Solution Architect

Overview

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals! At Elanco, we are a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

We foster a diverse and inclusive work environment and value new ways of thinking, collaboration with dynamic individuals, and opportunities to acquire new skills and experiences that propel your career. Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your role: Solution Architect

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. As a Solution Architect, you will provide technical thought leadership and contribute to the business vision. You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence technology investments and product roadmaps.

You will participate in discovery and pre-discovery to help ensure our product teams are setup for success. This role requires technical breadth and depth in application architecture, software engineering, and SaaS solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery. In this role, you will support key product groups and products across our enterprise, partnering 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.

Your Responsibilities:

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 product groups and associated products

• 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.
• 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.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Principal Engineers to support taking an architectural design to a ‘ready to build’ state.
• Apply external technology trends (e.g. AI, cloud-native) to business problems applying where there is value influencing product teams to help drive future technology strategies.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering in pre discovery activities helping to understand potential technical direction informing the hiring of key technical roles.
• Supporting the integration of custom and SaaS based applications considering build vs buy and driving a composable landscape between solutions.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support Product Managers in business discussions helping to clearly articulate how technology visions and roadmaps support business outcomes.
• Build relationships with business stakeholders to better understand their needs and influence necessary changes and technology investments to meet business outcomes.
• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), and internal Elanco Engineers helping to ensure technical competency and architecture alignment.
• Externally connected bringing the outside in and art of the possible…