Tech@Lilly Infrastructure Architect/Technical Lead

About Lilly

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.

Role Overview

As an Infrastructure Architect-Technical Lead, you will be responsible for owning large-scale initiatives and providing strategic and tactical guidance across Lilly Research Laboratories IT Infrastructure, including networking, storage, and specialized computing. You will be building upon, improving, and refining a robust, resilient technical architecture that serves as the foundation for Laboratory and Clinical Trial Manufacturing solutions that effectively integrate with Lilly’s enterprise infrastructure architecture.

How You'll Succeed

• Multiple Teams: Actively promotes ideas and impacts decisions across multiple teams and capabilities.
• Challenges: Challenges the status quo and provides recommendations to improve processes and drive innovation.
• Coaches: Shares knowledge in specialized technologies for team members to increase their technical growth.
• Designs: Ability to break down moderately sophisticated problems and drive initiatives/solutions to implement for increased business impact.
• Specializes: Recognized expert for one or more technologies and takes initiative to learn new ones (Technical Leadership).
• Looks forward: Broadly understands the platform, the technology architecture context in which it operates, and the business processes it enables. Is recognized as an expert in one or more aspects or subsystems, serving as a coach and resource for other team members. Identifies and implements opportunities to enhance the system to provide greater business value.

What You Should Bring

• A confident problem-solving approach with a natural curiosity.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting sophisticated IT Infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple technical teams simultaneously.
• An attitude for ongoing growth with a drive for technical excellence.
• Ability to coach, mentor and share knowledge with team members, making those around you better.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field OR a high school diploma/GED AND at least 10 years experience working as an IT architect/engineer/tech lead.
• 10+ years of engineering or design experience, developing complex IT infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with enterprise-scale IT infrastructure designs including networks, storage, and compute solutions.
• Experience designing complex IT infrastructure solutions that include cybersecurity best practices.
• Certification(s) demonstrating expert-level knowledge in one or more IT infrastructure specialty areas.

Employment Eligibility

• Qualified US candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States.
• Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Organization Overview

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible 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. Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate.