Engineering Manager

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Role Title: Engineering Manager

Location: IAC

Team: Software Engineering and Platforms

Supervisor: IT Engineering Director

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. Working closely with Solution Ops Architects helping define strong reference architectures that result in secure, scalable applications that achieve the desired business outcome.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help with the expansion of our enterprise engineering function. The role will be responsible for team leadership, technical direction, hiring and coaching of our engineers across the solution ops space located in our Elanco Innovation and Alliance Centre (IAC), Bangalore.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual, with an innovative mindset and a willingness to drive tangible outcomes. The individual must be able to partner with Software Engineering and Platform leadership team to build an engineering strategy, covering hiring, training and management of staff and support staff across the organisation.

Responsibilities:

Engineering

· Join the Engineering lead team setting team vision and direction including strategy, hiring, onboarding and continuous technical management.

· Drive scaled delivery model through key vendor relationships to provide facility to deliver engineering excellence across functional IT teams.

· Coach engineers helping to develop technical skills find opportunities across engineering to build a good engineering competency across the organisation.

· Engage across our enterprise web platform, development toolchain, automation, and our business discovery capabilities to help strategize and align technical direction.

· Drive good Engineering practices across the teams partnering with our process engineer to drive strong engineering discipline across the engineering organisation.

· Identify opportunities to modernize and optimize the IT ecosystem.

· Support the process to define, embed and scale Software Engineering and Platform, including governance, processes, etc.

· Drive new ways of working to engage our engineering team (e.g leading hackathons).

· Ensure good operational support processes for key engineering products supported by the team including dashboards, security products, web products.

Leadership

· Provide strategic leadership for the team, leading all engineering initiatives related to platforms and act as a respected contact with the wider business on all aspects of the role.

· Be responsible for leading a team of platform engineers, delegating tasks and responsibilities, and providing guidance and mentorship. This includes coaching the team on engineering best practices.

· Work closely with teams and collaborate with other management personnel.

· Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Platform Engineering to continually increase skills and competency of our internal team members.

· Partner with leadership to help inform roadmap direction to continually increase platform engineering efficiency

· Act as a subject matter expert in Platform Engineering providing strong technical coaching to team members and ensuring we are building broad engineering skills across Elanco.

Stakeholder Engagement

· Influence application modernisation including languages and frameworks utilised across custom built applications to ensure our applications remain modern, efficient, and well supported.

· Identify opportunities to minimise operational effort required to run SaaS, COTs applications, partner with teams to further challenge vendor partners in the capabilities provided.

· Work with process roles across solution ops to ensure standards and governance are well understood and consumable by both vendors, application teams and product managers.

· Partner on initiatives 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 a strong partnership with Information Security, working with our application reliability engineering to identify opportunities and mitigate risks in our application estate.

Community

· Proactively engage with the IT community (internally and externally) across multiple channels, looking to share, represent, educate and inspire.

· Evangelise Elanco’s technical products, helping upskill other areas of the business on how to utilise our web technologies appropriately.

· Serve as a coach for IT Analysts/Engineers to advance individuals’ technical acumen.

· Actively build and stay abreast of emerging technology directions (specifically application architecture), guiding IT and the Business on how to interpret and best leverage emerging technologies.

Innovation

· Partner to drive a DevSecOps culture across the organisation.

· Identify everyday opportunities to drive more efficiency through the identification of repeatable process using of automation techniques.

· 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:

· Technical coach or management experience essential

· Previous hands-on development experience preferred including;

o Experience working with/ modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)

o Experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud

o Experience working within a “DevSecOps” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc.

· 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.

· Team Leadership within a consultancy organization, managing clients and overseeing project delivery.

· Infrastructure experience or appreciation desirable

Education Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology.

Other Information: Occasional travel may be required.
 

Location:

· Position will be located at Elanco IAC, Bangalore

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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