Solution Architect

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

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.

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.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

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 set up for success. This role requires technical breadth and depth in application architecture, software engineering, and SaaS solutions, and 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.

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.

• 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 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, 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.
• Support the integration of custom and SaaS‑based applications considering build vs buy and driving a composable landscape between solutions.

• 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 to meet business outcomes.
• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), and internal Elanco Engineers…