As a leading global animal health company, Elanco delivers innovative products and services to improve the health of pets and farm animals around the world because we believe making animals' lives better, makes life better. Since 1954, we have provided solutions that support veterinarians, farmers and pet owners to advance our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life. Elanco's promise to employees: Together, we foster an inclusive culture where everyone can make a difference, encouraging ownership, growth and well-being.
Historically, the role of IT has been to provide a reliable ecosystem to run the business, drive efficiencies and reduce costs. These areas remain integral, however, driven by the quickening pace of innovation, IT must evolve, proactively partnering with the business to enable new digital business models that power new types of customer engagement.
At Elanco, our engineer roles bring adaptive set of skills focused on software engineering covering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Commercial-of-the-Shelf (CotS) and/or Custom Developed applications. The role is part of our new enterprise engineering team focused on our enterprise backlog looking at the biggest engineering opportunities for Elanco. This is an incredibly exciting role with opportunities to get involved in everything from CICD and process automation, new business discovery opportunities, application builds and much much more!
To be successful in an engineering role in Elanco requires a highly motivated individual, with an innovative mindset and a willingness to drive tangible outcomes. The individual must be able to articulate complex technical topics, collaborate with external partners and ensure quality delivery of the required solution.
Responsibilities:
Engineering
Partner with Engineering Manager - IAC , Content Engineering Lead and Service Delivery Lead - IAC to drive a technical direction and standards for web and front-end applications across the enterprise
Plan and manage technical throughput of work in the web space aligning with engineering leadership to ensure focus on the right outcomes
Articulate technical direction and upskill anyone leveraging core web platforms including internal and external engineers across all digital applications
Drive to standard technical implementation leveraging standard languages, frameworks, and pipelines
Drive modernisation plan to bring legacy applications in line with new standards where appropriate
Partner with core engineering group to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon in addition to cost of running our web capabilities globally
Ensure secure reliable and efficient operation ensuring the latest standards are adopted
Position the web toolkit and associated capabilities amongst other internal and external capability
Provide technical leadership, consultation for functional team engineers and outsourced partners providing trouble shooting and support when using the platform
Deploy squads as required to support functional engineering in leveraging the core web services
Look for opportunities to modernise applications running on the core platform helping Elanco to maximise investments and drive more reliable outcomes
Daily & Monthly Responsibilities
Drive web core technical direction ensuring we continue to invest in a strong core foundation
Coach engineers in the web core team helping their technical development
Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control
Lead the squad attending daily stand ups and building against defined backlog items
Report up process, activity and key achievements across the team
Help break user stories into technical deliverables
Innovation
Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using hackathon and other formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT
Use modern product approaches to influence and shape he business through partnership with BRM (Business Relationship Management) utilising modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a show them, dont tell them culture.
Help with the stand up and creation of an innovation rapid response engineering squad to facilitate ideation and business idea shaping around technology products and investments.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience leveraging headless API driven CMS and common development toolchain including Github suite (SCM, Actions)
Javascript experience including experience with node.JS, next.js advantageous
Experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)
Experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
Experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.)
Experience working within a DevSecOps culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.
Proven track record of hands-on software engineering (e.g. Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, etc.)
Experience with SaaS technologies advantageous including; Salesforce, Veeva, Kentico Kontent
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.
Experience working with authentication and authorisation protocols/patterns.
Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.
Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.
Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.
Experience and knowledge of infrastructure, CICD and deployment an advantage
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status
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