About the Business Function:

Eli Lillys Global DIA organization is seeking an AI Solution Architect / Lead to own the end-to-end AI and analytics architecture across the Manufacturing Quality (MQ) technology portfolio. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role for a senior technologist with deep roots in pharmaceutical manufacturing, enterprise AI platforms, and GxP-regulated system design. The architect will set technical direction, govern AI solution quality, and bridge business strategy to production-grade intelligent systems across quality management, manufacturing line analytics, pharmacovigilance, and the Global Manufacturing Data Fabric.

Role: AI Solution Architect / Lead

Key Responsibilities

AI Architecture Technical Leadership
- Define and own the AI/analytics solution architecture across the MQ DIA portfolio covering data ingestion, RAG pipelines, agentic orchestration, MCP server ecosystems, model serving, and GxP-compliant deployment.
- Lead Architecture Review Boards (ARBs), produce Architecture Decision Records (ADRs),



and enforce design standards across squads and platforms.
- Evaluate and select AI/ML frameworks, cloud services, and data platforms maintaining a technology radar aligned to Lillys enterprise direction.
- Translate executive strategy into multi-quarter technical roadmaps with phased deliverables, resource estimates, and risk registers.

Agentic AI, RAG Advanced Analytics
- Architect multi-agent orchestration systems (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) for manufacturing workflows: deviation investigation, complaint triage, CAPA recommendation, and batch release support.
- Design enterprise RAG architectures across QMS, MES, and regulatory knowledge bases with retrieval fidelity, hybrid search, and audit-ready provenance.
- Define MCP server architecture standards for exposing manufacturing APIs (Veeva, MES, LIMS) as structured LLM-consumable tool interfaces.
- Architect real-time analytics on OSI PI / Kafka streams for predictive qualit

📌 AI Solution Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eli Lilly
📍 Bengaluru