Technology Delivery Manager

About the role

Lilly is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to lead technology initiatives supporting clinical statistics and regulatory submissions. The role requires hands-on technical expertise and operational rigor.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives that support regulatory submissions, statistical computing, and clinical development workflows.
• Operate at the center of a complex portfolio spanning AI/automation programs, cloud platform modernization, data pipeline architecture, and regulatory technology.
• Coordinate across business collaborators, product managers, internal engineering teams, external vendors and consulting partners, and horizontal platform organizations.
• Evaluate architecture decisions, pressure-test engineering estimates, understand cloud infrastructure trade-offs, and ensure technical soundness, scalability, and maintainability.
• Lead cross-functional delivery, serving as the central coordination point for aligned workstreams, risks, dependencies, and technical decisions.
• Drive governance and portfolio health, preparing and facilitating governance meetings, maintaining portfolio dashboards, tracking budget and capacity utilization, and ensuring leadership has visibility for informed decisions.
• Oversee vendor and consulting partner delivery, ensuring quality, cost discipline, and alignment with internal technology standards.
• Champion AI-assisted development practices, driving adoption of AI coding tools across engineering teams and vendor partners to accelerate delivery velocity, improve code quality, and increase developer productivity.
• Own service outcomes for the portfolio, ensuring delivered capabilities are managed with clear accountability for performance, stability, and operational health.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate service management processes and reduce manual operational effort, in partnership with delivery and service teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• One or more years working in technical delivery, software engineering, or platform engineering roles, with experience handling complex, multi-workstream technology programs.
• Technical fluency in evaluating architecture decisions, understanding cloud infrastructure trade-offs, and ensuring technical soundness, scalability, and maintainability.
• Experience running vendor and consulting partner delivery, including SOW management, milestone tracking, performance oversight, and technical review of deliverables and architecture decisions.
• Experience establishing and facilitating governance forums, preparing executive-level status reporting, and driving structured decision-making processes.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and highly organized with outstanding communication skills, able to translate technical complexity into clear business language for diverse audiences.
• Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience coordinating across business, technology, and vendor teams in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of cloud platform technologies (AWS), AI/ML pipelines, and modern software delivery practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps).
• Experience managing budgets and financial tracking for technology programs, including forecasting, variance analysis, and investment justification.
• Experience working across geographically distributed teams, particularly US and India-based delivery organizations.