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Get Access To All JobsAt 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.
Technology continues to transform every aspect of society, including healthcare. Lilly envisions digital capabilities as an extension of our medicines, not just a marketing tactic. We, as consumers, have come to expect digital experiences to augment and support our experiences with medicines — especially to help reduce the burden of coping and managing through chronic disease for us, our loved ones, and health care providers. Hence, Lilly's Software Product Engineering team is committed to exploring how next-generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers, and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly — improve patient outcomes.
The SPE Technical Lead & Engineering Manager will be responsible for developing and leading technical solutions supporting one or more Digital Health platforms. You will need to engage multiple teams to define technical requirements, develop designs, and align technology that enables the platform architecture all while meeting medical device regulatory expectations. Additionally, the organization will look to you to be a leader across SPE projects influencing other tech leads in how we develop platform solutions following best practices and driving our platform innovation roadmap.
What You'll Be Doing:
Architecture & Technical Direction
- Own and approve system architecture and design decisions across your platform area.
- Lead technical design reviews and ensure consistent, scalable, and resilient implementation.
- Partner with product and design teams to architect maintainable solutions and evaluate UX feasibility.
- Collaborate with other technical teams on the design of dependencies and shared services.
- Provide technical evaluation of proposed ideas, software changes, and future releases.
- Align SPE technical solutions with Lilly-supported technologies.
People Leadership & Team Management
- Directly manage a team of 2–5 engineers.
- Own performance management, coaching, career development.
- Set team priorities, manage capacity and workload, and remove obstacles to delivery.
- Foster team health, engagement, and a high-performing engineering culture in a geographically separate location.
- Partner with the Delivery Manager on staffing, planning, and delivery commitments.
Planning, Strategy & Innovation
- Drive the development and execution of the platform innovation roadmap, including working proof-of-concept models in new technology spaces.
- Provide input on future features and strategy across a 6–12 month horizon.
- Lead cutover planning and ensure system dependencies are well understood and delivered appropriately.
- Identify and scope spike work; recommend new technologies and tools.
- Support and drive transformation initiatives.
- Champion the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices — including AI-augmented development tooling — to accelerate delivery, raise code quality, and expand team capacity.
Security, Quality & Standards
- Enable technical delivery of SPE software components, including understanding and addressing risk, privacy, cybersecurity, and legal constraints.
- Support cybersecurity architecture evaluations.
- Develop and drive adoption of platform development standards and architecture patterns across the organization.
- Maintain technical documentation, including system design artifacts, security plans, and SOPs.
- Document open-source standards in the Quality Management System and enforce SPE engineering standards.
- Apply knowledge of medical device delivery models and quality systems to ensure solutions align with regulatory expectations and timelines.
Collaboration, Mentorship & Influence
- Influence tech leads across SPE on how we develop platform solutions following best practices.
- Mentor team members and participate actively in guilds and learning forums.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer to operations and ensure their involvement in technical planning.
- Build effective relationships with key technical resources and architects to influence SPE technology solutions.
- Engage business stakeholders to understand requirements and align technical solutions.
- Provide guidance to Lilly and non-Lilly software delivery teams in best-practice Agile delivery.
- Apply knowledge of Lilly business processes and technology to keep deliveries consistent with strategy and roadmap.
Your Basic Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience delivering software solutions across the full development lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, and support).
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of software projects.
- 3+ years of direct people-management experience leading engineers.
What You Should Bring:
- Demonstrated success managing and developing a small engineering team, including performance and career conversations.
- Ability to manage and keep control of multiple software development and integration efforts.
- Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers.
- Proven initiative to learn new technologies and seek opportunities to apply them.
- Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and implementations.
- Experience with architected asynchronous systems, using tools like Kafka or similar.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and other cloud service providers.
- Experience with identity management or authentication providers (preferably Okta).
- Experience with GitHub.
- Experience with CI/CD capabilities and industry best practices.
- Experience using Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) or similar toolsets.
- High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest.
Additional Information
Role is located in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model — relocation required.
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 position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $138,000 - $246,400.
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities). Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
WeAreLilly
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.
Technology continues to transform every aspect of society, including healthcare. Lilly envisions digital capabilities as an extension of our medicines, not just a marketing tactic. We, as consumers, have come to expect digital experiences to augment and support our experiences with medicines — especially to help reduce the burden of coping and managing through chronic disease for us, our loved ones, and health care providers. Hence, Lilly's Software Product Engineering team is committed to exploring how next-generation therapeutic ecosystems, connected solutions, and data analytics can transform the customer (patients, health care providers, and payers) experience, demonstrate value, and most importantly — improve patient outcomes.
The SPE Technical Lead & Engineering Manager will be responsible for developing and leading technical solutions supporting one or more Digital Health platforms. You will need to engage multiple teams to define technical requirements, develop designs, and align technology that enables the platform architecture all while meeting medical device regulatory expectations. Additionally, the organization will look to you to be a leader across SPE projects influencing other tech leads in how we develop platform solutions following best practices and driving our platform innovation roadmap.
What You'll Be Doing:
Architecture & Technical Direction
- Own and approve system architecture and design decisions across your platform area.
- Lead technical design reviews and ensure consistent, scalable, and resilient implementation.
- Partner with product and design teams to architect maintainable solutions and evaluate UX feasibility.
- Collaborate with other technical teams on the design of dependencies and shared services.
- Provide technical evaluation of proposed ideas, software changes, and future releases.
- Align SPE technical solutions with Lilly-supported technologies.
People Leadership & Team Management
- Directly manage a team of 2–5 engineers.
- Own performance management, coaching, career development.
