Lead Engineer – R&D Pipeline

** 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.*
* ** At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.*
* ** Your role:
** Lead Engineer – R&D Pipeline 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.  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.

** Your Responsibilities:*
* * 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 across engineering teams to bring alignment to the R&D application space.
* 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 Managers 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 role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.
** What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):*
* * 5 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies
* 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 “Dev Sec Ops ” 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.
* Experience in a Platform Engineering team beneficial.
* Operational experience having supported and iterated on custom built applications
* Proficiency in Type Script/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.
* Experience with Python or other similar languages.
* Understanding of data systems e.g. Data Bricks, Power

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* Passion for simplicity and great Developer Experience.
* Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.
* Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release…