IT Enterprise Automation Architect

Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN
27 Feb 2025

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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.

Do you enjoy leading and establishing enterprise automation technologies and capabilities?

The IT Enterprise Platforms organization is actively seeking an architect to partner with internal and external IT partners to accelerate business outcomes for the enterprise through automation. Do you enjoy researching automation successes and creating "game changing" solutions across multiple functions? Do you have a passion for coaching technologists?What You'll Be Doing:

Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Enterprise Platforms, you will lead and establish enterprise automation technologies and capabilities by researching industry innovations and trends, uncovering business use cases, and driving solutions to accelerate business outcomes for the enterprise. There are four primary components to the role: architectural vision and leadership of key initiatives, technical oversight of the portfolio, internal influence to drive automation within business strategies, and external research of use-cases and industry leading technology.How You'll Succeed:
  • Research Externally: Use external information to bring progressive, forward-thinking solutions forward to advance Lilly's automation capabilities. Direct and council leadership about ground-breaking technologies and trends. Anticipate and communicate the implications of technical decisions on the business, systems, and project timelines.
  • Partner: Build effective partnerships and champion continual collaboration across IT to learn and anticipate business trends. Collaborate and investigate to understand business needs and use-cases for automation. Uncover untapped opportunities by driving ideation sessions and conversations.
  • Influence strategy: Provide strategic recommendations to bring in new technologies, maximize the value of current assets, and move away from others. Build roadmaps and gain consensus from enterprise architecture. Influence program priorities based on business need and value gain for Lilly business outcomes.
  • Lead implementations: Drive key automation program initiatives and technology roadmaps. Lead compliant/secure tech implementation. Influence/direct automation toolset implementations to be aligned with strategic roadmap and standards.
  • Manage Automation Portfolio: Maximize value derived from toolset by increasing adoption for large-value adoption ofITcapabilities.
What You Should Bring:
  • Experience as an autonomous IT leader leading large scale portfolios and sophisticated high demanding customers.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence IT and businessstrategies to drive large-scale outcomes.
  • Validated skills of strong learning agility and relationship building to influence change using knowledge and relationships.
  • Successful record of high quality, user focused, on-time & budget IT service and project delivery.
  • 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.
  • A high level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest.
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field OR High School Diploma/GED with 7 years of experience in technology.• Qualified 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.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 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.

The Global Information and Services IT team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy.Travel percentage for this position:

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  • State: Indiana Indianapolis 46201 Indianapolis USA
  • City: Indianapolis
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  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-27
  • Deadline: 2023-04-28
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