Sr. Director- Software Engineering Manager

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.

Come develop great software solutions to solve exciting problems to help patients!

The Software Product Engineering organization is actively looking for a Software Engineering Manager. Are you determined to deliver the best user-centered solutions? Are you ready to own the technical strategy for one or more domains and shape the next generation of application development at Lilly?

As the leader of an engineering team accountable for one or more domains, or bounded contexts, within our Commercial or Clinical portfolio, you will set the multi-year technical direction for those domains and use the best of what modern web technologies and architecture have to offer, to design solutions that transform patient experiences and improve treatment outcomes. These products will meet patients where they are due to your close collaboration with our user-experience, product, business, medical, and regulatory partners.

You will define the engineering standards, platform investments, and ways of working that extend beyond your own team, and you will partner with business and technology leaders to translate portfolio strategy into a funded, staffed engineering roadmap that is responsive to both business and patient needs. You will also ready your domains for an agentic future: raising the team’s fluency with AI-assisted engineering, designing systems and data so that well-governed APIs, tools, and context are available for agents to act on safely, and making deliberate, evidence-based choices about where AI and agentic capabilities create real value for the business and for patients rather than novelty.

• As a Software Engineering Manager, you will bring both your leadership and technical depth to set direction for the applications and platform capabilities across your domains that exceed product goals and transform the ecosystem.
• Leveraging your strong background in software engineering to guide the team’s work, resolve the most ambiguous and technically complex problems, and own technology and architecture direction for the products and platforms in your domains, including build-versus-buy, platform consolidation, and technical-debt investment decisions that play out over multiple planning cycles.
• Owning a multi-year technical roadmap for your domains: sequencing platform investment against business outcomes, quantifying the trade-offs, and defending that plan in annual planning and funding cycles.
• By maximizing the potential of your team, providing guidance, mentorship and growth opportunities, deepening the technical capability of the team, and deliberately developing the next generation of technical leads and people managers, while fostering a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation.
• Matching unique product needs to the resources and skills within your team, while owning headcount planning, budget, and vendor and partner sourcing for your domains, and forecasting capacity several quarters ahead against a demand pipeline you help shape.
• Driving process change beyond your own team, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools to improve efficiency,…