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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Director- Software Engineering Manager - **Company:** The Lilly Company - **Location:** Indianapolis, IN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $159,000.0 - $233,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, DevOps, Distributed Data Store, Apache Hadoop, Information Sciences, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Node.Js, Scala (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Technical Debt, Vue.js, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Restful APIs, Legacy Systems, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** October 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2A7C37F530A940E98A9822D5BB22D3CF/job/ ## About the Role · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical engineering discipline, including Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Science, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Cloud Computing, Data Science · 8+ years working in software engineering roles · 5+years of experience as a software engineering manager · Experience of ownership of the technical strategy and delivery roadmap for one or more domains, sustained across multiple planning cycles · Experience with web and cloud technologies What You Should Bring: · Master's degree preferred · Experience leading multiple concurrent, complex engineering programs from inception to production, including modernizing or retiring legacy systems along the way. · Deep professional work experience in software engineering, building customer facing applications using Node.js, Vue.js, Python, Java, Scala, Go or Rust. · Depth across full-stack and platform engineering - RESTful APIs, microservice and event-driven architectures, distributed data management, observability, DevOps and CI/CD, and public cloud (AWS or Azure) - with the judgment to choose among these for a given problem and own the consequences of that choice over the life of the system. · A strong ability to architect and design robust, high-scale systems and to challenge engineers to think bigger and more generically in developing their solutions, and to make and document durable architectural decisions that other teams build on. · Demonstrated ability to scope, schedule and resource multiple complex programs in collaboration with cross functional partners and external delivery partners. · Demonstrated ability to translate business or portfolio strategy into an engineering roadmap, and to communicate that roadmap credibly to senior leadership. · Self-motivated, independent, and proactive, with outstanding communication skills. Can effectively communicate complex ideas and make compelling arguments, and influence outcomes without formal authority. · Excellent cross-functional influencer with experience working in a fast-paced environment with frequent context switching, including sustained engagement with senior stakeholders. · A working understanding of core concepts related to Machine Learning/AI and Data Engineering, and a clear point of view on where they create leverage in your domains. · Distributed data storage and processing framework experience (Spark and Hadoop). · Experience growing and maturing software engineering teams and technical leaders, including coaching tech leads and emerging managers, to efficiently deliver high quality software products. · Experience operating in a regulated environment (healthcare, life sciences, or financial services), with working knowledge of data privacy, security, and quality or compliance expectations for sensitive personal data. Your Basic Qualifications · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical engineering discipline, including Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Science, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), Cloud Computing, Data Science · 8+ years working in software engineering roles · 5+years of experience as a software engineering manager · Experience of ownership of the technical strategy and delivery roadmap for one or more domains, sustained across multiple planning cycles · Experience with web and cloud technologies ## Description As the leader of an engineering team accountable for one or more domains, or bounded contexts, within our Commercial or Clinical portfolio, you will set the multi-year technical direction for those domains and use the best of what modern web technologies and architecture have to offer, to design solutions that transform patient experiences and improve treatment outcomes. These products will meet patients where they are due to your close collaboration with our user-experience, product, business, medical, and regulatory partners. You will define the engineering standards, platform investments, and ways of working that extend beyond your own team, and you will partner with business and technology leaders to translate portfolio strategy into a funded, staffed engineering roadmap that is responsive to both business and patient needs. You will also ready your domains for an agentic future: raising the team's fluency with AI-assisted engineering, designing systems and data so that well-governed APIs, tools, and context are available for agents to act on safely, and making deliberate, evidence-based choices about where AI and agentic capabilities create real value for the business and for patients rather than novelty. How You'll Succeed: · As a Software Engineering Manager, you will bring both your leadership and technical depth to set direction for the applications and platform capabilities across your domains that exceed product goals and transform the ecosystem. · Leveraging your strong background in software engineering to guide the team's work, resolve the most ambiguous and technically complex problems, and own technology and architecture direction for the products and platforms in your domains, including build-versus-buy, platform consolidation, and technical-debt investment decisions that play out over multiple planning cycles. · Owning a multi-year technical roadmap for your domains: sequencing platform investment against business outcomes, quantifying the trade-offs, and defending that plan in annual planning and funding cycles. · By maximizing the potential of your team, providing guidance, mentorship and growth opportunities, deepening the technical capability of the team, and deliberately developing the next generation of technical leads and people managers, while fostering a collaborative work environment that promotes innovation. · Matching unique product needs to the resources and skills within your team, while owning headcount planning, budget, and vendor and partner sourcing for your domains, and forecasting capacity several quarters ahead against a demand pipeline you help shape. · Driving process change beyond your own team, continuously evaluating and enhancing software engineering processes, methodologies, and tools to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity, and establishing the engineering standards and metrics that peer teams adopt. · Owning the operational health of your domains - service levels, reliability, incident response, security posture, and adherence to data privacy and regulatory requirements - and making the investment case when that health needs attention. · As a superb communicator and influencer with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively with your team and product stakeholders, and build alignment across engineering, product, design, and business leadership, representing engineering at the Director and Executive Director level. · Setting clear objectives, scope and schedules, ensuring the team understands of expectations and priorities, and making transparent, well-reasoned trade-offs when strategy, capacity, and timelines conflict. · Owning the hiring bar and talent strategy for your domains: attracting strong technical talent, building succession depth for critical roles, and managing performance with candor.