Associate Director

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 Lilly s Purpose 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 35 000 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 Come bring to life technologies to lead in Pharma-tech The Enterprise Data Platforms enable the platform has developed an integrated and intuitive databases integration and analytics platform This platform enables Lilly business functions enables quickly utilize the database services integration services and analytics platform What you will be doing Reporting to the Director and as Associate Director-Database Reliability Engineering will lead the operations reliability and performance engineering of on-premises and cloud database platforms supporting the Enterprise Data Platform This leadership role focuses on scalability automation reliability and operational excellence enabling seamless support for mission-critical data services across analytical transactional and integration workloads The role requires a blend of deep database expertise SRE principles and operational leadership to drive stability resiliency and continuous improvement for hybrid enterprise-scale environments How you will succeed Define and execute the database operations and reliability strategy balancing performance availability and cost efficiency across on-prem and cloud ecosystems AWS Azure GCP Establish and mature the DBRE model for database platforms embedding reliability observability and automation in daily operations Partner with architects engineering teams and stakeholders to align operations with enterprise data and digital transformation goals How you will succeed Define and execute the database operations and reliability strategy balancing performance availability and cost efficiency across on-prem and cloud ecosystems AWS Azure GCP Establish and mature the DBRE model for database platforms embedding reliability observability and automation in daily operations Partner with architects engineering teams and stakeholders to align operations with enterprise data and digital transformation goals Team Leadership Collaboration Lead mentor and grow a team of Database Administrators RE engineers and platform specialists supporting global environments Foster a DevOps and SRE culture driving collaboration between data engineering analytics application and infrastructure teams Create operational playbooks runbooks and implementing Agentic AI on the DB Ops and Observability to standardize and streamline incident response and recovery processes Operations Platform Management Oversee day-to-day operations of enterprise databases including Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL and cloud-native services like RDS Aurora DynamoDB and Azure SQL Drive automation-first operations leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code IaC CI CD pipelines Ansible and self-healing mechanisms Implement robust disaster recovery failover and capacity management processes to ensure high platform availability Lead performance engineering efforts including capacity planning tuning and cost optimization SRE Reliability Engineering Build and maintain observability frameworks with metrics logging and tracing for proactive monitoring and alerting Define and manage Service Level Objectives SLOs Service Level Indicators SLIs and Service Level Agreements SLAs for database services Establish incident management problem management and root cause analysis RCA processes to improve Mean Time to Detect MTTD and Mean Time to Recovery MTTR Champion a blameless post-mortem culture and drive continuous reliability improvements Education Experience Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related field 14 years of experience in enterprise database operations with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing hybrid or multi-cloud environments Proven experience building and scaling SRE practices for data platforms in regulated enterprise-scale environments Technical Skills Expertise in relational and NoSQL database platforms Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL Graph DB Mongo DB Vector DB Hands-on experience with cloud-native database services AWS RDS Aurora DynamoDB Azure SQL GCP BigQuery Proficiency in automation tools Terraform Ansible CloudFormation and CI CD pipelines Strong understanding of observability tools Datadog Prometheus Grafana Splunk New Relic or equivalent Knowledge of high-availability architectures replication sharding and database performance tuning Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance requirements in regulated industries Key Performance Indicators KPIs Uptime and reliability of database services Reduction in Mean Time to Detect MTTD and Mean Time to Recovery MTTR Automation coverage and reduction in manual operations Cost efficiency and capacity utilization metrics Compliance audit success rates and zero security incidents Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a 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