Solution Architect

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

Do you enjoy driving strategy and implementation decisions across a large, complex group of multiple, related applications or systems a across a function? Do you enjoy learning new technologies and business areas? Do you have a passion for technology and coaching others in best practices?

Global Services (GS), Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) is actively seeking a solutions architect to partner with internal business and Technology at Lilly partners to establish solution designs.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The solution architect is accountable for the strategy definition of end-to-end solutions, aligned to Lilly operational, architectural, security, and design standards and principles, as well as overseeing the implementation of that strategy. Implementation includes planning, analyzing, designing, testing, and deploying large-scale business solutions in response to business needs.

A solution architects posses a deep working knowledge of application architectures, platform capabilities, and cloud solutions. In this role you will partner with Lilly Legal business partners, EBS leaders, project sponsors/owners, and external suppliers to design and implement applications, platforms, and cloud solutions across the Legal technology portfolio. Additionally, this position will partner with the Legal business and EBS team to deliver on key objectives and enable transformation initiatives.

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 skills
  • Experienced in architectural processes (e.g. blueprinting, reference architecture, governance, etc.)
  • Experience designing or delivering AI enabled products or services
  • Health care industry knowledge and business acumen

• Experience 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 DynamoDB
• Knowledge of frontend web development languages, like JavaScript, React.js, HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of various backend development languages, like node.js and Python
• AWS or Microsoft Certified Cloud Solution Architect Professional
• Experience with cloud-based provide Restful API services for integrations
• Experience with support of high availability environments (servers, storage & database) and complex disaster recovery systems
• Knowledge of enterprise networking architecture
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively about complex business problems and resolve these through new approaches
• Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of IT experience or related field
• Minimum 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 GitHub
• Minimum 3 years experience with modern security protocols such as OAuth, JSON Web Tokens, Kerberos, TLS/SSL
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated experience SQL and SSMS
• Minimum 3 years experience in integrating on hybrid cloud solutions

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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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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