- Set team priorities, manage capacity and workload, and remove obstacles to delivery.
- Foster team health, engagement, and a high-performing engineering culture in a geographically separate location.
- Partner with the Delivery Manager on staffing, planning, and delivery commitments.
Planning, Strategy & Innovation
- Drive the development and execution of the platform innovation roadmap, including working proof-of-concept models in new technology spaces.
- Provide input on future features and strategy across a 6–12 month horizon.
- Lead cutover planning and ensure system dependencies are well understood and delivered appropriately.
- Identify and scope spike work; recommend new technologies and tools.
- Support and drive transformation initiatives.
- Champion the responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices — including AI-augmented development tooling — to accelerate delivery, raise code quality, and expand team capacity.
Security, Quality & Standards
- Enable technical delivery of SPE software components, including understanding and addressing risk, privacy, cybersecurity, and legal constraints.
- Support cybersecurity architecture evaluations.
- Develop and drive adoption of platform development standards and architecture patterns across the organization.
- Maintain technical documentation, including system design artifacts, security plans, and SOPs.
- Document open-source standards in the Quality Management System and enforce SPE engineering standards.
- Apply knowledge of medical device delivery models and quality systems to ensure solutions align with regulatory expectations and timelines.
Collaboration, Mentorship & Influence
- Influence tech leads across SPE on how we develop platform solutions following best practices.
- Mentor team members and participate actively in guilds and learning forums.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer to operations and ensure their involvement in technical planning.
- Build effective relationships with key technical resources and architects to influence SPE technology solutions.
- Engage business stakeholders to understand requirements and align technical solutions.
- Provide guidance to Lilly and non-Lilly software delivery teams in best-practice Agile delivery.
- Apply knowledge of Lilly business processes and technology to keep deliveries consistent with strategy and roadmap.
Your Basic Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience delivering software solutions across the full development lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, and support).
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience in delivery of software projects.
- 3+ years of direct people-management experience leading engineers.
What You Should Bring:
- Demonstrated success managing and developing a small engineering team, including performance and career conversations.
- Ability to manage and keep control of multiple software development and integration efforts.
- Demonstrable examples of leading software design and architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to propose new ideas and influence peers.
- Proven initiative to learn new technologies and seek opportunities to apply them.
- Practical knowledge of Agile software development concepts and implementations.
- Experience with architected asynchronous systems, using tools like Kafka or similar.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and other cloud service providers.
- Experience with identity management or authentication providers (preferably Okta).
- Experience with GitHub.
- Experience with CI/CD capabilities and industry best practices.
- Experience using Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) or similar toolsets.
- High level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective, and innovation interest.
Additional Information
Role is located in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model — relocation required.
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 position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.
Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA), Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly), Chinese Culture Network (CCN), EnAble, Evolve, Lilly Indian Network (LIN), Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN) and Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL).
Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $138,000 - $246,400.
Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities). Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.
WeAreLilly
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Verify your role meets specialty occupation standards
Pull the O*NET profile for Technical Lead and confirm the job zone and education requirements. USCIS scrutinizes hybrid management-engineering roles, so document that your position requires a specific technical degree, not a general bachelor's in any field.
Check prevailing wage levels before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level II and Level III wages for your SOC code and target metro area. Employers must certify the higher of the actual or prevailing wage, so knowing the floor stops you from accepting offers that can't clear the LCA.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing pathways
Universities, affiliated nonprofits, and qualifying research organizations can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap. If you're open to higher-education or research environments, these roles let you start without waiting for an April lottery selection.
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Filter by Technical Lead job titles in Migrate Mate to see which employers have active LCA certifications for this role. Prioritize companies with recent filings in your target city, since a prior LCA signals the employer already understands the specialty occupation requirements.
Request premium processing before your start date
Standard H-1B adjudication can run several months. If your offer letter has a firm start date, ask the employer to file with premium processing so USCIS targets a 15-business-day decision, reducing the risk of a delayed start or cap-gap complications.
Prepare a specialty occupation evidence package early
USCIS issues Requests for Evidence on Technical Lead petitions when the role spans both coding and people management. Gather job postings, organizational charts, and a detailed duties letter showing the position requires applied technical knowledge at the bachelor's-degree level or above.
H-1B Visa Technical Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Lead role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical discipline such as computer science, software engineering, or a related field. USCIS evaluates the actual duties, not just the title. Roles that blend team management with hands-on architecture or engineering work qualify, but employers must document why a general degree is insufficient.
How do I find employers who sponsor H-1B visas for Technical Lead positions?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified LCA filings tied to Technical Lead job titles, so you can target companies that have already navigated the DOL certification process for this role. Filtering by location and filing recency helps you focus outreach on employers actively hiring at this level rather than those who sponsored years ago in a different market.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Technical Lead role without restarting the process?
You can port to a new employer under H-1B portability once your current petition has been approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer files an I-129 transfer petition, and you can start working as soon as USCIS receives it. The specialty occupation requirements still apply, and the new role must qualify independently.
What happens to my H-1B status if I'm laid off from a Technical Lead role?
USCIS provides a 60-day grace period after involuntary termination, during which you can pursue a new H-1B transfer, change to a different visa status, or make arrangements to depart. The grace period runs once per authorized validity period, so securing a new employer petition receipt before day 60 is essential to maintaining continuous authorized status.
Does the prevailing wage for Technical Lead vary by location?
Yes. The DOL sets prevailing wages by SOC code and metropolitan area, so a Technical Lead in San Francisco carries a higher certified wage floor than the same role in a smaller market. Your employer's LCA must certify the wage applicable to the specific work location listed on the petition, not the company's headquarters city.