Associate Director - Site Infrastructure Architect

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. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world.

Lilly is investing to create a new state-of-the-art manufacturing site, in Richmond, Virginia. The brand-new facility will utilize the latest technology for API Manufacturing and will include several platforms including Next Generation Biotechnology and Bioconjugates . This is an exciting once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help build and operate a new site. The Lilly will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, advanced highly integrated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment.

You will be part of Tech at Lilly MQ (Manufacturing and Quality), an organization that drives manufacturing operational excellence and productivity efforts through utilization of technology. Tech at Lilly MQ strives to enable the making of medicine “with safety first and quality always”. As an Infrastructure Architect your main function is the strategy, implementation and direction for IT managed site infrastructure including but not limited to business and manufacturing workstations, peripherals, printers, telecom, and others.

The role will support multiple business groups such as Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Technical services/Manufacturing Science. The resource will also participate in ad-hoc site infrastructure projects and ensure enterprise and organizational cybersecurity practices are followed.

• Be a hands-on technical leader of technical specialists, focusing on service excellence, continued learning and innovation.
• Advocate for the advancement, innovation, and simplification of infrastructure services.
• Provide input to Business Plan and site strategic exercises to evolve and appropriately lifecycle infrastructure components and capabilities.
• Design and implement standard processes to enable operational excellence in the delivery of services.
• Understand and translate business operational requirements holistically with other technology partners to ensure the appropriate infrastructure foundation is capable, resilient, and scalable.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of business processes on site, applying this knowledge to technical solutions that support and enhance these processes.
• Work with representatives across the site to analyze possibilities and implement solutions that improve business value.
• Critically evaluate user requests, using technical and process knowledge to determine underlying business needs.
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development and integration of IT solutions that support systems and business processes, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in cybersecurity, networking, storage, and compute, continuously seeking openings to innovate and improve existing systems.
• Perform technical requirements analysis of IT managed peripheral devices used at the facility – printers, barcode scanners,…