Associate Director - Infrastructure 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 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.

This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!

Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing to create a new state-of-the-art manufacturing site, in Lebanon, Indianapolis. The brand-new facility will utilize the latest technology for API Manufacturing and will include several platforms including Peptides, Small Molecules and Oligonucleotides Drug Substance Manufacturing. This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site.  The Lilly LP1 Lebanon site will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will be part of Tech@Lilly MQ (Manufacturing and Quality), an organization that drives manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts through utilization of technology. Tech@Lilly MQ strives to enable the making of medicine “with safety first and quality always”.

As an Infrastructure Architect your main function is the strategy, implementation and direction for IT managed site infrastructure including but not limited to business and manufacturing workstations, peripherals, printers, telecom, and others. The role will support multiple business groups such as Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Technical services/Manufacturing Science. The resource will also participate in ad-hoc site infrastructure projects and ensure enterprise and organizational cybersecurity practices are followed. . 

How You’ll Succeed:

• Be a hands-on technical leader of technical specialists, focusing on service excellence,
• continued learning and innovation.
• Advocate for the advancement, innovation, and simplification of infrastructure services.
• Provide input to Business Plan and site strategic exercises to evolve and appropriately
• lifecycle infrastructure components and capabilities.
• Design and implement standard processes to enable operational excellence in the delivery
• of services.
• Understand and translate business operational requirements holistically with other
• technology partners to ensure the appropriate infrastructure foundation is capable, resilient,
• and scalable.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of business processes on site, applying this knowledge
• to technical solutions that support and enhance these processes.
• Work with representatives across the site to analyze possibilities and implement solutions
• that improve business value.
• Critically evaluate user requests, using technical and process knowledge to determine
• underlying business needs.
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development and integration of IT solutions that
• support systems and business processes, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in cybersecurity, networking, storage,
• and compute, continuously seeking openings to innovate and improve existing systems.
• Perform technical requirements analysis of IT managed peripheral devices used at the facility – printers, barcode scanners, etc 
• Coordinate with other Lilly groups and vendors regarding requirements, operating system requirements, additional hardware requirements and costs 

• Assist with validation of new and existing systems by providing technical design information to assure GMP data integrity  

What You Should Bring:

• GMP knowledge and training 
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise networking, cybersecurity, and connected devices
• (workstations/PCs/peripherals) including hands-on experience with configuring connected
• devices for operation in enterprise segmented network environments.
• Demonstrated experience in the design, development, and delivery of
• manufacturing/clinical development IT infrastructure capabilities.
• Knowledge of enterprise compute and storage architecture, patterns, and solutions.
• Expertise cyber