lilly · US: USA Remote ·
Lead data engineering for LillyDirect, a direct-to-patient pharmacy platform, building HIPAA-compliant data pipelines, consent governance, and semantic layers using SQL, Python, Databricks, and cloud DW tools in a regulated pharma environment.
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.
Associate Director – Data Engineering Lead - LillyDirect Platform
Responsibilities
You will join a growing team of business intelligence and analytics professionals focused on Lilly's first-party patient data initiatives. The Associate Director – Patient Data Engineering Lead will own the data engineering foundation for LillyDirect, Lilly's direct-to-patient pharmacy platform.
This role is responsible for designing and delivering patient analytics data products that span prescription initiation, dispensing fulfillment, and end-to-end patient journey analytics — integrating LillyDirect data flows into the broader consumer first-party data ecosystem. A critical dimension of this role is ensuring HIPAA authorization and SPI (Sensitive Personal Information) consent governance: from consent capture and preference center architecture to enterprise-level revocation propagation across integrated systems and intake pharmacy partners.
You will build scalable ingestion pipelines for pharmacy partner data, implement tokenization and identity resolution for linked patient analytics, and deliver semantic layers that enable downstream BI, reporting, and agentic AI use cases.
This position works closely with the LillyDirect product team, intake pharmacy partners, the consumer first party data platform team, and BIA platform enablement — translating patient analytics requirements into governed, scalable, privacy-first implementations.
The ideal candidate combines deep data engineering expertise with a strong command of healthcare privacy regulations and a passion for enabling trusted patient analytics at enterprise scale. This position works with the Sr. Director – Consumer Data Engineering.
Key Objectives:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Information Technology, Information Management, or related degree
5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on developing data products and solutions in healthcare, pharma, or similarly regulated environments.
5+ years of expertise in SQL, Python
5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native data engineering tools (ex. Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Spark) and enterprise data warehouse platforms (ex. Snowflake, Redshift, or equivalent), with exposure to large-scale patient or clinical datasets.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1
Additional Information
0-25% travel depending on business need
Additional Skills/Preferences
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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is
$132,000 - $193,600Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
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