Associate Director – MES Architect & Technical Lead

Associate Director — MES Architect & Technical Lead

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.

This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly is investing to create several new state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing sites. These brand‑new facilities will utilize the latest technology for API manufacturing and will include several platforms including peptides, small molecules, bio‑conjugates and oligonucleotides drug‑substance manufacturing.

This is an exciting once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site. These new API sites will be built using the latest high‑tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.

You will be part of Tech@Lilly MQ (Manufacturing and Quality), an organization that drives manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts through utilization of technology. Tech@Lilly MQ strives to enable the making of medicine “with safety first and quality always”. The MES Architect & Technical Lead will play a crucial role in delivering the Manufacturing Execution Systems through common Syncade (Software by Emerson) modules that enable manufacturing sites to deliver world‑class performance.

The role encompasses responsibility for both the architectural and technical components of the MES solution, providing expert guidance and oversight in design, implementation, and optimisation to ensure alignment with the organisation’s strategic objectives and operational requirements. A key part of the role is to establish and maintain the direction for Syncade solution architecture in collaboration with the global Syncade Group, implementing and defining standards, best practices, and technical frameworks that steer the development and evolution of the Syncade modules, ensuring consistency, scalability and reliability across all manufacturing sites.

• Utilises solid understanding of Manufacturing and Quality business processes to anticipate MES short‑term and future needs from an IT Architecture standpoint.
• Works with global Architects, Enterprise Architects, local IT teams and other global teams to identify solutions to complex problems related to MES.
• Sets direction through the formation of a strategic roadmap and evolution of the site design for API MES solution and systems interfaced to MES.
• Collaborates, influences and/or leads the definition of global IT support and/or delivery processes.
• Provides deep technical knowledge, monitors solution delivery projects for compliance with the defined reference architecture and proposes and facilitates proof‑of‑concepts to enable clarity around future state direction.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to research, identify, test, certify, select and introduce innovative technology products required for solution development and delivery.
• Collaborates with the Data Management teams to ensure understanding of and alignment with Data Architecture Standards.
• Actively collaborates with Cybersecurity and Protect Lilly teams to introduce operating principles for MQ IDS MES systems, interfaces and architecture (e.g. proper patching process, LCM, software version control).
• Ensures IT vendors understand the Cyber Security and Protect Lilly requirements and can translate these into implementation specifications.
• Acts as interface between IT and Business Partners on (or across) large projects and programs from a technical perspective (e.g. reporting, archival, performance, MES…