Advisor Clinical Tech Systems Engineering CT Design and Operations

Advisor

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.

The Advisor is a senior technical leader supporting Clinical Tech Design & Operations, responsible for tackling the toughest problems and shaping modern, resilient solutions that power clinical design and operational delivery across a large and fast-evolving ecosystem. At the R8 level, the Advisor owns the technical direction of initiatives in partnership with business owners to maximize value, bringing deep data and solution integration expertise to connect design and operational systems reliably tnering tightly with Software Product Engineering, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure & Digital Core, the Advisor drives shared strategies and secure-by-design architectures, while researching and applying emerging technology—including AI and agentic engineering—to advance capability and drive adoption.

• Own the technical direction of complex initiatives across clinical design and operations, shaping modern, resilient, secure solutions.
• Lead data and solution integration across the ecosystem, ensuring reliable, performant connectivity between design and operational systems, data products, and services.
• Partner tightly with Software Product Engineering, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure & Digital Core to drive aligned strategies, shared standards, and secure-by-design architectures.
• Research and apply emerging technology—AI/ML, agentic workflows, intelligent automation—driving adoption.
• Champion modernization and resilience, reducing technical debt and improving fault tolerance, observability, and recoverability.
• Embed secure and AI-assisted engineering (code generation, automated testing, anomaly detection, threat-aware design) to accelerate delivery and improve operational quality.
• Serve as a recognized expert, defining integration patterns and engineering standards adopted across design and operations teams.
• Elevate technical colleagues by sharing data, integration, and security knowledge to broaden team impact.
• Improve engineering processes and guide the organization through change.
• Gain support for and influence initiatives spanning clinical design and operations, engineering, cyber, and infrastructure.
• Provide authoritative troubleshooting leadership on complex integration, operational, and design-system challenges.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Extensive software/systems engineering experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale solutions with clear technical ownership.
• Strong data and solution integration experience across large, complex, evolving ecosystems.
• Recognized depth in one or more technologies, able to set integration standards and guide other engineers.
• Hands-on experience applying AI in day-to-day engineering.
• Strong proficiency across integrations, APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience designing resilient solutions in partnership with engineering, cyber, and infrastructure teams.
• Proven ability to solve the toughest technical problems affecting operations at scale.
• Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Strong communication and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Experience in clinical development, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), or a regulated (GxP) environment within pharmaceutical,…