Senior Associate Director – Tech@Lilly LRL
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Senior Associate Director – Tech@Lilly LRL is a pivotal leadership role in Lilly Bangalore, responsible for overseeing people, processes, portfolios, and technology delivery at Lilly Bangalore. This role requires a strong blend of strategic vision, technical acumen, and leadership skills to manage end-to-end capabilities, scale services, and execute strategic initiatives. The leader will foster innovation and operational excellence across key domains, including Research R&D, and Engineering, while ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned with organizational priorities.Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Leadership
- Define and deliver a multi-year strategy and capability roadmap aligned with global LRL and Lilly Bangalore priorities.
- Unlock the potential of AI across Research domains to enhance decision-making and innovation.
- Lead highly strategic portfolios such as Mergers & Acquisitions, enabling seamless integration of acquired organizations into Lilly’s technology and research ecosystem.
- Collaborate with global and local teams to influence and shape the broader IT agenda, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Provide thought leadership and create a culture of innovation, exploring advancements in radical, incremental, and architectural technologies.
- Oversee governance, ensuring consistency in processes, compliance, and shared consciousness across service areas.
- Drive portfolio delivery excellence with an “Outcome over Ownership” approach, balancing short-term achievements with long-term scalability.
- Implement best practices for delivery, strategy, and engineering KPIs to ensure success in investment programs.
- Build, manage, and mentor high-performing product and engineering teams across LCCI, ensuring seamless operations and delivery.
- Attract and retain top talent, focusing on leadership development and succession planning.
- Foster a collaborative environment that promotes high integrity, performance, and shared learning across global and local teams.
- Oversee the design and implementation of modern technologies, including Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps, MLOps, SaaS, and microservices architectures.
- Guide advanced technology areas, including AI and Quantum Computing, ensuring alignment with Lilly’s research and business strategies.
- Ensure systems are designed and deployed with scalability, security, and efficiency in mind.
- Collaborate with architects, technologists, and service leaders to drive engineering excellence and innovation.
- Champion tech-enabled transformation, driving impactful solutions across LRL Tech@Lilly and beyond.
- Establish strong partnerships with global business units and other stakeholders to drive a united vision and cohesive strategy.
- Influence strategic decision-making through effective challenge and constructive debate, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.
- Ensure delivery of enterprise-class IT services leveraging Agile, DevOps, ITIL, and ITSM frameworks.
- Act as a role model in driving process excellence, governance, and adherence to quality and compliance standards.
- Optimize resource allocation and manage risks to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes across portfolios.
- The candidate must demonstrate exceptional influencing skills to effectively engage and align a diverse set of stakeholders across the Org.
- This includes the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and compelling manner, build trust, and drive consensus across cross-functional teams.
- Influence senior leaders by articulating the strategic value of technology investments, aligning digital initiatives with business priorities, and demonstrating measurable outcomes and ROI.
- Leadership Acumen: Proven track record of managing large, diverse teams, driving strategic initiatives, and delivering impactful outcomes in a complex, global environment.
- Technical Expertise: Strong technical knowledge across IT domains, including cloud platforms, software development, DevSecOps, and ITSM practices.
- Pharma Domain Knowledge: Experience in regulated industries like Pharma and Life Sciences, with a solid understanding of compliance standards and processes.
- Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional ability to build professional networks, foster collaboration, and manage geographically dispersed teams.
- Delivery Focus: Expertise in Agile, DevOps, and engineering frameworks to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient IT solutions.
- Advanced certifications: Any technical equivalent, or PMP, SAFe Agilist, CSM, ITIL, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with Pharma R&D processes and AI/ML applications in research domains.
- Experience in defining and executing IT strategies, delivering enterprise IT services, and managing complex technology portfolios.
This role serves as a catalyst for strategic and operational transformation within LRL Tech@Lilly. It demands a leader who can inspire teams, innovate at scale, and deliver transformative outcomes while maintaining the highest standards of collaboration, quality, and complianceLilly 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 ( ) 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 does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.#WeAreLilly