Lead Data Engineer

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: Lead Data Engineer

Data Engineering at Elanco delivers products and thought leadership that transform how the organization leverages data.

The Data Engineering team is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to bring significant discovery and delivery capabilities to our pharmaceutical research and development-focused Pipeline product tower.

This is a hands-on, internally focused role expected to help us execute on and ultimately deliver our data strategy, as well as coach junior engineers.

 

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 Engineering, the Lead 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.

Your Responsibilities:  


* Partner with your Product Manager to lead squads through sprints, engage in product discovery, enhance engineering designs, and develop compelling solutions to prioritized problem statements.


* Leverage modern product approaches to influence and shape the business, e.g.

discovery, rapid prototyping, and embedding a culture of working out loud.


* Advocate for, and educate colleagues and stakeholders on, our Enterprise Data Engineering capabilities to ensure their value and potential is well understood.


* Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control.


* Support and execute quality change management practices, ensuring a high bar for quality.


* Drive Elanco’s data standards, leveraging standard languages and frameworks across the enterprise, continually reviewing them to ensure a balance of effective...