Platform Architect
Eli Lilly and Company
6 months ago
Remote friendly (Indianapolis, IN)
United States
IT
How You Will Succeed
- Provide architecture leadership for a cloud-based SaaS platform, aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and enterprise technology standards
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate business and regulatory requirements into platform enhancements
- Collaborate with external SaaS suppliers to guide platform evolution, solution design, and strategic roadmap alignment
- Drive evaluation and adoption of AI-enabled and data-driven capabilities within the SaaS platform
- Define and govern application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure architecture
- Ensure solutions meet scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and compliance requirements
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
- Design and oversee cloud-native integrations with upstream and downstream enterprise systems
- Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and design governance forums
- Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle
- Promote continuous improvement via modernization, cloud optimization, and technical debt reduction
- Architect and implement AI-powered automation for document ingestion and analysis (e.g., contract PDFs and formulary tables)
- Integrate AI-driven workflows to accelerate interpretation of formulary and contract data for advanced analytics and actionable payer access insights
Your Required Qualifications
- 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
- Experience architecting SaaS and cloud-based solutions, preferably on AWS
- Cloud-native architecture patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures)
- Experience working with external technology suppliers/vendors
- Authorization to work in the United States full-time; Lilly will not sponsor visas
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in regulated/compliance-driven environments
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare/life sciences/financial/government pricing (revenue management)
- Familiarity with chargeback, government pricing, Medicare, rebates, or payment platforms
- Experience influencing vendor SaaS product roadmaps
- Exposure to AI/ML, analytics, or intelligent automation in SaaS
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud cost optimization
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional)
- Power BI experience, including designing/managing data pipelines for analytics and reporting
Benefits (as stated)
- Company bonus (for eligible full-time employees)
- Eligibility for 401(k), pension, vacation; medical/dental/vision/prescription; flexible benefits; life insurance; time off/leave; well-being benefits (EAP, fitness, clubs/activities)
Travel
- <10%
- Provide architecture leadership for a cloud-based SaaS platform, aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and enterprise technology standards
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to translate business and regulatory requirements into platform enhancements
- Collaborate with external SaaS suppliers to guide platform evolution, solution design, and strategic roadmap alignment
- Drive evaluation and adoption of AI-enabled and data-driven capabilities within the SaaS platform
- Define and govern application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure architecture
- Ensure solutions meet scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and compliance requirements
- Establish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices
- Design and oversee cloud-native integrations with upstream and downstream enterprise systems
- Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and design governance forums
- Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle
- Promote continuous improvement via modernization, cloud optimization, and technical debt reduction
- Architect and implement AI-powered automation for document ingestion and analysis (e.g., contract PDFs and formulary tables)
- Integrate AI-driven workflows to accelerate interpretation of formulary and contract data for advanced analytics and actionable payer access insights
Your Required Qualifications
- 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
- Experience architecting SaaS and cloud-based solutions, preferably on AWS
- Cloud-native architecture patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures)
- Experience working with external technology suppliers/vendors
- Authorization to work in the United States full-time; Lilly will not sponsor visas
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in regulated/compliance-driven environments
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in pharmaceutical/healthcare/life sciences/financial/government pricing (revenue management)
- Familiarity with chargeback, government pricing, Medicare, rebates, or payment platforms
- Experience influencing vendor SaaS product roadmaps
- Exposure to AI/ML, analytics, or intelligent automation in SaaS
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud cost optimization
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional)
- Power BI experience, including designing/managing data pipelines for analytics and reporting
Benefits (as stated)
- Company bonus (for eligible full-time employees)
- Eligibility for 401(k), pension, vacation; medical/dental/vision/prescription; flexible benefits; life insurance; time off/leave; well-being benefits (EAP, fitness, clubs/activities)
Travel
- <10%