Lilly Hyderabad - Senior Technology Leader

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.

Job level

P5, Senior Director

Position Title

Enterprise Technology, Capability, Transformation, and Innovation Lead

Job Functions

Tech@Lilly India

Supervisor

Vice President Tech@Lilly India

Background

Lilly’s Purpose

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 35,000 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 it 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.

Come bring to life technologies to lead in Pharma-tech!

India Tech Team is actively looking for a motivated and experienced Enterprise Technologist, Transformation and Innovation lead who likes to strategize and design enterprise tech solutions, platforms for business scale, speed, value and innovation – contributing to the respective tech core or business function and to the broader Enterprise Tech@Lilly organization. Are you a change agent who can shape strategy and decisions, influence leaders and organizations without authority? Are you passionate about being at the heart of technical innovation? Do you have passion to drive business outcomes leveraging cutting edge technology in an unprecedented manner? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset to operate as a start-up and deliver with speed? If so, please apply to jointly shape the future of our industry, powering our growth and redefining what is possible through Tech in pharma to enable Lilly purpose of creating more medicines to make life better!

What you will be doing:

Reporting to the Vice President India Tech@Lilly Leader, you will lead, establish enterprise technologies and transformation capabilities by researching industry innovations and trends in technology, pharma and healthcare, uncovering business use cases, and driving solutions to accelerate business outcomes for the enterprise. There are four primary components to the role for the assigned function and or enterprise capabilities: initiating, shaping and influencing technology vision and leadership of key transformational initiatives, robust technical oversight and accountability of the assigned functional portfolio and or capabilities, owning relationships and cross functional collaborations to internally influence, align, and drive business outcomes to tangibly support our company growth strategy, and external research of use-cases and industry leading technology. Owning end to end from conceptualization, business case development, driving POCs, building world class teams, executing with excellence, scaling with speed and delivering value with highest quality and user experience.

The Tech@Lilly India Technology, Capability, Transformation and Innovation Lead is a strategic and influential position and is responsible for shaping, driving, and executing the technical strategy and direction for respective tech function and enterprise capabilities. Partnering with Tech@Lilly leadership, business and enterprise architect leadership, the leader will drive forward the technology direction to enable the modernization and enable the 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 enabling new business opportunities led by technology.

Working alongside Enterprise Capability, Global Tech@Lilly Architecture, and business functional leaders in India and enterprise tech teams, the Technology, Capability, Transformation and Innovation Lead will develop, own and lead the execution of roadmaps, influence the strategic direction and oversee architecture and technology decisions for assigned function and or capabilities enabling functional and central capability development and transformation programs for, advanced analytics, AI transformation, machine learning, productivity and automation.

You will informally lead a small team and work alongside others with technical and information security expertise to deliver these outcomes.

Position Description

How you will succeed:

• Run the “Office of Technology” for the assigned function and or enterprise capability, ensuring the team is working together to build and execute technologies of the future.
• Establish and facilitate the planning activities associated with technology that include strategic architecture (2-5 year) roadmap development and management (for AI, Automation, Data & Analytics, Application, and Technology), long-range plan inputs, function and capability specific reference architecture definition and management, and application / technology optimization.
• Facilitate, participate, and enhance both functional and central level technology governance that includes project architecture consultation/technical leadership (particularly those that are highly complex, have a high degree of risk, or have multiple affiliate or global dependencies), project triage and as appropriate technology reviews at a project/solution level from inception through execution, overall portfolio governance (including a functional portfolio view of dependencies, risks, and constraints), and functional level reference architecture governance (principles, reference models, standards, decision frameworks, patterns, implementation guides, etc.).
• Lead innovation activities across the function and enterprise capability. This includes but not limited to innovation, research, Proof-of-Value (POV)
• Make complex technical decisions in partnership with global Tech@Lilly and Enterprise Business Architecture and capability team balancing business priorities and needs, enterprise business architecture principals and respective regulations.
• Implement a technology architecture roadmap and future strategy (Modernization of functional architecture – Platform, Information, and Application).
• Lead large scale/highly technically complex / transformational programs across the function (Omni-Channel engagement, AI transformation Technology Modernization, Advanced Analytics, new enterprise capabilities etc.)
• Actively promote good technology, architectural principles and practices, looking for opportunities to go global where possible and maximize re-use.
• Serve as the liaison to Global and enterprise Tech@Lilly capabilities, representing function from both Business and IT perspectives, ensuring appropriate consideration of the functional priorities are factored into the global architecture.  This includes participating on the Global and India Tech@Lilly Technology and Architecture Forum
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, including threats and exploits, and communicate relevant risks to business and security leaders.
• Ensure Enterprise Business and Functional Technology Architecture principles and practices remain appropriate to evolving Lilly business / Tech@Lilly strategies and when differences arise, proactively influence changes as necessary.  Where gaps exist, proactively seek to provide guidance and a solution.
• Establish a strong network of influence with Enterprise Business Architecture, Technology and Capability community and global Tech@Lilly architecture community, and with Information Security community.
• Establish good vendor relationships with key local and global strategic and innovative vendors in technology.
• Provide advice on technical aspects of product / system design, development, engineering and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensure that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices are applied correctly.
• Ensure that business requirements are well mapped /incorporated into product / system design and the appropriate technology, skill and tool are chosen and aligned.
• Proactively identify and determine cases of Proof of Concept/Proof of Value and set the direction and approach to achieve.
• Influence the key capability leaders throughout the business and Tech@Lilly in the technical direction and customer experience strategies developed and stewarded through Tech@Lilly organizations and global architecture.
• Maintain an Technology, Capability and Architecture status scorecard (Governance, POC/POV, Modernization, and Alignment with principals), measure, and improve/upgrade the current technical/operational status. Share with stakeholders.
• Communicate the technology strategy with local and global leadership and ensure sponsorship and support for the direction.
• Informal supervisory responsibility to coach and guide a small team of technologists.
• Serves as a coach/mentor to those pursuing a technical career path.
• Capture and share best practices across all business units and geographies.
• Serve as the primary point of technology, capability and architectural communication for functional technical resources.

Min Qualifications / Skills

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Information Technology or related field 15+ years’ work experience, including Information Technology experience in multiple technical areas and roles Deep technical expertise across different business areas and technologies – infrastructure, application domain and engineering Experience in multiple business functions and capabilities in an organization Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the proven ability to develop appropriate audience communications across both business and technical domains. Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous situations. Proven track record of delivering complex programs with speed and value. Proven track record on delivering a technical/architectural roadmap and implementation. Validated skills of strong learning agility and relationship building to inspire change using leading tech and pharma knowledge and relationships. Ability to influence change at all levels up to and including AVP (M4), IO (M5) and CIO level. Customers focused, obsessed and accustomed to ensuring services are designed to meet external customer needs. Experiences working across Tech@Lilly ensuring alignment and buy-in. Experience in developing technology direction and gaining alignment with various technology teams depending on functional scope. Experience with portfolio management and formal project management methodologies, agile frameworks (including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and solid understanding of associated practices and tools. A high level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, strong learning agility and innovation interest. Operating with a product first mindset.

Additional Skills/Preferences

Deep understanding of privacy regulations about Information technology and security.

Position requires up to 10% Travel.

Position located in Hyderabad, India working in a hybrid model.

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