Associate Director - Technical Data Product Owner
Eli Lilly and Company
August 21, 2026
Remote friendly (Indianapolis, IN)
United States
IT
Technical Data Product Owner — LillyDirect Pharmacy Covered Entity Data Hub
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the LillyDirect Pharmacy Covered Entity Data Hub.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate goals into product capabilities and technical requirements.
- Define quarterly/annual roadmaps aligned with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and enterprise data strategy.
- Prioritize initiatives, features, and technical debt using a value-driven approach.
- Maintain and prioritize the Jira product backlog; create/refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning/reviews, and release planning; ensure delivery meets business requirements, quality standards, and timelines.
- Coordinate onboarding of pharmacy, telehealth, dispensing, prescribing, and covered entity data sources.
- Support data ingestion, transformation, quality, and observability; facilitate technical design discussions and guide engineering prioritization.
- Serve as main liaison across business, data engineering, enterprise data platforms, Legal/Privacy/Security, third-party data partners, and analytics/reporting; run requirement workshops and communicate risks/dependencies/status.
- Ensure HIPAA/privacy/security/regulatory alignment; support DTAs, data-sharing reviews, and governance; drive data quality, auditability, and governance controls.
- Define/monitor success metrics; establish data quality standards; prioritize production pipeline issues; support incident management and operational readiness; champion observability/monitoring/reliability.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Analytics/Healthcare Informatics or related.
- 5+ years as Product Owner/Technical Product Manager/Data Product Manager/Business Systems Analyst.
- 3+ years with enterprise data platforms, data integration/analytics, or cloud data ecosystems.
- Agile delivery experience managing teams with Jira and Scrum.
- Experience defining roadmaps and leading cross-functional delivery.
- Experience in regulated healthcare or pharmaceutical environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with pharmacy/dispensing/prescribing/patient services/telehealth or healthcare data products.
- Knowledge of HIPAA and healthcare data governance.
- Data engineering concepts (ETL/ELT, pipelines, data quality management, integration architectures, API/file integrations).
- Experience with Databricks, AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, Azure Data Platform, or similar.
- Communication/facilitation/stakeholder management.
- Healthcare interoperability knowledge; third-party onboarding; tokenized/master data/patient identity resolution.
- Enterprise data governance and data observability platforms.
- SAFe/Scrum/Agile certifications.
Location & Work Flexibility
- Indianapolis, IN (Lilly Corporate Center); hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote).
Benefits (as listed)
- Company bonus eligibility; 401(k), pension, vacation; medical/dental/vision/prescription; flexible benefits; life insurance; time off/leave; well-being (EAP, fitness, clubs).
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the LillyDirect Pharmacy Covered Entity Data Hub.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate goals into product capabilities and technical requirements.
- Define quarterly/annual roadmaps aligned with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and enterprise data strategy.
- Prioritize initiatives, features, and technical debt using a value-driven approach.
- Maintain and prioritize the Jira product backlog; create/refine epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning/reviews, and release planning; ensure delivery meets business requirements, quality standards, and timelines.
- Coordinate onboarding of pharmacy, telehealth, dispensing, prescribing, and covered entity data sources.
- Support data ingestion, transformation, quality, and observability; facilitate technical design discussions and guide engineering prioritization.
- Serve as main liaison across business, data engineering, enterprise data platforms, Legal/Privacy/Security, third-party data partners, and analytics/reporting; run requirement workshops and communicate risks/dependencies/status.
- Ensure HIPAA/privacy/security/regulatory alignment; support DTAs, data-sharing reviews, and governance; drive data quality, auditability, and governance controls.
- Define/monitor success metrics; establish data quality standards; prioritize production pipeline issues; support incident management and operational readiness; champion observability/monitoring/reliability.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Data Analytics/Healthcare Informatics or related.
- 5+ years as Product Owner/Technical Product Manager/Data Product Manager/Business Systems Analyst.
- 3+ years with enterprise data platforms, data integration/analytics, or cloud data ecosystems.
- Agile delivery experience managing teams with Jira and Scrum.
- Experience defining roadmaps and leading cross-functional delivery.
- Experience in regulated healthcare or pharmaceutical environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with pharmacy/dispensing/prescribing/patient services/telehealth or healthcare data products.
- Knowledge of HIPAA and healthcare data governance.
- Data engineering concepts (ETL/ELT, pipelines, data quality management, integration architectures, API/file integrations).
- Experience with Databricks, AWS, Redshift, Snowflake, Azure Data Platform, or similar.
- Communication/facilitation/stakeholder management.
- Healthcare interoperability knowledge; third-party onboarding; tokenized/master data/patient identity resolution.
- Enterprise data governance and data observability platforms.
- SAFe/Scrum/Agile certifications.
Location & Work Flexibility
- Indianapolis, IN (Lilly Corporate Center); hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote).
Benefits (as listed)
- Company bonus eligibility; 401(k), pension, vacation; medical/dental/vision/prescription; flexible benefits; life insurance; time off/leave; well-being (EAP, fitness, clubs).