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Job Summary:
Elanco is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services for farm animals and pets. As a Solution Architect, you will provide technical thought leadership, influence technology investments, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles while collaborating with product teams to drive business outcomes.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap within a product group or series of related products ensuring the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.
• Own key architecture assets including the city map and reference architecture to influence the right investments across a product group with a focus not only on new features but technical debt reduction.
• Design implementation paths for custom and Line of Business applications (Software-as-a-Service and Commercial-of-the-Shelf), covering commodity/highly industrialised business processes.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Principal Engineers to support taking an architectural design to a ‘ready to build’ state.
• Apply external technology trends (e.g. AI, cloud-native) to business problems applying where there is value influencing product teams to help drive future technology strategies.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering in pre discovery activities helping to understand potential technical direction informing the hiring of key technical roles.
• Supporting the integration of custom and SaaS based applications considering build vs buy and driving a composable landscape between solutions.
• Support Product Managers in business discussions helping to clearly articulate how technology visions and roadmaps support business outcomes.
• Build relationships with business stakeholders to better understand their needs and influence necessary changes and technology investments to meet business outcomes.
• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), and internal Elanco Engineers helping to ensure technical competency and architecture alignment.
• Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities to rationalize or combine technologies that cut across functions looking for both efficiency and reuse opportunities.
• Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions delivered meet enterprise requirements.
• Identify opportunities to directly contribute to architecture standards and patterns that product teams can use to implement solutions.
• Contribute to the identification and rationalization of technical debt looking to recommend and support portfolio health initiatives across functions and enterprise.
• Enable the discovery capability to help validate business and technology direction.
Qualifications:
Required:
• DevSecOps culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.
• Education: B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science.
• Required Experience: 5+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems.
• Experience in large technology selection processes able to lead technical decision making.
• Strong technical background ideally from a hands-on IT engineering background, with array of different experiences in Architecture space.
• Appreciation of data architecture principles.
• Experience working with: Modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)
• Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.
• Experience with interface implementation between SaaS providers (leveraging Integration-as-a-service frameworks).
• Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.
• Experience scaling an 'API-Ecosystem', designing, and implementing 'API-First' integration patterns.
• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.
• Strong leadership and proactive communication skills with a strong bias for action and ability to advise others.
Preferred:
• Familiarity with infrastructure considerations (networking, hosting, security, etc.) in enabling on-premise and cloud IT solutions.
• Experience working in a regulated industry such as life sciences or equivalent.
• Solution architecture certifications for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working in a product operating model delivering architecture capability across product.
Company:
Elanco is an animal health company that manufactures and markets a diverse range of products to promote animal health and well-being. Founded in 1954, the company is headquartered in Greenfield, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.