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

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.

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 effectiveness and pragmatism.


* Partner with core engineering groups to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon.


* Act as an escalation point of contact to diagnose and problem solve data engineering challenges.


* Look for opportunities to modernize our data landscape, maximizing investments and driving more reliable outcomes.


* Contribute to the Data Engineering community across Elanco to inspire, engage, and ignite innovation.


* Embrace and demonstrate a learning, growth, and sharing mindset.


* Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications): 


* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.


* 6+ years of ...