Databricks Platform Architect

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As the Databricks Platform Architect, you will provide thought leadership and contribute to the business vision as Elanco becomes a more data-driven organization using Databricks. You will have the autonomy to make key design decisions and influence investments and product roadmaps. In addition to strong technical skills and experience of the Databricks platform, this role requires technical breadth and depth in data architecture, engineering, AI, and integrating solutions, as well as a proven track record of enterprise delivery.

In this role, you will support key product groups and product teams across our enterprise, partnering with Product Managers, Product Designers, Solution Architects and Principal Engineers to ensure the holistic direction of a product team is enabled by appropriate Databricks capabilities and investments. The role will be a part of the Data Engineering organization which is responsible for transforming Elanco into a data-driven company through a dedicated focus on data architecture, engineering, analytics, and AI.

In this role, you will also partner closely with enterprise data and AI architects and peers to identify and implement global capabilities and deliver data solutions in alignment with Elanco’s enterprise reference architecture and engineering framework. This position reports to the Senior Director IT – IT Engineering – Data & SaaS/Cloud.

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

• Define and maintain a holistic view of Elanco’s Databricks footprint and drive the adoption of key features and capabilities by identifying use cases across Elanco product teams and creating target reference architectures.

• Contribute to the technical strategic vision, integrated data strategy, and roadmap within a product group or series of related products ensuring the Databricks platform supports the needs of the product teams appropriately.

• Design scalable capabilities that will ingest, transform, and distribute numerous data streams and batches in support of key initiatives.

• Influence cross product and product groups partnering with architects across the enterprise to ensure alignment with our holistic vision of the Databricks platform.

• Prototype, test and learn, and plan the design and integration of capabilities to enable various business processes and data assets, delivering high value outcomes.

• Identify, design, and implement process improvements opportunity by automating manual processes and optimizing data delivery.

• Translate emerging and experimental concepts into production-ready architectural patterns.

• Support Product Managers in business discussions helping to clearly articulate how Databricks can support business…