Software Product Engineering - Development Lead - Silicon Valley Hub
Eli Lilly and Company
Summary
Lilly's Software Product Engineering team is committed to exploring how the next generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly – improve patient outcomes.
Job description
The SPE Development Lead will be responsible for developing and leading technical solutions supporting one or more Digital Health platforms. You will need to engage multiple teams to define technical requirements, develop designs, and align technology that enables the platform architecture all while meeting medical device regulatory expectations. Additionally, the organization will look to you to be a leader across SPE projects influencing other tech leads in how we develop platform solutions following best practices and driving our platform innovation roadmap.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop and drive adoption of platform development standards and architecture patterns across your team(s)
- Enable technical delivery of SPE software components including understanding and addressing risk, privacy, cybersecurity and legal constraints on project delivery
- Drive design of new feature requests that are highly scalable and resilient
- Align SPE technical solutions with Lilly supported technologies
- Provide technical evaluation of proposed project ideas, software changes and future product releases
- Drive the development and execution of our platform innovation roadmap, including creating working proof of concept models in new technology spaces directly connected to future Software Product Engineering capabilities
- Mentor more junior members of the development team
- Build effective relationships with key technical resources and architects to influence technology solutions specifically related to Software Product Engineering systems
- Provide guidance to Lilly and non-Lilly software delivery teams in best practice Agile delivery of software components of Lilly's platform
- Obtain and use knowledge of medical device delivery models and quality system to ensure solutions align with regulatory expectations and meet regulatory timelines
- Obtain and bring to bear knowledge of Lilly business processes and technology to ensure solution deliveries are consistent with the strategy and roadmap
Your Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
- 7+ years of experience delivering software solutions that span the development lifecycle, e.g., design, development, testing, deployment, and support
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of software projects
What You Should Bring
- Ability to manage and keep control of multiple software development and integration efforts
- Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture
- Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers
- Proven initiative to learn new technologies and seek opportunities utilize what you've learned
- Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and associated implementations
- Experience with architected asynchronous systems, utilizing tools like Kafka or similar
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and other cloud service providers
- Experience with identity management or authentication providers (preferably Okta)
- Experience with GitHub
- Experience with CI/CD capabilities and industry best practices
- Experience utilizing Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) or similar toolsets
- High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest
Role is located in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model - relocation required
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field
- 7+ years of experience delivering software solutions that span the development lifecycle, e.g., design, development, testing, deployment, and support
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of software projects
- Ability to manage and keep control of multiple software development and integration efforts
- Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture
- Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers
- Proven initiative to learn new technologies and seek opportunities utilize what you've learned
- Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and associated implementations
- Experience with architected asynchronous systems, utilizing tools like Kafka or similar
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and other cloud service providers
- Experience with identity management or authentication providers (preferably Okta)
- Experience with GitHub
- Experience with CI/CD capabilities and industry best practices
- Experience utilizing Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) or similar toolsets
- High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Vacation benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Prescription drug benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance
- Death benefits
- Employee assistance program
- Fitness benefits
- Employee clubs and activities
- Company bonus
Company overview
Eli Lilly and Company, commonly known as Lilly, is a leading American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly, the company has grown into one of the world's most valuable pharmaceutical enterprises, with operations in approximately 125 countries. Lilly specializes in developing and manufacturing innovative medicines across multiple therapeutic areas, including diabetes, oncology, neuroscience, immunology, and cardiometabolic diseases. The company is renowned for its groundbreaking work in insulin production, having been the first to mass-produce insulin and later developing the first commercially available insulin product in the U.S. Lilly's current portfolio includes blockbuster medications such as Mounjaro and Zepbound (tirzepatide) for diabetes and obesity, Trulicity (dulaglutide) for type 2 diabetes, Verzenio (abemaciclib) for breast cancer, and Taltz (ixekizumab) for autoimmune conditions. With approximately 47,000 employees worldwide, Lilly maintains a strong commitment to research and development, investing heavily in scientific innovation to address some of the world's most significant health challenges. The company operates with a mission to make life better for people around the world through the discovery and delivery of innovative medicines.