Architect and Product 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 35,000 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.

Organization Overview:

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Does bringing some of the largest transformational changes to clinical research in two decades excite you? Does working in a collaborative team gaining direct experience delivering solutions for patients who are waiting on our medicine advancements sound interesting? On the Clinical Design Medicines Development (MD) IDS team, we work as one team partnering with Medicines Development and the Clinical Design Hub delivering cost-effective science through the development of novel and innovative clinical trial designs and technology solutions. Our business outcomes are focused on speeding drug development and providing the best experience for providers and patients. We have a critical need for a Clinical Design Architect and Product Engineer.

Responsibilities:

As the Clinical Design Architect and Product Engineer, you will work with outstanding and passionate leaders across Clinical Design, Operations, Results, and Development to design, lead, build and implement clinical technology solutions. As the role of clinical technology evolves to now include remote activity management, investigational software, digital endpoints, and novel measurement tools in addition to insights solutions, we need to ensure a comprehensive architecture strategy across all pieces of the portfolio. You will evolve and maintain our portfolio architecture and patterns to ensure we can meet the needs of our patients and providers. You will also engage in technical product development and delivery in addition to proof of concept and prototype activities to inform designs. A successful candidate for the role will have experience in building technology solutions to solve business challenges, strong technical learning agility, experience guiding technical teams, a passion for customer service, GxP environment experience and Agile delivery experience. Initial assignments include evolving and leading the Clinical Design architecture and engaging in key product delivery efforts. Responsibilities include:

Clinical Design Portfolio Architecture

• Define, maintain, and own the portfolio architecture and patterns across Clinical Design products including custom, third party and business supported solutions.
• Develop in-depth business process knowledge and foster strong relationships with business partners and clinical trial teams to inform solutions.
• Lead and define technical architecture strategy and roadmap for Clinical Design products including influencing third party product roadmaps to align to Lilly objectives.
• Drive strategy and implementation of future clinical data flows across all products and ensuring current clinical data flows are well understood and communicated across clinical.
• Lead architecture initiatives across Medicines Development IDS and serve as a member of the architecture office representing Clinical Design.

Product Development Strategy and Delivery

• Deliver clinical design products while understanding and addressing risk, privacy, information security and legal constraints.
• Guide product design and development across the Clinical Design portfolio technically evaluating multiple alternatives to ensure solutions are aligned to architecture strategy while meeting business needs.
• Ensure global privacy and regulatory GxP compliance collaborating with privacy team, quality team and regulators for solutions supporting clinical trials.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams including clinicians, data scientists and data managers to support and evolve clinical design solutions and roadmaps.
• Partner with clinical trial team colleagues to ensure business critical trial needs are met with priority.

Technical Leadership

• Serve as a technical leader across Clinical Design to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and serving the needs of our business and patients.
• Lead and collaborate with Lilly team members and external vendors as necessary for delivery and support of clinical solutions.
• Build deep subject matter expertise in both internally developed and third party provided solutions to engage in hands-on development and support as required and consult on future direction of solutions.
• Play a key, cross functional leadership role across the team to ensure we are aligned on the evolution of a delivery model intended to drive speed to value and innovation in an Agile framework.
• Participate in communities of practice to share knowledge and foster continuous improvement.

Personal Development & Personal Projects

• You will have the opportunity to invest 15% of your time in personal development and/or a personal project of your choice (e.g. Clinical Development Special Project, Clinical Design Special Project, Architecture Office Project, Limiting Bias for Wearable Devices Research)

Basic Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in a technical field
• 5+ years' experience building, developing, and supporting software solutions through the entire SDLC

Additional Preferences:

• Experience leading software product development and support teams
• Experience with Agile and DevOps development methodologies
• Experience with Software Quality Assurance methods and techniques in a GXP environment
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery experience
• Automated testing experience
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (e.g. Java, Node.js, React, C#, C++, Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• AWS, Azure or other cloud-based certifications
• Experience designing and building in cloud database technologies (e.g. Postgres, NoSQL, MySQL, Aurora, etc.)
• Experience with modern software development tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Sauce Labs suite
• Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture
• Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers and leaders
• Comfortable working on projects in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity and change
• Great teammate and creative problem solver with strong communication abilities
• Experience with clinical trial business processes
• Highly adaptable to changing circumstances. Interest in continuously learning new skills and technologies

Additional Information:

• The position is located at Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, IN.
• Primary work shift is 8 hours/day with flex time available around core hours.
• Travel may be required periodically.
• Lilly is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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