Engineering Manager

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 35,000 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.

Come develop great software solutions to solve exciting problems to help patients!

The Software Product Engineering team is actively looking for an Software Engineering Manager. Are you determined to deliver the best user-centered solutions? Are you interested in shaping the next generation of application development? If so, please apply.

What You'll Be Doing

As the leader of a team of software engineers, focused on patient engagement, you will use the best of what modern web technologies and architecture has to offer, to design solutions that transform patient experiences and improve treatment outcomes. These products will meet patients where they are at due to your close collaboration with our user-experience team. You will partner with peers to influence the development process as we scale, to create an impactful operation that is responsive to both business and patient needs.

How You'll Succeed

• As a Software Engineering manager, you will bring both your leadership and technical experience to design and build applications that exceed product goals and transform the ecosystem.
• Leveraging your strong background in software engineering to guide the teams work, help solve complex problems and set technology and architecture directions for products and platforms.
• By maximizing the potential of your team, providing guidance, mentorship and growth opportunities while fostering a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation.

• Matching unique product needs to the resources and skills within your team, while managing and forecasting resources needs to keep up with demand.
• Driving process change, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• As a superb communicator and influencer with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively with your team and product stakeholders.
• Setting clear, objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team understanding of expectations and priorities.

What You Should Bring

• Experience leading complex engineering projects from inception to production.
• Professional work experience in software engineering, building customer facing applications using Node.js, Vue.js, Python, Java, Scala, Go or Rust.
• Experience in full stack development including RESTFul APIs, SOA/MSA, Message brokers (Kafka), Distributed Data Management (NoSQL, Event sourcing), Observability (Grafana), Splunk, Devops, CI/CD, Nginx and AWS/Azure.
• A strong ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing their solutions
• Demonstrated ability to scope, schedule and resource multiple complex projects in collaboration with other cross functional partners.
• Self-motivated, independent, and proactive, with outstanding communication skills. Can effectively communicate complex ideas and make compelling arguments
• Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience working in a fast-paced environment with frequent context switching.
• A working understanding of core concepts related to Machine Learning/AI and Data Engineering.
• Distributed data storage and processing framework experience (Spark and Hadoop)
• Experiencing growing and maturing software engineering teams to efficiently deliver high quality software products.

Your Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 5 or more years working in software engineer roles

• 3 or more years of experience as a software engineering manager
• Experience with web and cloud technologies

About the Organization -

Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities 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.

Lilly's Software Product Engineering (SPE) organization is focused on building core foundational software platforms to accelerate our ability to reach and support patients digitally. This organization is powered by software engineering experts that solve challenging problems around patient engagement and drug discovery with code.

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