Tech@Lilly Infrastructure Architect/Technical Lead

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

As a Infrastructure Architect-Technical Lead, you will be responsible for owning large-scale initiatives and providing strategic and tactical guidance across Lilly Research Laboratories IT Infrastructure, including networking, storage, and specialized computing.  You will be building upon, improving, and refining a robust, resilient technical architecture that serves as the foundation for Laboratory and Clinical Trial Manufacturing solutions that effectively integrate with Lilly’s enterprise infrastructure architecture.
 

How You'll Succeed: 

• Multiple Teams: Actively promotes ideas and impacts decisions across multiple teams and capabilities
• Challenges: Challenges the status quo and provides recommendations to improve processes and drive innovation.
• Coaches: Shares knowledge in specialized technologies for team members to increase their technical growth.
• Designs: Ability to break down moderately sophisticated problems and drive initiatives/solutions to implement for increased business impact.
• Specializes: Recognized expert for one or more technologies and takes initiative to learn new ones (Technical Leadership)
• Looks forward: Broadly understands the platform, the technology architecture context in which it operates, and the business processes it enables. Is recognized as an expert in one or more aspects or subsystems, serving as a coach and resource for other team members. Identifies and implements opportunities to enhance the system to provide greater business value.

What You Should Bring: 

• A confident problem-solving approach with a natural curiosity
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting sophisticated IT Infrastructure solutions
• Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple technical teams simultaneously
• An attitude for ongoing growth with a drive for technical excellence
• Ability to coach, mentor and share knowledge with team members, making those around you better

Basic Requirements: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field OR a high school diploma/GED AND at least 10 years experience working as an IT architect/engineer/tech lead.
• 10 + years of engineering or design experience, developing complex IT infrastructure solutions
• Experience with enterprise-scale IT infrastructure designs including networks, storage, and compute solutions.
• Experience designing complex IT infrastructure solutions that include cybersecurity best practices
• Certification(s) demonstrating expert-level knowledge in one or more IT infrastructure specialty areas

Qualified US candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Organization Overview:

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate the Research and Development of medicines and to deliver therapeutic innovations. The team leverages technology and platforms to streamline scientific experimentation to help Researchers follow the science, to understand the disease and identify potential therapies. They are at the forefront of advanced analytics to enable data driven drug discovery; to innovate so Scientists can rapidly analyze and accelerate the discovery of new medicines.

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Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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