Manager – Tech@Lilly SPE, LCCI

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.

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Manager – Tech@Lilly SPE, LCCI

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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 and partners 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 are looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the globe.

Tech@Lilly Software Product Engineering (SPE) team is a specialized engineering group that delivers strategic solutions and differentiated capabilities. We take a forward-thinking approach, focusing on an enterprise platform and product mindset, ensuring that the solutions we build can be leveraged across Tech@Lilly teams for broader impact and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide deep leadership and coaching in the project delivery lifecycle. Focus on shared learning, continuous improvement and drive adoption of best practices
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, teamwork and people development
• Provide mentorship to accelerate the development of solution architecture and technical expertise, specific to the Tech@Lilly environment
• Expert in Software architecture design patterns and the ability to select based on needs and budget. Understand the business processes being supported by the team
• Coach and develop team members through performance management, development planning, promotion and career plans; represent those team members in talent discussions.
• Resourcing - continue the team growth through selection techniques, testing and interviews.
• Organize your work within an Agile team & Knowledge on Sprint ceremonies (Planning, Estimation, Execution, Reporting & highlight Risks & Impediments)
• Identifies synergies and reuse opportunities to improve efficiency
• Identifies and drives proof of concepts for emerging technologies at Lilly and helps team prepare for the adoption of these technologies

Key Skills:

• Demonstrate excellent communication, leadership, critical thinking, collaboration and decision-making skills
• Possess a positive and energetic attitude, with a view to moving the business forward
• Strong self-management and ability to work in ambiguity
• Experience leading highly motivated engineers, with specialized skills and diverse functional elements.
• Understanding and knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies (such as agile software development and DevSecOps)
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Understanding of software architecture, design principles to guide the development team

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of management of a team or teams, should be able to lead a team of around 12+ people
• Minimum 10 years of total experience
• Proven track record in capacity management and project estimation
• Strong background having breadth of experience and technical knowledge
• Lead teams to rationalize, optimize and support applications for maximum speed and scalability with industry best practices
• Proven experience leading a team in a regulated industry including but not limited to, understanding regulations, SOPs
• Preferred to have experience / interest related to Pharma domain
• Preferred certification in one of fields PMP, PMI, PRINCE II, Safe , CSM, SEI etc

Technical Role Objective:

• Proven development experience with Python, React or other Python-based frameworks
• Experience working with Microservices/Service Oriented Architecture Frameworks
• Experience in working in Scrum - agile methodologies, coding standards, programming, code reviews, source management (GitHub Actions), build processes and Jira
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS and Azure
• Work in tandem with our engineering partners to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Build effective relationships with business areas, strategic vendors, and key delivery partners and group to share expertise and seek opportunities to reuse internal processes and services, so we can streamline implementation and support of key systems

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.

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