Principal Digital Solutions Engineer

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 Anthropics 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.

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.

The engineering will lead the deployment of solutions across Lilly Manufacturing sites - including site onboarding, configuration, change management, training, and stand-up of ongoing support.

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.