal and external trends in collaboration with the Business SMEs.
• Design robust, stable, and resilient solutions with proper support processes, powerful monitoring, and advanced error handling to ensure the continuity of business operations.
• Communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence decision-making at the senior leadership level.
• Coach and Mentor peers (Lilly colleagues and external consultants) to ensure technical capability is maintained at a level commensurate with the criticality of delivered solutions.
• As appropriate, review and approve documentation related to areas of responsibility (Validation Lifecycle documents, SOPs, policies, implemented IQPQ protocols, etc.).