Solution Architect

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description: 

Elanco IT is evolving to meet the quickening pace of innovation, proactively partnering to create new value through innovative digital products, services, and insights for both internal business partners and external customers.

As a Solution Architect, you will provide technical thought leadership and contribute to the business vision.

You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence technology investments and product roadmaps.

This role requires technical breadth and depth in application architecture, software engineering, and SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.

In this role, you will support key product groups and products across our enterprise, partnering with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Principal Engineers to ensure the holistic direction of a product is enabled by enterprise technology investments. Additionally, solution architects are critical in ensuring that technology solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.

To be successful, you should be a highly motivated individual with an innovative and strategic mindset, a bias for action, proactive communication skills, and the ability to form and communicate a strong perspective.

You must be able to articulate and translate complex technical topics to stakeholders, help lift the technical competency of teams, collaborate with internal/external partners, ensure alignment with architectural principles and standards, and drive tangible business outcomes.

While a solution architect may be deployed across variety of different product teams areas, this role will  initially focus on our Pipeline Product Group emphasizing technology and solutions to enable pharmaceutical drug discovery, clinical functions, and regulatory.  This role will be critical to modernizing Elanco’s drug development systems and enabling the science around our new products.  A background in designing and delivering IT systems to support life sciences is preferred.
 

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