Director - Catalyze360 Product Architect

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 innovative team as the Lead Platform Architect, where you’ll harness ground breaking technology to redefine data solutions driving the advancement of medicine!

Are you passionate about using platform architecture and technology to answer business and scientific questions? If so, bring YOUR skills and talents to Lilly where you’ll have the chance to create an impact on the lives of patients!

What You'll Be Doing:

As the Lead Platform Architect, you will guide the design, development, and deployment of a large-scale IT ecosystem that will drive innovation in pharmaceutical R&D. You will lead sophisticated, multi-functional teams through a strategic technology implementation. This implementation will involve pivotal decisions around build vs. buy solutions, system integration, and the incorporation of innovative AI technologies. Collaborating with partners from R&D, AI, and Business Development ensuring the creation of a scalable, secure, and innovative technology platform that accelerates medicine discovery and development for Lilly and Lilly’s biotech partners.

How You'll Succeed:

• Collaborate with diverse teams, including R&D, Data Science, IT Operations, and AI/ML teams, to ensure that technology decisions match business objectives and scientific goals.
• Drive the integration of multiple technologies and platforms, including legacy systems, external solutions, and modern AI tools, ensuring seamless interoperability and data flow.
• Incorporate sophisticated AI/ML capabilities into the IT ecosystem to enable data-driven insights, automation of complex processes, and acceleration of drug discovery timelines.
• Establish and administer optimal procedures, standards, and guidelines for system architecture, security, and data privacy across the IT realm.
• Ensure the architecture is scalable to support growth in data, user needs, and evolving technology trends, while maintaining performance and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with senior leadership, business units, and external partners to communicate architectural vision, gain agreement on priorities, and navigate technical challenges.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with sophisticated technical decisions, especially those concerning integration, scalability, security, and AI-powered advancements.

What You Should Bring:

• Strong leadership skills capable of influencing and guiding multi-functional teams in a complicated, matrixed environment.
• Experience in making intricate architectural decisions, especially regarding build vs. buy solutions, with a clear understanding of trade-offs, costs, and risks.
• Deep expertise in cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP), AI/ML platforms, enterprise integration patterns (API, microservices), and data management (structured/unstructured data, data lakes).
• Ability to balance long-term strategic vision with immediate business needs, navigating technical challenges with a pragmatic approach.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry is highly preferred.

Your Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT architecture, with a proven track record of leading large-scale, cross-functional IT implementations.

Additional Information:

• Position requires work schedule flexibility, availability outside of regular business hours as needed to support business critical activities.
• Travel Percentage: 20%

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible 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, s