Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect, you will be the primary architectural authority for our Company Tower (Corporate G&A) and act as a critical bridge between our Enterprise ERP ecosystem (SAP) and Modern Engineering platforms. You will cover end-to-end value chains for HR, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Gross‑to‑Net (G2N), while providing technical thought leadership to ensure a neutral fit‑approach across custom cloud‑native builds, SAP BTP extensions, AI‑driven automation, and best‑of‑breed SaaS.

• Lead the "build vs. buy vs. extend" analysis, objectively evaluating if a business need is best met within the ERP SAP ecosystem, through custom engineering (GCP/Azure), or via third‑party SaaS.
• Support the holistic Company domain architectural blueprint owning key architecture assets including the city map and reference architecture to influence the right investments across a product group (HR, Finance, Legal, etc.) with a focus on new features and technical debt reduction.
• Advise on the design of scalable AI & automation patterns for integrating Generative AI and LLMs into corporate workflows while maintaining strict data privacy, controls, SOX and compliance.
• Where integrating with ERP, partner with ERP domain architects and technical service owners to own the architecture assets that ensure the ERP remains standard, moving custom logic to SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) or external microservices to reduce technical debt.
• Design implementation paths that treat the ERP as a set of services, driving a composable landscape where SAP and Non‑SAP components communicate via standard APIs and events.
• Partner with Principal Engineers to take high‑level designs to a "ready to build" state, ensuring developers have clear "paved roads" for both SAP‑centric and cloud‑native projects.
• Contribute to the technical strategic vision and roadmap within a product group or series of related products to ensure the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering Product Teams in pre‑discovery activities helping understand potential technical direction informing the hiring of key technical roles.

• Partner with product leadership to engage senior business stakeholders helping map technical decisions to business value.
• Manage relationships with service integrators and vendors, ensuring proposals align with Elanco’s architectural standards rather than vendor‑specific lock‑in.
• Ensure privacy and security by design, ensuring solutions meet global compliance standards, particularly for sensitive HR, Finance and Legal data.

• Identify opportunities to consolidate technologies that span SAP and Non‑SAP functions to drive efficiency and reuse.
• Incorporate cloud cost management into architectural designs to ensure long‑term financial sustainability of digital products.
• Act as a mentor to junior and mid‑level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and architectural excellence.
• Contribute to enterprise standards for Event‑Driven Architecture (EDA) and API Management, ensuring seamless data flow between the ERP and the wider digital estate.
• Recommend opportunities to rationalise or combine technologies that cut across functions for efficiency and reuse.
• Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions delivered meet enterprise requirements.
• Identify opportunities to directly contribute to architecture standards and patterns that product teams can use to implement solutions.
• Contribute to the identification and rationalisation of technical debt looking to recommend and support portfolio health initiatives across functions and enterprise.
• Translate enterprise architecture to engineering practices including supporting the engineering experience direction with better standardisation.

• B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science.
• 7+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems.
• Experience in large technology selection processes able to lead technical decision making.
• Strong technical background ideally from a hands‑on IT engineering background, with experience in…