SAP DevOps Lead

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work-but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

** Position Overview*
* The App Services team within ERP Services Digital Platforms provides architecture leadership and hands-on technical oversight for Lilly's SAP platform. The SAP Application Development Architect is responsible for automating, validating, and governing SAP platform operations and integration services, including design and delivery of integration solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). The person in this role drives automation-first strategies, partners with global service providers, and ensures platform stability and compliance in a GxP-regulated environment.

** Key Objectives & Deliverables*
* Platform Governance & Architecture

+ Design, automate, and maintain SAP platform management tools including performance monitoring, diagnostics, failover, and availability capabilities.

+ Define and enforce SAP development standards and coding best practices across all vendor and internal development resources.

+ Partner with infrastructure, Basis, and security teams to oversee BTP subaccount governance, Cloud Connector configuration, and BTP consumption management.

+ Evaluate risks for all platform changes while maintaining high availability within the SAP environment.

SAP BTP & Integration Services

+ Lead the delivery of integrations built on SAP Integration Suite (CPI/iFlow) and SAP API Management (APIM).

+ Automate solution delivery processes within the SAP project and release process.

+ Govern integration development for SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-external system scenarios.

+ Oversee BTP platform stability including incident management, iFlow configuration, and scaling for cutover events.

AI-Enabled Tooling & MCP Integration

+ Lead SAP S/4

HANA MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server deployment, including security review, timeline management, and stakeholder communication.

+ Develop and maintain agentic toolkits leveraging MCP frameworks for API contract testing and integration validation.

+ Evaluate and govern BTP API exposure for AI-based use cases, including AI Anomaly Detection and LLM-integrated workflows.

+ Actively apply Claude Enterprise and Lilly Cortex agentic capabilities to drive AI-assisted platform productivity.

Validation & Compliance

+ Lead GxP validation lifecycle for SAP platform changes, including end-to-end test planning, execution, and documentation.

+ Ensure all development and deployment activities follow GMP code review procedures and change management (CTASK) standards.

+ Support Training Critical Verification reviews and maintain compliance with Lilly's SAP Security Access Approval procedures.

+ Act as Local Configuration Manager for SAP platform assets, maintaining accurate representation in CMDB/Service Now.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

+ Provide technical direction for contractor developers across multiple vendors.

+ Engage with enterprise software vendors to drive platform feature adoption, license strategies, and issue resolution with SAP OSS.

+ Translate complex technical platform decisions into clear communications for functional peers, business customers, and leadership.

+ Anticipate implications of technical decisions on regulatory compliance requirements and inform project teams accordingly.

** Basic Requirements*
* + Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

+ 5+ years of experience in platform ownership, Dev Ops, or enterprise automation engineering.

+ 3+ years of experience in a GxP or otherwise regulated environment, including validation lifecycle ownership.

+ Demonstrated experience…