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.

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

$123,000 - $180,400

Do you have experience making strategy and implementation decisions for a group of multiple, related applications or systems within a function? Are you interested in learning new technologies and business areas? Do you possess deep expertise in technology and coaching others in best practices?

Global Services (GS), Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) is actively seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to collaborate across GS functions and establish innovative solutions that power the future of Global Services and deliver the next generation of technical transformation.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The EBS Solution Architect designs and implements secure, scalable IT solutions for Global Services. They drive strategy and decisions across complex applications or systems, collaborating with Technology at Lilly and business teams to deliver key outcomes. The architect ensures adherence to Lilly's operational, architectural, security, and design standards while overseeing the strategy's implementation.

How You’ll Succeed:

Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and assists with developing system designs and requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business.Lead requirements capturing exercises, understanding the “what” and “why” from a business perspective before figuring out technology “how”. Partner with internal and external technical teams to understand and influence the appropriate menu of technologies and tools to be used for solution delivery efforts.Provide deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs (focused on detailed design principles, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT) to help guide the architecture lifecycle and assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.Supports product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services, or systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information). Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

What You Should Bring:

All solution architecture roles should have a foundational set of knowledge in: Demonstrated communication, leadership, teamwork, project delivery, and problem-solving skillsExperienced in architectural processes (e.g. blueprinting, reference architecture, governance, etc.)Experience designing or delivering AI enabled products or servicesHealth care industry knowledge and business acumenExperience as an autonomous IT leader leading large-scale portfolios and sophisticated high demanding customers.Demonstrated ability to influence IT and business strategies to drive large-scale outcomes.Experience with formal project management methodologies, agile frameworks (including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and working knowledge of associated practices and tools.Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills, working across agile and diverse teams.Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, like PostgreSQL and DynamoDBKnowledge of frontend web development languages, like JavaScript, React.js, HTML and CSSKnowledge of various backend development languages, like node.js and PythonAWS or Microsoft Certified Cloud Solution Architect ProfessionalExperience with cloud-based provide Restful API services for integrationsExperience with support of high availability environments (servers, storage & database) and complex disaster recovery systemsKnowledge of enterprise networking architectureAbility to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiencesAbility to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situationsDemonstrated ability to think creatively about complex business problems and resolve these through new approachesSkilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peersExperience in integrating on hybrid cloud solutions

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related scientific discipline. Minimum 5 years of IT experience or related fieldMinimum 3 years hands-on experience using AWS services (e.g., S3, EC2, Lambda, Glue, CloudFormation, and API Gateway)Minimum 3 years experience with Agile, DevOps, Jira, Confluence, and GitHubMinimum 3 years experience with modern security protocols such as OAuth, JSON Web Tokens, Kerberos, TLS/SSLMinimum 5 years demonstrated experience SQL and SSMS

About the Organization:

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.

The Global Services Tech team leads digitalization across organizations spanning the enterprise with Finance, Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Corporate Affairs and Human Resources as well delivers best-in-class ERP Solutions.   This team leverages technology and analytics to enable transformations across the enterprise.

Additional Information: 

Travel 0-30%Potential to work after hours

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and help our company develop talented individuals for future leadership roles. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, African American Network, Chinese Culture Network, Early Career Professionals, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinos at Lilly, PRIDE (LGBTQ + Allies), Veterans Leadership Network, Women’s Network, Working and Living with Disabilities. Learn more about all of our groups.

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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