Principal Engineer – Software Engineering

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!

Location: UK, Hook (Hybrid type of work)

Team: Software Engineering and Platforms

Supervisor: Software Engineering Director

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 software 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 and collaborate with the internal engineering organisation to improve engineering across the enterprise.

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.
• Partner with the Product Owner 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 leading role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.

Product Team

• You will play a technical leadership role across the R&D product space this includes partnering with product and architects to contribute to the product direction.
• You will be responsible for driving synergies across engineering teams ensuring we drive engineering consistency, standardisation and quality.
• You will join a product under the research and development function, highly dynamic area full of exciting opportunities.
• You will fulfil a software engineering role helping to both build and run a new Pharmacovigilance (PV) product.
• You will be working with both front-end technologies and back-end technologies and integration with 3rd party SaaS solutions.
• Lead engineering efforts on the PV product partnering with internal and external resource to deliver a high-quality Engineering product.
• Working with existing event reporting solutions and custom engineered solutions to ensure there is a strong user experience for users of the tools and continued iteration to improve speed, accuracy, and compliance.
• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with the engineers in software and data engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.
• Upskill and coach engineers on the product to build a highly competent engineering unit.
• Partner with Platform Engineering to highlight opportunities to increase efficiency of software engineers and boost their focus on customer outcomes.

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 product management and digital product delivery utilising modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a ‘show them, don’t tell them’ culture.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in some of the following areas essential.
  • 8 years of technical leadership experience.
  • 10-15 years of engineering experience.
  • 5-10 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.

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