Prinicipal Digital Solutions Engineer
Eli Lilly · Hyderabad, Telangāna ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
Eli Lilly · Hyderabad, Telangāna ·
lilly · IN: Lilly Hyderabad
lilly · India, Bengaluru
lilly · India, Bengaluru
lilly · India, Hyderabad
Design, develop, and own production-grade digital manufacturing solutions (predictive maintenance, audit trails, intralogistics monitoring) using Python, Seeq, Power BI, and AI tools like Copilot and Claude across Eli Lilly's global pharma manufacturing network.
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.
Principal Digital Solutions 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.
Lilly's Hyderabad hub is a first-of-its-kind technical center built to lead the manufacturing and quality science agenda for Lilly's global supply network, and the work done here reaches patients in more than 110 countries.
This hub oversees contract manufacturing of starting materials and intermediates for API manufacturing in India, managing the full scientific agenda for manufacturing and quality. We're building a cutting-edge scientific organization and looking for top talent in process engineering, chemistry, analytical and data sciences to be part of it.
The science you develop here doesn't stay here. It moves through Lilly's global supply network and reaches patients across more than 110 countries who are counting on it.
Digital Manufacturing Engineering (DME) is part of the Corporate Engineering Tech Center (ETC). The ETC is a technical resource for training, standards, project implementation, and the center of engineering excellence for the corporation, providing deeply technical resources to solve the most intractable technical problems in manufacturing. DME provides Digital Engineering Platform ownership, OT data integration solutions, engineering data standardization/ownership, and digital manufacturing solutions for Lilly Manufacturing. Our team focuses on connecting our facilities (securely) and leveraging the data from those facilities to deliver digital manufacturing solutions to improve manufacturing productivity, data integrity / compliance, quality, and operational excellence. Digital Manufacturing Technologies include digital twins, computational modeling, edge/IoT, and analytics solutions. Digital Engineering Platforms include CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), GECMS (Global Engineering Content Management System) and many other digital platforms leveraged by engineers across Lilly Manufacturing.
The Principal Digital Solutions Engineer will design, develop, support, and continuously enhance digital solutions across Lilly's global manufacturing network, while serving as the owner for one or more digital products developed by the DME team. Representative solutions in scope span the four pillars of the Engineering Digital Strategy and include — but are not limited to — the Intralogistics Monitor (ILM), Audit Trail solutions, Condition-Based Maintenance solutions, RCA and troubleshooting solutions, equipment health and predictive maintenance dashboards, capital project and qualification workflow tools, engineering knowledge search, and inspection-readiness data products. These solutions are developed on standard Digital Engineering Platforms supported by the DME team, and the engineer will partner with data leads to ensure the necessary IT, OT, and ET data is available to support each solution. The engineer is also expected to leverage AI tools and platforms — such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Anthropic's Claude — to accelerate development and to embed AI capability into solutions, including building agent skills, prompt-based workflows, and retrieval/automation patterns on top of existing Lilly-approved AI platforms. This role is not focused on training or developing foundation models; it is focused on applying AI tools effectively and responsibly to manufacturing problems. This is a global role, supporting functional initiatives and all Lilly Manufacturing sites globally.
This role operates within an evolved Digital Solutions Engineering operating model. The team includes a Rapid Innovation branch that works at speed to prototype concepts and proof-of-value solutions against key business problems surfaced from the manufacturing network. The Principal Digital Solutions Engineer takes ownership of those solutions once they have been validated as worth scaling — maturing them from prototype to production-grade, hardening them for validated-system and data-integrity requirements, deploying and supporting them across sites, and providing long-term ownership over their roadmap, enhancement, and lifecycle. This split lets the Rapid Innovation branch stay focused on speed and discovery while the Principal Digital Solutions Engineer ensures that the most valuable concepts become durable, well-supported solutions that scale across the global manufacturing network.
The primary focus of the role is twofold. First, to develop and continuously enhance high-quality digital solutions that deliver measurable value to manufacturing operations — improving productivity, data integrity and compliance, quality, and operational excellence. Second, to assume the role of owner for those solutions: defining the product roadmap, managing the backlog, owning the technical architecture and lifecycle, ensuring compliance with validated-system requirements, and providing direct technical support to global users across Lilly Manufacturing. The engineer will work under guidance of the Digital Program Lead and partner closely with site engineers, network engineering organizations, and IT/OT platform owners to ensure each solution remains fit-for-purpose as the network and the underlying technology landscape evolve.
At Lilly, caring is not only what we do for patients. It is how we work. We believe the people who dedicate themselves to making medicines better deserve an environment that makes their lives better too, one where they are supported, respected, and given the space to do their best work. This is not just a policy. It is who we are.
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