Engineer

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.  ABOUT LILLY At Lilly, everything we do starts with patients. We unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our global team of over 50,000 employees work with urgency and purpose to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. We bring our best to this work because people depend on it. If you're driven by purpose and determined to make a meaningful difference for patients, we invite you to bring your skill and your commitment to Lilly. ABOUT TECHNOLOGY@LILLY At Lilly, technology is not a support function. It is how a global medicine company operates, innovates, and delivers. Lilly in Bengaluru builds the capabilities that make this possible, cloud platforms, AI systems, and automation at enterprise scale, all in service of a purpose that makes this technology work genuinely distinctive, from advancing drug discovery to enabling connected clinical trials to keeping a global medicine company running at the standard patients deserve. ABOUT THE BUSINESS FUNCTION At Lilly, CTI-MD Data is the data heavy organization building data products and intelligence layer for Medicine Development — owning 100+ marketplace data products, hundreds of clinical pipelines, and the governance foundation behind Lilly's regulatory submissions, data locks, and patient safety reporting. We're modernizing to a unified, AI enabled context-ready Lakehouse, and building a team where engineers own domain outcomes end to end.

The Senior Data Engineer – Data Experience Engineering is an experience-led senior individual contributor who starts from evidence about how scientists, statisticians, clinical data managers, safety, and regulatory teams actually discover, trust, and consume data — and then builds the pipelines and data products that answer those needs. The role works upstream of delivery, replacing assumption with structured user evidence, and carries that evidence through to production across Bronze / Silver / Gold Lakehouse pipelines on Databricks and AWS. It converts business and user needs into technology direction — capability requirements, evaluation criteria, and how enterprise platforms are selected and configured — and holds the engineering depth to prove those recommendations in working code. AI-assisted solutions are the expected way of working across both halves of the role, and as a senior engineer this role sets standards, mentors others, and packages proven patterns as reusable assets across Clinical and Non-Clinical squads.

Experience-Led Discovery & Data Product Definition Plan and run mixed-methods research — contextual inquiry, interviews, usability testing, surveys, and behavioral analytics — with scientific, clinical, safety, regulatory, and business communities to determine which data products should exist and why. Map user journeys and data workflows across Clinical and Non-Clinical domains, surfacing friction, workarounds, and unmet needs, and analyse product telemetry alongside qualitative findings so behaviour and stated need are read together. Translate evidence into prioritised, decision-ready requirements, data contracts, and design principles, distinguishing genuine capability