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.
Are you interested in using technology to automate and transform business processes?
The Tech@Lilly Automation Strategy and Operations team is seeking to add a technical leader role to the team. This role will have an engineering focus and help drive the strategic architecture and technology direction for the team across key capabilities of automation within Lilly’s Automation Center of Excellence.
Are you innovative and curious about new technology that can make business processes easy and more efficient? Come join our team!
In this position, you will impact the way automation is delivered across the company. To do this, you will help evaluate and implement automation tools, expand the catalog of connectors and APIs, create reusable components with an intent toward self-service, and engage in other engineering related activities.
Develop a deep technical understanding of automation solutions 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, and identify opportunities for automation reuse and self-service across the enterprise.
Continuously evaluate automation tools/technologies. Understand the current automation technology landscape and the breadth of functionality available. After leading the automation technology evaluation process and selection, you will lead the implementation of bringing the technology into the environment, including the strategy for reusable templates and APIs for automation consumption.
Lead the automation platform architecture operations, ensuring that all automation technologies are stable, secure, performant, compliant, resilient, and reliable for usage at scale.
Lead the development of an integration strategy, including use of connectors and APIs to accelerate delivery and to be consumed by both the business and the internal team.
Develop and maintain an improved automation metrics and KPI strategy, including definitions, measurements, automated notifications, and dashboards/visualizations tracking the teams internal service delivery as well as business specific KPIs.
Collaborate with the delivery team to anticipate demand and incorporate new capabilities and technologies into the enterprise automation portfolio.
Experience as a technical leader, influencing strategic direction and driving implementation of multiple technical projects, systems, and applications.
Demonstrated agility to rapidly understand new technologies and the infrastructure/architectures to support them, deep understanding of hybrid cloud and cloud native architectures, integration strategies, and security to assess value, and to capture core use cases.
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 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.
Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
A high level of intellectual and technical curiosity, open to continuous improvement and ability to drive innovation within the team.
Deep expertise in AWS or Azure as well as tech involving business automation solutions, end-to-end workflows, process improvement and optimization, content management, chat bots, robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, and automated testing and frameworks
Experience using project delivery frameworks and methodologies such as Agile Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. and demonstrated experience in industry best practices and automation tools.
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, etc.)
Deep expertise in end-to-end DevOps (Jira, GitHub, GitHub Action, CI/CD)
Understanding of Automation tools like WalkMe, BAW, ODM etc.
Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT 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 Global Information and Services (GIS) tech team leads and owns the DIGITAL CORE, tech platforms for business scale, speed and innovation. This team champions unparalleled EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCES and DIGITALLY EMPOWERED TEAMS to inspire new ways of working and increased productivity. As leaders in technology, this team catalyzes and connects TECH INNOVATION AND AGILITY across the enterprise, leading the overall company technology strategy.
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