Sr. Principal Architect - MES/Digital Execution System

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: June 24, 2025

Job Description:

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. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! Lilly recently announced a $4.5 billion investment to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development. The first-ever facility of its kind, combining research and manufacturing in a single location, the Medicine Foundry will allow Lilly to further develop innovative solutions to optimize manufacturing processes and increase capacity for clinical trial medicines, while also reducing costs and environmental impact. Lilly is entering an exciting period of growth, and we are committed to delivering innovative medicines to patients around the world. Lilly research tech has a growing need for in-house manufacturing of material for clinical supplies and will therefore construct a new campus to manufacture Clinical Trial (CT) Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API). This new facility will meet the needs for a rapidly growing portfolio (more and new areas), to accelerate development timelines, and to improve supply chain strength. The brand-new facility, also known as Lilly Medicine Foundry (LMF) will utilize the latest technology to augment the current clinical supply chain for small molecules (SM), oligonucleotides, peptides, and Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs), monoclonal antibodies and bioconjugates, and add new capabilities including mRNA. This new site will be built using the latest high-tech equipment, sophisticated highly coordinated and automated manufacturing systems, and have a focus on minimizing the impact to our environment. What You’ll Be Doing: As the Senior Technical Architect for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), your main responsibility will be to craft and develop robust IT architecture solutions tailored to sophisticated business challenges within the pharmaceutical manufacturing domain. This role demands a deep technical expertise in creating integrated process, application, data, and technology architectures, ensuring conformity with enterprise standards and strategic goals. At the Lilly Medicine Foundry (LMF), you will lead the implementation of complex MES, driving the transition to paperless execution from the facility's inception. Your role will involve deploying innovative technologies, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems, and collaborating multi-functionally to uphold the Manufacturing Strategy for Operational Excellence. You will be instrumental in delivering IT solutions that meet exacting quality standards and facilitate the site’s mission and vision. How You Will Succeed: Bring your deep technical knowledge and experience to design and develop product architecture for MES and Digital Execution solutions. Must ensure the compatibility, integration, interoperability, stability, scalability and usability of products/services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies. Must serve as a technical expert on solutions design, development, and implementation requirements to address business needs. Must consider security, privacy and data integrity risks and design IT systems that are secure and protect company data and ensure compliance. Possess the capability to communicate sophisticated technical information to both technical and non-technical partners and influence decision making at senior leadership level. Develop an in-depth understanding of the business processes at LMF. Apply knowledge to assigned solutions to support the operational workflow. Work with Process Engineers, Operations, Quality, and Scientists to resolve any issues reported on the solutions implemented. Drive the site adoption of assigned solutions, ensuring consistency with Site and IT strategy, and using awareness of internal and external trends in collaboration with the Business SMEs. Collaborate with developers and subject authorities (global and local) to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs. Review and approve documentation related to areas of responsibility (Validation Lifecycle documents, SOPs, policies, implemented IQPQ protocols, etc.) as appropriate. What You Should Bring Experience with designing and developing IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) and solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. Experience leading or supporting the Computer System Validation of IT platforms including Data Integrity compliance. Experience with identifying system requirements, such as performance, scalability, security, compatibility, interoperability, stability, usability, data integrity and ensure that these requirements are met within the overall system architecture. Experience with providing technical guidance to other members of the organization, including developers, project managers, and technical support staff. Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure that the organization's systems remain innovative and effective. Superb communication and people skills to build relationships with team members and articulate sophisticated technical concepts. Adaptability and flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and lead multiple tasks simultaneously. Extensive background with MES and how to integrate with Automation, Lab and other Local/Global IT platforms. Consistent track record in tools / platforms such as MES Syncade, PharmaSuite, Pas-X, Tulip or similar and Integration technologies enabling data flow with downstream and upstream systems (e.g. SAP, LIMS, DeltaV, MQTT, UNS, Aveva PI, Data Lakes, Process Monitoring systems such as JMP, Tableau, Power BI or similar) Demonstrable experience in platform practices and procedures such as infrastructure qualification, patching, monitoring, log analysis, edge computing, site reliability engineering, or disaster recovery. Demonstrable experience in languages, tools and concepts such as Python, JSON, YAML, SQL, or Git, Github, C#, SQL, XML, REST, OPCUA, Data Modeling, Web Development, Cloud first architecture Develop or update project plans including the determination of project activities and achievements. Provided oversight of multiple project and communications status. Your Basic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Execution Systems (e.g. Data solutions, MES technologies such as Rockwell Automation Pharma Suite, Emerson Syncade, Siemens Camstar, or Werum PAS-X). Minimum of 3years of experience on API manufacturing facilities. Additional Information: This position will be on site 4 days a week Potential to work after hours Initial location at Lilly Technology Center, Indianapolis Permanent location at the new Lilly Medicines Foundry in Lebanon, Indiana ? Organization Overview: Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using groundbreaking technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. Research Tech unites science with technology to accelerate the Research and Development of medicines and to deliver therapeutic innovations. The team leverages technology and platforms to streamline scientific experimentation to help Researchers follow the science, to understand the disease and identify potential therapies. They are at the forefront of advanced analytics to enable data driven drug discovery, to innovate so Scientists can rapidly analyze and accelerate the discovery of new medicines. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $123,000 - $198,000 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. WeAreLilly

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