Senior Director of Engineering

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.

About the Organization:

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.

Software Engineering Platform team within the larger SPE organization is the group that is responsible for Lilly's Enterprise-DevSecOps platform, SaaS management, InnerSourcing and Developer experience and the future of the org is to build a composable engineering platform that can be leveraged across Lilly's value chain.

Come build the next generation engineering platform, so we can reach and support more patients digitally!

The Software Product Engineering team is actively looking for a technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment! Are you a product centric and engineering minded leader who can accelerate transformation? If so, please apply.

Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing

We are looking for a Sr. Director of Engineering who will lead this group, shaping the future of Lilly's Software Engineering Platform by being both a product centric and engineering minded leader. You will be responsible for the platform that delivers our software and in ideation, design, and development of what's to come. We are exposed to a fast-paced engineering environment that is looking to transform engineering at Lilly.

What You Should Bring:

• Build, lead and manage distributed teams of high performance engineers
• Build engineering platform to deliver functional capabilities
• Grow and develop engineering talent across the organization
• Create an observability stack setting KPIs, SLAs & other effectiveness metrics using a data drive approach
• Set high quality standards for engineering across the organization
• Partner and collaborate across the organization
• Evaluate and evangelize new technologies to push our capabilities
• Manage a multitude of products at scale
• Willing to dive in and support technical challenges in the software and infrastructure space

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 8+ years working in the software engineering field
• 3+ years of proven technical leadership, key decision making and process re-engineering experience

Additional Skills:

• Track record of building and running customer facing bespoke applications/platforms with modern tech stack
• Experience with architectural patterns of distributed applications on cloud
• Experience in these or similar tools/tech - Shell, Bash, C++, Python, Java, Javascript, Golang, Rust, Git, Kubernetes, Chef, AWS, Azure, Splunk, etc.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, security as it relates to DevSecOps and Agile program management
• Web Security and Healthcare compliance experience is a plus
• Experience with Data Engineering/Platform is a big plus
• Effectively worked with senior leadership in setting strategic quarterly direction
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
• Proactive, demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and strong ability to drive peers and above to timely decisions
• Driven with a high level of intellectual curiosity and innovation
• Hands on technical experience in the software engineering

Additional Preferences:

• Hybrid role

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