Software Product Engineering Technical Lead​/Manager - Silicon Valley Hub

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.

Technology continues to transform every aspect of society, including healthcare. Lilly envisions digital capabilities as an extension of our medicines, not just a marketing tactic. We, as consumers, have come to expect digital experiences to augment and support our experiences with medicines — especially to help reduce the burden of coping and managing through chronic disease for us, our loved ones, and health care providers.

Hence, Lilly's Software Product Engineering team is committed to exploring how next-generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers, and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly — improve patient outcomes.

The SPE Technical Lead & Engineering Manager will be responsible for developing and leading technical solutions supporting one or more Digital Health platforms. You will need to engage multiple teams to define technical requirements, develop designs, and align technology that enables the platform architecture all while meeting medical device regulatory expectations. Additionally, the organization will look to you to be a leader across SPE projects influencing other tech leads in how we develop platform solutions following best practices and driving our platform innovation roadmap.

• Own and approve system architecture and design decisions across your platform area.
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure consistent, scalable, and resilient implementation.
• Partner with product and design teams to architect maintainable solutions and evaluate UX feasibility.
• Collaborate with other technical teams on the design of dependencies and shared services.
• Provide technical evaluation of proposed ideas, software changes, and future releases.
• Align SPE technical solutions with Lilly-supported technologies.

• Directly manage a team of 2–5 engineers.
• Own performance management, coaching, career development.
• Set team priorities, manage capacity and workload, and remove obstacles to delivery.
• Foster team health, engagement, and a high-performing engineering culture in a geographically separate location.
• Partner with the Delivery Manager on staffing, planning, and delivery commitments.

• Drive the development and execution of the platform innovation roadmap, including working proof-of-concept models in new technology spaces.
• Provide input on future features and strategy across a 6–12 month horizon.
• Lead cutover planning and ensure system dependencies are well understood and delivered appropriately.
• Identify and scope spike work; recommend new technologies and tools.
• Support and drive transformation initiatives.
• Champion the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices — including AI-augmented development tooling — to accelerate delivery, raise code quality, and expand team capacity.

• Enable technical delivery of SPE software components, including understanding and addressing risk, privacy, cybersecurity, and legal constraints.
• Support cybersecurity architecture evaluations.
• Develop and drive adoption of platform development standards and architecture patterns across the organization.
• Maintain technical documentation, including system design artifacts, security plans, and SOPs.
• Document open-source standards in the Quality Management System and enforce SPE engineering standards.
• Apply knowledge of medical device…