Advisor & Software Engineer

**Job Description:** **Role Overview:** At Lilly, you will be joining the Technology Organisation, a team dedicated to leveraging pioneering technologies to create new possibilities in advancing healthcare. As an Advisor Software Engineer (R5) in the Software Product Engineering (SPE) team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the engineering direction and building cutting-edge solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Your expertise in system design, distributed architecture, AI-driven development, and leadership will be essential in driving innovation and excellence across multiple functions. **Key Responsibilities:** - **System Design & Architecture:** - Own end-to-end system design of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms, ensuring resilience, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. - Define and enforce architectural standards and patterns, leading architecture reviews and technical blueprints. - Drive decomposition of monolithic and COTS systems into modern, maintainable, in-house services. - **Hands-On Full-Stack Engineering:** - Write production-quality code across the stack using modern languages and frameworks on both frontend and backend. - Build APIs, real-time communication layers, and data pipelines with appropriate database technologies. - Champion code quality through reviews, test-driven development, and CI/CD automation. - **AI-Driven & Agentic Engineering:** - Architect and build agentic AI systems that execute multi-step workflows autonomously. - Design AI-native architectures for intelligent products and demonstrate mastery of responsible AI practices. - Evaluate emerging AI technologies and drive adoption where they create measurable value. - **Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence:** - Act as the technical conscience across multiple teams, challenging the status quo and coaching engineers. - Represent SPE in architecture guilds and technology leadership forums. **Qualifications Required:** - **System Design & Architecture:** - Proven track record designing large-scale distributed systems in production. - Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform (preferably AWS) with infrastructure-as-code and containerization. - Strong knowledge of domain-driven design, API gateway patterns, and system decomposition strategies. - **Software Engineering:** - Proficiency in modern programming languages across the full stack. - Experience building frontend applications with modern frameworks and backend development with appropriate technologies. - Strong testing discipline and CI/CD experience. - **AI & Agentic Systems:** - Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications and familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks. - Understanding of foundation model capabilities, evaluation, and responsible AI principles. - **Leadership & Influence:** - Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority. - Strong communication skills for architecture documents and coaching engineers. *Please note that Lilly is dedicated to promoting equal opportunities in the workforce and does not discriminate based on various factors.* **[Note: Additional details of the company were omitted for brevity]** **Job Description:** **Role Overview:** At Lilly, you will be joining the Technology Organisation, a team dedicated to leveraging pioneering technologies to create new possibilities in advancing healthcare. As an Advisor Software Engineer (R5) in the Software Product Engineering (SPE) team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the engineering direction and building cutting-edge solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Your expertise in system design, distributed architecture, AI-driven development, and leadership will be essential in driving innovation and excellence across multiple functions. **Key Responsibilities:** - **System Design & Architecture:** - Own end-to-end system design of large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms, ensuring resilience, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. - Define and enforce architectural standards and patterns, leading architecture reviews and technical blueprints. - Drive decomposition of monolithic and COTS systems into modern, maintainable, in-house services. - **Hands-On Full-Stack Engineering:** - Write production-quality code across the stack using modern languages and frameworks on both frontend and backend. - Build APIs, real-time communication layers, and data pipelines with appropriate database technologies. - Champion code quality through reviews, test-driven development, and CI/CD automation. - **AI-Driven & Agentic Engineering:** - Architect and build agentic AI systems that execute multi-step workflows autonomously. - Design AI-native architectures for intelligent products and demonstrate mastery of responsible AI practices. - Evaluate emerging AI technologies and drive adoption where they create measurable val