Job Summary:
Eli Lilly and Company is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, dedicated to making life better for people around the world. They are seeking a Data & Platform Architect to shape the strategic direction of their contract management and rebate platform, focusing on AI innovation and automation to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
• Define and lead the strategic data & architectural vision & direction for Lilly's contract management and rebate platform, ensuring alignment with LVA business objectives and enterprise technology standards.
• Serve as Lilly’s primary technical voice with IntegriChain, actively influencing the vendor’s product roadmap and pushing for capabilities that advance Lilly’s operational and AI/automation goals.
• Partner with LVA business collaborators, T@L product managers, and product owners to turn complex contract and payment challenges into clear technical requirements, platform enhancements, and long-term roadmap priorities.
• Lead architecture reviews, risk assessments, and governance forums for the platform, ensuring solutions are SOX-audit-compliant, scalable, resilient, and secure.
• Partner with key business collaborators to identify and prioritize AI and automation opportunities across LVA processes, from contracts and formulary analysis to rebate reconciliation.
• Architect and be responsible for the implementation of AI-powered solutions and integrations with the ICyte platform, SAP, and other Lilly systems.
• Integrate Lilly agentic AI workflows with IntegriChain workflows that accelerate interpretation of complex contract and government pricing data, reducing manual effort and supporting Lilly's growing sales volume.
• Champion adoption of AI-driven features across adjacent LVA systems; influence vendor development investments toward intelligent automation priorities.
• Define and govern application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure architecture across the LVA platform ecosystem, including cloud-native integrations with upstream and downstream enterprise systems.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices; drive continuous improvement through modernization, cloud optimization, and technical debt reduction.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the product lifecycle; anticipate and resolve complex technical, operational, or business problems that impact LVA's contract management capability.
• Translate business needs and automation opportunities into a coherent technical roadmap that can be communicated clearly to engineering teams, data engineers, policy experts, and senior leadership.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution design, or technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience architecting SaaS and/or cloud-based solutions, preferably on AWS
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, MCP, and agentic workflows
• Proven ability to influence external technology vendors or SaaS providers, including shaping product roadmaps without direct authority.
Preferred:
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or government pricing systems particularly in revenue management, contract management, or rebate processing
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI, AI/ML, solution design, or automation within enterprise SaaS environments.
• Experience designing and leading data pipelines for analytics and reporting; Power BI experience is a plus
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional preferred)
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (SOX, HIPAA, or similar) is a plus; Lilly will provide domain onboarding for the right candidate
• Shown ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical collaborators, including senior IT and business leaders.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to navigate multi-functional, matrixed organizations
Company:
We're a medicine company turning science into healing to make life better for people around the world. Founded in 1876, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.