Solution Architect

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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.

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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.

Supporting product groups and associated products Lead the “build vs. buy vs. extend” analysis, objectively evaluating if a business need is best met within the ERPSAP 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 not only on new features but technical debt reduction. You will help 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 the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) or external microservices to reduce technical debt.

Composable Architecture:
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. Ready to Build:
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 ensuring the technology ecosystem supports the needs of the product teams.

Partner with Product Management and Engineering Product Teams in pre‑discovery activities helping to understand potential technical direction informing the hiring of key technical roles. Stakeholder Engagement Partner with product leadership to engage senior business stakeholders helping map technical decisions to business value. Vendor Neutrality:
Manage relationships with service integrators and vendors, ensuring their proposals align with Elanco’s architectural standards rather than vendor‑specific lock‑in. Help ensure privacy and security by design, ensuring solutions meet global compliance standards, particularly for sensitive HR, Finance and Legal data. Architecture Team Cross‑Platform Rationalization:
Identify opportunities to consolidate technologies that span SAP and…