Manufacturing Solution Architect

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Elanco IT is evolving to meet the quickening pace of innovation, proactively partnering to create new value through innovative digital products, services, and insights for both internal business partners and external customers.

Our Manufacturing organization has an aggressive vision to implement a digital-first approach to modernizing Elanco pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. As a Manufacturing Solution Architect, you will champion the adoption of modern manufacturing IT paradigms including EDGE computing, IT/OT convergence, and Unified Namespace (UNS) strategies to enable real-time data orchestration and smart factory capabilities. You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence technology investments and product roadmaps.

This role requires technical breadth and depth in application architecture, software engineering, and manufacturing SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.

Your role:

In this role, you will partner with Product Managers, Product Designers, and Principal Engineers to ensure the holistic direction of a product is enabled by enterprise technology investments. Additionally, solution architects are critical in ensuring that technology solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.

To be successful, you should be a highly motivated individual with an innovative and strategic mindset, a bias for action, proactive communication skills, and the ability to form and communicate a strong perspective. You must be able to articulate and translate complex technical topics to stakeholders, help lift the technical competency of teams, collaborate with internal/external partners, ensure alignment with architectural principles and standards, and drive tangible business outcomes.

• Supporting manufacturing and associated products

• Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap within the manufacturing product group or series of related products ensuring the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.

• Own key architecture assets including the city map and reference architecture to influence the right investments across a product group with a focus not only on new features but technical debt reduction.

• Design implementation paths for custom and Line of Business applications (Software-as-a-Service and Commercial-of-the-Shelf), covering commodity/highly industrialised business processes.

• Incorporate distributed computing models, including EDGE and fog computing, to support latency-sensitive manufacturing operations.

• Architect solutions that bridge OT systems (e.g., PLCs, SCADA) with IT platforms using UNS and MQTT-based messaging frameworks.

• Influence cross product and product groups partnering with Architects across the enterprise to ensure alignment with the holistic vision.

• Partner closely with Product Management and Principal Engineers to support taking an architectural design to a ‘ready to build’ state.

• Apply emerging technologies such as AI, Cloud native, IIoT, event-driven architectures, and digital twins to optimize manufacturing workflows, predictive maintenance, and real-time analytics.

• Support Product Managers in business discussions helping to clearly articulate how technology visions and roadmaps…