POSITION DESCRIPTION:

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, you will provide technical thought leadership and contribute to the business vision. 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 SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.
In this role, you will support key product groups and products across our enterprise, partnering 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.
While a solution architect may be deployed across variety of different product teams areas, this role will initially focus on our Pipeline Product Group emphasizing technology and solutions to enable pharmaceutical drug discovery, clinical functions, and regulatory. This role will be critical to modernizing Elanco’s drug development systems and enabling the science around our new products. A background in designing and delivering IT systems to support life sciences is preferred.

ARCHITECTURE TEAM

• Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities to rationalise or combine technologies that cut across functions looking for both efficiency and reuse opportunities.
• Partner across the architecture team to deliver on key central architecture initiatives that support continued growth and impact of Architecture across Elanco.
• 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 rationalisation 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.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):

• B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science.
• 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
• “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.
• 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.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS):

• Proven track-record working with pharmaceutical development IT systems and business processes (ELN, LIMS, CDS, LES, Informatics, Instruments, HPC, Regulatory). Example technologies include Benchling, Scilligence, Empower, Veeva Systems.
• 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.

Please refer the Job description for details