Engineer - Automation Engineering – Control System Data Analyst

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Engineer – Automation Engineering – Control System Data Analyst

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.

Lilly recently announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. The first‑ever facility of its kind, combining research and manufacturing in a single location, will allow Lilly to further develop innovative solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and increase capacity for clinical trial medicines, while also reducing costs and environmental impact.

The Engineer – Automation Engineering – Control System Data Analyst is a technical individual contributor for the Foundry Automation Engineering Team. This person provides data engineering and analytics solutions for the Foundry Automation Engineering organization. They collaborate with Automation Engineers and System Administrators to maintain, configure, and troubleshoot the various automation control systems and interfaces that support data historization and analytics for the Foundry.

The role supports daily operations, contributes to the productivity and reliability of control applications, and influences the process control technical agenda, business plan priorities, and compliance objectives across functional disciplines.

During the project delivery and start‑up phase (expected 2025‑2028) engineering roles will be fluid and dynamic to support project delivery, build a new organization, implement systems and business processes required for GMP operations, and build the site culture. Significant collaboration, creativity, and resilience are required as the site grows to a full‑scale GMP manufacturing operation.

• Provide input to design decisions regarding the development and integration of automation data analytics systems and overall Foundry data analytics initiatives.
• Lead development and implementation of analytics strategies and tools for metrics, visualization, and dashboards across multiple platforms and functional areas.
• Interface with Automation teams and user groups to develop requirements and designs that meet business needs.
• Promote the use of data analytics to support achievement of site business goals, including training on analytics tools and techniques across the Automation Engineering organization.
• Support qualification and delivery of automation servers, network and infrastructure, and applications.
• Support the Process Control Validation Plan, CSV, quality documents, SOPs, and audit readiness.

• Support execution, creation, review, and approval of documentation associated with procedure‑driven compliance activities such as periodic reviews and application recovery processes as part of business continuity initiatives.
• Support key business processes such as audit, investigation, and CAPA.
• Monitor, administer, and optimize automation quality deliverables (incidents, actions, deviations, resolutions).
• Act as system owner for the electronic testing system (Kneat, ALM, Valgenesis) managing CSV documents related to automation systems.
• Administer relational databases with RDBMS tools such as Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio; basic to intermediate competency with SQL, Power BI, and software development applications.
• Experience with data flows and interfaces associated with instrumentation and system integration protocols is a plus.
• Provide support for computer system data architecture and data integrity for automation systems across the site, including Service Now, Veeva, DCS/SCADA/BMS/MES/Historian systems such as Delta
  
  V, FT, Metasys, Aveva PI, Ignition, WIN
  911, and LMS (Success Factors).
• Ensure…