The Associate Director - Discovery Informatics will play a strategic leadership role in driving tech strategy, governance, process consistency, and compliance across LCCI LRL Discovery TECHLILLY areas. This role will influence and shape the IT agenda for Discovery team, while contributing to the strategy and roadmap of broader LRL Tech, ensuring alignment with key investment programs and the strategic priorities of the information officer s office. The role demands a solid technical and domain leadership presence to drive innovation, AI capabilities, and engineering excellence in the Discovery Informatics space, focusing on computational drug discovery, cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and translational informatics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the tech strategy, governance, processes, and compliance efforts across Discovery Informatics , ensuring seamless collaboration across global LRL and LCCI teams.
- Define and execute a multi-year strategy and capability roadmap for LRL TechLilly, ensuring alignment with business objectives in computational drug discovery and informatics.




- Drive innovation and AI adoption in Research domain, maximizing the impact of emerging technologies such as deep learning, molecular simulations, and generative AI for drug design.
- Ensure excellence in portfolio delivery with a focus on Outcome over Ownership, leveraging best-in-class strategy and engineering KPIs for cheminformatics, bioinformatics, and computational chemistry initiatives.
- Strong ability to strategize, lead and create software ecosystems that integrate with LIMS, ELN, compound registration systems, analytical instrumentation, and results repositories, ensuring seamless tracking of research data from experiment to publication .
- Build and lead high-performing product and engineering teams specializing in scientific computing, AI/ML-driven drug discovery, and translational informatics, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
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📌 Associate Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eli Lilly
📍 Bengaluru