Full-Stack Automation Software Engineer

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Are you interested in using the power of automation technology to transform the way IT services are delivered?

The Tech@Lilly Enterprise Automation organization is seeking a full-stack software engineer in automation to join the Tech Enablement team. The Tech Enablement team addresses enterprise IT business needs by supporting the necessary transformations in people, processes, and culture through innovation that accelerates the development of automation solutions. If you are passionate about using automation to bring significant efficiency gains, enhanced employee experiences, and cost savings to the enterprise, come join our team!

What You’ll Be Doing

In this position, you will engineer automation solutions that optimize IT infrastructure and operations and other central services by developing scalable infrastructure automation and developing reusable automation patterns between enterprise platforms. As a full-stack engineer, you’ll ensure these projects provide value, functionality, and results.

How You’ll Succeed

• As a full-stack engineer, your experience in microservices architecture, RESTful API development, and full-stack automation will allow you to deliver IT service transformation projects with global impact.
• By embracing agile methodologies and fostering innovation, you will use object-oriented programming principles to build creative, reusable automation solutions to deliver timely results.
• As a superb communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively on a global team to define, design and deliver new features.
• By maximizing your engineering expertise, attention to detail and proactivity, you will build long-lasting automation solutions ensuring maximum code quality, optimal performance, responsiveness, and scale.
• Using your problem-solving skills, you will strive to quickly identify and correct bottlenecks and analyze complex technical issues, ensuring automation processes and applications adhere to system design lifecycle standards at Lilly.
  
  
  

What You Should Bring

• Experience in design, development, and deployment of scalable backend services, microservices, RESTful APIs and event-driven automation using Node.js to integrate and automate between common IT systems and cloud platforms.
• Experience in front-end JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• Experience in design, development, and deployment of cloud-native applications using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and containerization platforms.
• Solid understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) (ex. ServiceNow) and scrum methodology (ex. Jira)and ability to apply this knowledge to automate common IT service requests, changes and incident resolutions, leading to higher self-serviceability and lower IT ticket volume.
• Consistent track record of high quality, agile focused, team-based solution delivery.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem solving, and ability to communicate and work closely with other teams, including cloud, infrastructure and platforms teams, to drive continuous infrastructure and IT service improvements.
• Proactive approach to create comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, automation scripts, and troubleshooting guides. Shown ability to deliver training to the support team as needed.
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications

Must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field
• 8 to 12+ years of hands-on experience in backend development and automation including:
• Proficiency in Node.js for backend development
• Proficiency in front-end JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture and RESTful API development
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing (AWS or Azure)
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Familiarity with ITSM automation within ServiceNow and Jira
  

Good To Have

• Proficiency in Python or Java for backend development
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Exposure to low-code automation platforms (Power Automate, IBM App Connect, Workato)
• Understanding of ITIL processes for request, change and incident management
  
  
  

About The Company

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first.

Lilly Capability Center India provides a strategic advantage to Lilly through delivery of capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that leverage technology to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business.

Travel Percentage For This Position

0-10%

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Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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