Lead -Software Engineer

About the position

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. We're driven by our vision of 'Food and Companionship Enriching Life' and our approach to sustainability - the Elanco Healthy Purpose - to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise. 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!

Responsibilities

• Join a diverse engineering organisation and contribute to growing our engineering capabilities across Software, and Platform Engineering.
• 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 technologically sound, avoid technical debt, guarantee compliance, and enable the required business outcome.
• Collaborate across Platform Engineering teams to provide input to shaping their products allowing software engineers to deliver business value faster than ever before.
• 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.
• Build and run responsibility across the products you work on balancing the quality and stability of the product with new feature enhancements.
• Partner with the Product Managers to establish a working backlog including assisting in sizing of items and helping design engineering approaches to meet application of feature requirements.
• Opportunity to participate in rotations to other functions or teams within Engineering to broaden your skillsets.
• Play a role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.
• You will join our 'core function' building platforms that continue to advance developer experience across our enterprise, a highly dynamic area full of exciting opportunities.
• You will be working with both front-end technologies and back-end technologies and integration with 3rd party SaaS solutions.
• Supporting and driving several capabilities that support our development processes this includes configuration of SaaS capabilities as well as building and supporting custom built solutions.
• You will contribute and shape our Horizon software developer patterns leveraging infrastructure as code and providing opinionated view that gets developers across the enterprise started faster.
• You will define the testing strategy for projects, including various types of testing. Implements automated testing frameworks.
• You will assess the risks early in the product discovery process, considering factors like time constraints, available skills and technologies, and potential technical debt. Ensuring the team builds only what is truly valuable.
• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with your tech lead or Principal Engineers in software engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.
• Upskill and coach engineers on the product to build a highly competent engineering unit.
• 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 the business through partnership with product management and digital product delivery utilising modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a 'show them, don't tell them' culture.

Requirements

• 10 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies.
• 5 + years of experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.
• 8 + years of experience designing and delivering digital solutions following a product-mindset and a variety of delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, CCPM, etc.).
• 5 + 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.
• Familiarity or experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with software deployment capabilities including Kubernetes.
• Operational experience having supported and iterated on custom built applications.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
• Passion for simplicity and great Developer Experience.
• Experience scaling an 'API-Ecosystem', designing, and implementing 'API-First' integration patterns.
• Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• 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.

Benefits

• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Opportunities for career progression
• Engagement in innovative projects