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.
Come develop great software solutions to solve exciting problems to help patients!
The Software Product Engineering team is actively looking for a Senior Director -Software Engineering & Product Delivery. Are you determined to deliver the best user-centered solutions? Are you interested in shaping the next generation of application development? If so, please apply.
What You’ll Be Doing
As the leader of a software delivery team dedicated to patient engagement products, you will employ modern technologies, architectures, and agile methodologies to drive solution design and delivery, enhancing patient experiences and improving treatment outcomes. Through close collaboration with our user experience and technology foundation teams, you will ensure that these products effectively address patients' needs. Furthermore, you will work in partnership with peers to influence and refine the development process as we scale, establishing an operation that is both impactful and adaptive to business and patient requirements.
How You’ll Succeed:
- As a Delivery Leader, you will bring your leadership, strategy and technical experience to design and build applications that exceed product goals and transform the ecosystem.
- Leveraging your strong background in software product delivery you will guide the teams work, resourcing, budgeting and help solve complex problems, ensuring delivery success.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to develop and influence roadmaps and release plans, ensuring alignment between features and business value across the delivery team.
- By maximizing the potential of your team, providing guidance, mentorship while fostering a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation.
- Driving process change, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
- As a superb communicator and influencer with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively with your team and product stakeholders.
- Setting clear, objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team understanding of expectations and priorities.
What You Should Bring:
- Experience leading complex software engineering projects from inception to production.
- Professional experience in software delivery, specializing in the development of customer-facing applications using tools such as Jira and Confluence, with a strong proficiency in agile delivery methodologies
- An ability to think bigger, develop and drive strategy at the ecosystem level shaping the technology and experience customer receive
- Demonstrated ability to scope, schedule and resource multiple complex projects in collaboration with other cross functional partners.
- Self-motivated, independent, and proactive professional with exceptional communication skills. Capable of effectively conveying complex ideas and presenting compelling arguments in both technical and non-technical contexts.
- Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience working in a fast-paced environment with frequent context switching.
- A working understanding of core concepts related to Web Development, Machine Learning/AI and Data Engineering.
- Experiencing growing and maturing software engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality software products.
Your Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related technical field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technical delivery, or solution leadership roles
- 5+ years owning end-to-end delivery of software solutions
- Experience with web and cloud technologies
Additional Information:
- This role is located in Indianapolis, IN (relocation required)
About the Organization:
Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking 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.
Lilly’s Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is focused on building core foundational software platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support patients digitally. This organization is powered by software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around patient engagement and drug discovery with code.
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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$157,500 - $231,000
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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