Job Description

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. Position Description: 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 process automation, new business discovery opportunities, everything-as-code, application builds and 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 Work with a diverse team on some of Elanco\'s most exciting engineering initiatives from application development, automation, and business discovery opportunities. Develop full-stack solutions, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. Implement and support modern digital products that are technological sound, avoid technical debt, guarantee compliance, and enable the required business outcome. Identify and position new techniques and technologies that drive secure, efficient, reliable applications. Look for continuous improvement opportunities in our core ecosystem identifying new ways to enhance application team and developer experience. Embed security, privacy, data protection and quality assurance across all digital solutions. Bring agile development experience and help upskill the organisation as we adopt practices to improve time to market. Partner with Solution Architecture to ensure all digital products adhere with the enterprise architecture principles, declaration, and reference architecture. Daily Monthly Responsibilities Operational responsibility for key Engineering products including accelerators, dashboards and automation capabilities built in house. Identify opportunities to minimise operational effort required to run SaaS, COTs applications, partner with teams to further challenge vendor partners in the capabilities provided. Influence application modernisation including languages and frameworks utilised across custom built applications to ensure our applications remain modern, efficient, and well supported. Where required work as part of a scrum team with engineers across the team to deliver high quality solutions to business problems. Partner with our automation team to stand up and continually modernise software development processes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) techniques to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery. Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), helping to ensure technical competency and architecture alignment. Establish a strong partnership with Information Security, helping to identify opportunities and mitigate risks. Coach and mentor junior engineers, members of our student program to help build a strong connected organisation 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, don\'t 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 in some of the following areas essential. 1 - 3+ years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.). 1 - 3+ years of experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud. 1 - 3+ years of experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.). 1 - 3+ years of experience working within a \'DevSecOps\' culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc. Experience with software deployment capabilities including Kubernetes. 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 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. Experience working in complex, diverse landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.). Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction. Education Requirements: Bachelor\'s Degree in Information Technology. Other Information: Occasional travel may be required. 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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