Senior Technical Engineer – LabVantage Master Data

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us. 

About Lilly

At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly.

About the Technology Organization:

At Lilly, technology is not a support function. It is how a global medicine company operates, innovates, and delivers. Lilly in Hyderabad builds the capabilities that make this possible, cloud platforms, AI systems, and automation at enterprise scale, all in service of a purpose that makes this technology work genuinely distinctive, from advancing drug discovery to enabling connected clinical trials to keeping a global medicine company running at the standard patients deserve.

About the Business Function:

From molecule to market, Global Manufacturing plays an important role in every step along a product’s lifecycle. Most of our customers never see the scientific and technical resources behind our medicines. But customers experience, every day, the performance of our high-quality products and global supply network. 

Global Manufacturing comprises a core group of functions that drives the production and supply of high-quality products: Engineering; Manufacturing Information & Control Systems (Technology@Lilly); Quality & Labs, Technology Services/Manufacturing Science; Global Health, Safety and Environment; and Supply Chain. 
 

Role: Senior Technical Engineer – LabVantage Master Data 

The Senior Technical Engineer will be leading designing, building, and automating analytical test methods and associated data and specifications within LabVantage LIMS, and for developing or coordinating the development of instrument drivers and integrations that enable direct data capture into LIMS from laboratory instruments. 

This role combines domain expertise in laboratory processes and analytical methods with technical leadership in LIMS MD configuration & Custom development. The incumbent will play a key role in advancing the organization’s digital laboratory ecosystem, driving data integrity, automation, and compliance in GxP systems.

Key Responsibilities:
 

What you’ll be doing:

LabVantage MD Development & Build

• Develop the configuration, creation, and lifecycle management of analytical test methods in LabVantage LIMS (i.e. All interconnected MDs to support entire workflow for test method to work as per expectations).

• Implement test templates, specifications, and parameter lists ensuring standardization and scalability across products and sites.

• Define and maintain Test method metadata structures for automation (units, limits, calculations, result entry templates).

• Custom Script development for data transfer or verifications

• Implement Test method versioning, review, and approval workflows in accordance with organisational data governance and validation policies.

• Partner with functional SMEs to ensure test methods adhering with GxP, ALCOA+, and analytical method validation principles.

• Build test scenarios/ documents and Test method templates

Technical Maintenance and Master Data Support

• Triage, analyze and resolve issues through root cause analysis, harnessing both business and technical knowledge to minimize downtime.

• Driver L3 Engineering with global data team, site team and ensuring timely completion

• Develop and maintain scripts, business rules, and LabVantage SDK components to automate data processing and workflow activities.

• Enable service improvement through fixes of incidences

• Support and analyze instrument integ