Lead Software Engineer

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Solution Ops Engineer Job Description

Role Title: Lead Software Engineer

Location: IAC

Team: Software Engineering and Platforms

Supervisor: Associate Director – Software Engineering

Career Progression: Engineering, Architecture, Analyst

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 covering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Commercial-of-the-Shelf (CotS) and/or Custom Developed applications. The role is part of our software engineering team established to deliver Engineering expertise to business facing products and services. As an Engineer you will be deployed into a multi-disciplined product team applying your engineering talent to Elanco’s biggest opportunities.

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 the internal engineering organisation to improve engineering across the entire organisation.

Responsibilities:

Engineering

• 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 with Platform Engineering team 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.
• Work against the backlog set out by the Product Owner supported by the Lead Engineer.
• 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.
• Engage with the data teams across Elanco to ensure we leverage data capabilities across the organisation to improve the capabilities of our products.
• Play a leading role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.

Product Team

• Lead engineering efforts on the digital product focus initiative, partnering with internal and external resource to deliver a high-quality Engineering product.
• You will join our Elanco Knowledge Solutions team supporting our critical customer onboarding tool.
• Support engineering efforts on the onboarding product partnering with internal and external resource to deliver a high-quality Engineering product.
• Leverage existing solutions and frameworks from our web platform, content management system to identity tooling to create a first-class experience for our customers.
• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with the Principal Engineer in software engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.
• Upskill and coach engineers on the product to build a highly competent engineering unit.
• Build and run the product managing a mix of customer support and new feature iterations.

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 the 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.
  • 5 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.).
  • 5 + years of experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.
  • 5 + 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.
  • 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. TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, Next.js/React 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.

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