Sr. AI Data Architect - Eli Lilly and Company : Job Details

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.

In the commercial organization, Tech at Lilly plays a critical role in accelerating and delivering transformative capabilities to bring medicines to Lilly's patients. We are looking for an IT architect with AI, Data, and Technology experience to inform, ideate, and deliver transformative technology solutions to solve pressing and exciting challenges in Lilly USA.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of data, AI and technology projects, ensuring best practices and company standards are followed

• Externally evaluate and propose new technologies to transform internal initiatives and generate new, innovative ideas

• Influence and partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to get new technologies and approaches approved for use

• Define and leverage team to execute AI strategy for the organization

• Plan and design robust, scalable, and high-performance data architectures and solutions using AWS cloud services

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions (AI, data, system, automation, etc.)

• Optimize data processing workflows, data storage, and data retrieval processes for efficiency and performance

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the data engineering and data science

• Stay up to date with the latest industry technology trends, inclusive of AI, AWS services and features, and evaluate their potential impact on current and future projects

• Ensure data security, governance, and compliance across all AI, data, and technology solutions

• Document architectural designs, implementation plans, and operational procedures

• Partner with and influence vendor resources on solution development to ensure understanding of data and technical direction for solutions

• Ensure successful transition of applications to service management team through planning and knowledge transfer

• Technically assess new use cases and determine best way to deliver them by evaluating internal and external solutions

Your Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information or related technical or scientific field

• At least 5+ years of Information Technology experience in the following areas:

  • AI application, leadership and implementation

  • AWS environment (S3, EC2 Athena, Redshift), its methodologies and processes

What You Should Bring:

• Ability to work on a hybrid schedule in Indianapolis, IN (2 days remote)

• Positive, customer-focused attitude

• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technology areas (Strong learning agility)

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority

• A high level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest

• US Market Healthcare environment knowledge

• Project Management experience

• Architect experience

• Additional Information:

• Travel: Less than 10%

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate's education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

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.

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