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: 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. 

 

As a Solution Architect supporting our Platform Engineering teams, you will provide technical thought leadership and contribute to the business vision by shaping the platforms, standards, and engineering foundations that enable teams to deliver securely, reliably, and at speed.

You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence technology investments and product roadmaps, while helping ensure our engineering ecosystem is positioned to support both current delivery needs and Elanco’s future AI engineering agenda. 

In this role, you will partner closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Principal Engineers, Solution Architects, and engineering teams to ensure the holistic direction of our engineering platforms is aligned to the most important developer pain points and business outcomes.

You will help translate enterprise architecture into practical engineering standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, and self-service capabilities that teams can adopt with confidence. 

Your Responsibilities:  
 

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 explain complex technical topics to a wide range of stakeholders, lift the technical competency of teams, collaborate with internal and external partners, ensure alignment with architectural principles and standards, and drive tangible engineering and business outcomes. 

Platform Strategy and Developer Experience 


* Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap for platform engineering capabilities that support both software engineering and data engineering teams. 



* Define and maintain a holistic view of Elanco’s engineering platform ...