Clinical Design Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

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.

Reporting to the Senior Director Clinical Design Tech@Lilly Leader, you will lead, establish clinical design technologies and capabilities by researching industry innovations and trends, uncovering business use cases, and driving solutions to accelerate business outcomes. There are four primary components to the role for the assigned function : shaping architectural vision, leadership of key initiatives, technical oversight of the functional portfolio, and building business relationships to internally influence, align, and serve business outcomes bringing industry leading technology.

The Tech@Lilly Clinical Design Architect is a strategic and influential position and is responsible for shaping, driving, and executing the technical strategy and direction for clinical operations tech agenda and partnering with AI / Automation for projects in the clinical design domain. Partnering with Tech@Lilly leadership, business, and clinical architect leadership, the lead Architect will drive forward the technology direction to enable the modernization and delivery of advanced technologies, using cloud, AI / ML, data, advanced analytics, and automation. Thus, this role will facilitate both creating new technology opportunities aligned to business priorities, as well as enable new business opportunities lead by technology.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and evolve the integration and data architecture for the clinical design ecosystem, including our foundational transformational project Digital Trial Foundations, an attempt at capturing all clinical trial design digital to enable many downstream automation and AI use cases
• Lead the design and governance of scalable, secure, and reusable integration patterns and data pipelines.
• Partner with enterprise architects, vendors, and delivery teams to ensure alignment with Lilly’s architectural standards and long-term strategy.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical architecture and integration blueprints.
• Be informed on and consult on all aspects of the implementation of data ingestion, transformation, and delivery frameworks that support analytics, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Serve as a thought leader in integration modernization, data architecture, and cloud-native design.
• Coach / guide team and leaders on architecture considerations relevant to their area of responsibility.

How You’ll Succeed

What You Should Bring

Basic Qualifications

Additional Preferences

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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

$123,000 - $180,400

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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