Technical Lead Architect

Preferred Skills

• Experience in pharma, life sciences, or other regulated, validated environments (GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, CSV), including validation and audit-readiness practices.
• Familiarity with CDISC standards, clinical trial data flows and regulatory submission processes, including eCTD and analysis data reviewer’s guides.
• Familiarity with statistical methods commonly used in clinical trials (for example, survival analysis and mixed models for repeated measures).
• Experience with open-source R ecosystems for pharma (for example, tidyverse and pharmaverse) and with Shiny for interactive review of outputs.
• Experience with agent design patterns (for example, ReAct, plan-and-execute), agent observability and evaluation frameworks.
• Exposure to Databricks or similar data platforms, NoSQL databases and platform engineering.
• Experience with SAFe or product-oriented delivery models, including PI planning.
• Why Join Us?
• This role offers an opportunity to shape how clinical trial statistics is delivered at Lilly. You will work at the intersection of statistics, AI and software engineering in an autonomous team that moves fast, owns the full software lifecycle and partners directly with biostatistics, statistical programming and product leaders. You will set technical direction, build reference implementations that other teams adopt and grow the engineers around you, with visibility to senior leadership and a direct line from your work to faster, validated delivery of trial results. If you want to apply agentic AI where it matters most, in regulated, high-stakes science, this is that role.
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