Manufacturing 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.

At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

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!

Your Role: Manufacturing Solution Architect

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.

Our Manufacturing organization has an aggressive vision to implement a digital-first approach to modernizing Elanco pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.

As a Manufacturing Solution Architect, you will champion the adoption of modern manufacturing IT paradigms including EDGE computing, IT/OT convergence, and Unified Namespace (UNS) strategies to enable real-time data orchestration and smart factory capabilities.

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 manufacturing SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.

In this role, you will partner 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.

Your Responsibilities:

Supporting manufacturing and associated products

· Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap within the manufacturing product group or series of related products ensuring the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.

· Own key...