Associate Director - Technical Leader

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: February 1, 2026

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. What You’ll Be Doing: In collaboration with Lilly Research Labs, Tech at Lilly seeks to lead drug development in the cognitive age. We believe that advanced insights, personalized experiences, and technical innovation will deliver differentiated products, services, and experiences for patients, investigators, and regulators. Lilly’s portfolio and opportunity to transform lives has never been greater. This role serves as the Technical Lead for the Clinical Labs and Diagnostics portfolio, providing strategic and technical leadership across a complex, highly regulated laboratory ecosystem. The role is responsible for shaping technology strategy, overseeing solution design and delivery, and ensuring resilient, compliant, and scalable platforms that support clinical results and diagnostic data collection. As a technical leader, this role partners closely with business and other Tech at Lilly leaders to define future-state capabilities, drive portfolio execution, and develop high-performing technical solutions. The role formulates direction for Tech at Lilly strategies, plans, and architectures while influencing leadership across business and technology to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise goals, industry standards, and regulatory expectations. How You’ll Succeed: Lead Clinical Lab and Diagnostic technology strategy with a focus on portfolio delivery, automation, operational efficiency, and technical experience. Partner with business leaders, Product Owners, and Architects to define and evolve current- and future-state technology strategies. Own and execute a business-aligned technology roadmap, driving transformation across lab and diagnostics platforms. Serve as the primary technical authority, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, compliant, and scalable. Influence internal leaders and external vendors to deliver high-value solutions while reducing redundancy. Represent the Clinical Lab Tech at Lilly team in cross-functional forums, identifying opportunities for harmonization and progression. Provide technical oversight across agile delivery teams, ensuring quality, security, data integrity, and validation by design. Balance stakeholder needs and priorities to guide teams toward the highest-value outcomes. Partner across Tech at Lilly to manage risk, ensure platform support, and align solutions with the enterprise future state. Coach and develop technical and domain talent while continuously evolving platforms through feedback and data-driven insights. What You Should Bring: Demonstrated experience leading technical strategy and delivery across complex, regulated domains, preferably within Clinical Labs, Diagnostics, or R&D. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence without formal authority across organizational boundaries. Experience defining and executing short- and long-term technology roadmaps in a large enterprise environment. Strong background in modern software delivery practices, including agile, DevOps, and product-centric delivery models. Experience with vendor and service management, including strategic partnerships and solution delivery. Knowledge of AI/ML, automation, and emerging technologies applied to clinical research and laboratory operations. Experience with risk-based validation, quality, data integrity, security, resiliency, and regulatory compliance (e.g., CAP/CLIA). A proven track record of leadership, accountability, and successfully delivering large-scale technical or organizational transformations. Minimum Qualification Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information or related field Minimum of five years of technology experience, including strong full-stack development experience along with expertise in related processes, core technologies and user-experience best practices. Remote employees will not be considered for this position. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. 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 $124,500 - $182,600 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. WeAreLilly

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