Principal Platform Engineer - Research Data Platform

About the role

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. 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.

What you'll do

• AI, Agents and MCP Tooling
• Design and build AI agents and intelligent automation tools that help research scientists and data engineers interact with the platform more effectively
• Design and implement MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations that connect AI agents to platform data sources, tools, and services - enabling seamless
• Data Engineering and Platform Capabilities
• Contribute to platform documentation, technical design proposals - ensuring that AI integrations, MCP patterns

What you need

• 6–10 yrs of experience
• Research
• CI/CD
• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• LLMs
• Java
• dbt
• Python
• Grafana
• Incident response