Automation Architect

Lilly Posted October 25, 2026# Automation Architect Remote, Indiana, United States of America FULL _TIMEInformation Technology Notify me about similar jobs

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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.
** Automation Architect
**** Role summary:
** Security Architecture & Engineering needs an architect to own how the team automates its work, and to manage the engineers who build it. This person designs the automation approach, sets the patterns and standards it is built to, and leads a small team delivering against it.
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* Key responsibilities:

** Own the automation architecture and roadmap for the team; design and build automation that holds up over time; set the harness strategy for agentic workflows; contribute technical input to cloud security and application security direction; and manage and develop a small team of automation engineers.
** Team and collaboration:
** This role manages a small team of automation engineers and works across the full Security Architecture & Engineering team, as well as with platform owners and engineering partners whose systems the automation touches.
** What You'll Be Doing
** As Automation Architect on the Security Architecture & Engineering team, you will own how the team automates its work. You will decide what gets automated and in what order, design the approach, and set the standards the work is built to so it stays reliable as it grows. You will set the harness strategy for how agentic workflows are built, and contribute technical input to the team's direction in cloud security and application security.

You will stay hands-on in the code while managing a small team of engineers, setting their direction, reviewing their work, developing their skills, and accounting for what the team delivers.
** How You'll Succeed
**** Engineering depth:
** You will write production-quality Python and build systems rather than scripts, with error handling, logging, tests, and documentation sufficient for someone else to pick the work up. You will integrate systems through APIs with attention to authentication, rate limiting, pagination, and failure modes.
** Security fluency:
** You will understand the security data you are working with well enough to judge whether the output is sound, and you will recognize when an automated result looks wrong.
** AI-augmented workflow design:
** You will design and operate AI and agentic workflows and own the harness strategy behind them, how agents are scaffolded, what context and tooling they are given, and how their output is evaluated. You will exercise sound judgment on where automation is appropriate and where human review needs to stay in the loop.
** Reliability and maintainability:
** You will build for the long run. What you deliver will be documented, tested, and structured so other engineers can extend it, and you will improve the existing codebase rather than layering new work on top of fragile foundations.
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