Principal Data Engineer

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Data Platforms - Principal Data Engineer, Data Ingestion and Storage

Location: Hybrid - Hook, UK

Team: Data Platforms

Supervisor: Director, Data Platforms

Position Description:

Data Engineering at Elanco is growing across ingestion, integration, transformation, and consumption capabilities to deliver data products that will transform how the organization leverages data.

The Data Engineering and Platforms team is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to provide technical leadership to both internal and partner teams working within our Enterprise Data environment.

This is a broad role which will include coaching and leading junior engineers in their domain, as well as partnering with leadership to deliver on the engineering strategy.

To be successful in an engineering role at Elanco requires a highly motivated individual with an innovative mindset and willingness to drive tangible outcomes.

The individual must be able to articulate complex technical topics, collaborate with internal and external partners and ensure quality delivery of the required data products.

Reporting to the Director - Data Platforms, the Principal Data Engineer is responsible for unlocking and orchestrating the smooth of data, ensuring stable pipelines and data products, and communicating our capabilities and patterns in easily consumable, compelling ways.

This role focuses on speed to value, improving our organization’s access to useful data, and championing continual improvement.

Responsibilities:


* Support change management as new data products land into the organization.


* Articulate our technical direction and upskill colleagues (both internal and external) in leveraging our Enterprise Data Platforms to deliver data products across our enterprise and ensure value is well understood.


* Partner with the greater Data Engineering and Platforms Organization to help drive consistency across different domains.


* Drive opportunities from the Data Platforms – Enterprise Data Products backlog and provide technical leadership in design and execution of those s...