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 involves coordinating across various teams and ensuring projects are delivered on time and with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives supporting 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.
• Evaluate architecture decisions, pressure-test engineering estimates, understand cloud infrastructure trade-offs, and ensure technical soundness, scalability, and maintainability.
• Lead cross-functional delivery across business, technology, and vendor teams, serving as the central coordination point for aligned workstreams, risks, dependencies, and technical decisions.
• Establish and facilitate governance forums, prepare executive-level status reports, and drive structured decision-making processes.
• Drive vendor and consulting partner delivery, overseeing achievements for external partners while 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

One or more years working in technical delivery, software engineering, or platform engineering roles; experience handling complex, multi-workstream technology programs with cross-functional collaborators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• Experience running complex technology delivery programs from initiation through production deployment, with the technical depth to understand system architecture, data flows, API design, and infrastructure decisions, not just timelines and budgets.
• 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.

Skills

• Technical fluency in cloud platform technologies (AWS).
• Experience with AI/ML pipelines.
• Understanding of modern software delivery practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps).

Benefits

Full-time equivalent employees are eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $151,800.

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.