Data Engineer

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.

Bei Lilly in Deutschland planen und bauen wir aktuell eine Hightech-Produktionsstätte in Alzey (Rheinland-Pfalz), die ab 2027 unsere Herstellung von injizierbaren Medikamenten erweitern und bis zu 1.000 Fachkräfte beschäftigen soll. Um das Potenzial unseres innovativen Produktionsstandortes bestmöglich zu nutzen, suchen wir motivierte Verstärkung, die mit uns gemeinsam auf Augenhöhe und unter den drei Lilly-Werten „Exzellenz“, „Integrität“ und „Respekt für Menschen“ die Versorgung von Patient:innen mit Lilly-Medikamenten in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit sicherstellen will.

Responsibility:

The Data Engineer is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to optimize manufacturing processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance product quality. They leverage statistical analysis and data visualization to drive efficiency improvements, prevent equipment downtime, and support continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Data Engineer communicates data insights effectively to stakeholders, contributing significantly to the production of life-saving medicines at our manufacturing site. 

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

The Data Engineer role will have two primary responsibilities:

To partner with the Alzey Site Tech @ Lilly leader and other functions, locally and globally, to generate a data strategy with a portfolio of Alzey data projects.  Once completed, deliver upon the agreed strategy and portfolio to impact business results over the long-term.

Leading small to medium sized projects for new data solutions implementation at Alzey.

In this capacity, the Data Engineer will:

• Create informative and user-friendly dashboards, reports and tools to communicate data insights to stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Utilize advance analytics to prevent downtime to optimize equipment performance and business processes. 
• Collect, clean, and analyze data from various sources, including manufacturing equipment, quality control systems, and laboratory instruments. Use statistical methods and data visualization tools to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Ensure that Data solutions adhere to regulatory requirements and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). 
• Partner with business areas to ensure understanding of current business processes and influence strategic direction as it relates to data collection and analysis.
• Leverage knowledge of local business process needs and strategic direction to influence global data solutions.
• Facilitate collaboration between local business, Tech @ Lilly and global programs to ensure common understanding of business processes and system capabilities, and to identify opportunities.

• Influences business areas’ understanding of their own business processes, identifies new opportunities, challenges the status quo, and helps develop recommendations for using data and data techniques to improve business process productivity.
• Understand global data architecture and replicate solutions from global groups.
• Leverages and integrates external best practices and approaches in recommendations and solutions, as appropriate.
• Influences changes to Tech @ Lilly standards to meet evolving business or industry directions.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in Germany. Lilly does not provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this employment position.
• English fluency, German proficiency preferred

Additional Preferences:

• Strong manufacturing site experience
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, & process improvement skills
• Good communication skills (written/oral)
• Process improvement experience
• Organization skills
• Self-management
• Data Analytics and Machine Learning
• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.
• Knowledgeable of Parenteral Products manufacturing
• Working knowledge of Life Cycle management, Business Process Model, S95 model, LSEF, and other Tech @ Lilly processes

Other Information:

• Travel may be required to other Manufacturing sites in US and/or Europe
• In Office requirement, not a Hybrid or Remote position

What can you look forward to with us?

• Pioneering spirit: Become part of a team of specialized professionals that will grow to up to 1,000 colleagues over the next three years.

• Innovation: You will work in a medical high-tech production facility equipped with the most advanced technology.

• Creative freedom: From the beginning, you will have the freedom to contribute your ideas and implement them in cross-functional teams.

• Development: We value the individual career development of our employees and ensure fair access to professional development worldwide through our "Corporate Lilly University."

• Financial benefits: In addition to your attractive salary, we offer you the option of an excellent company pension plan and other individual benefits.

• Have we piqued your interest? Then please apply online with your complete application documents through our applicant portal. We look forward to your application!

• Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

• Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.