Principal Software Engineer (Project Management)

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. We're driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life' and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

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!

Your Role:

At Elanco, 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 organization to improve engineering across the enterprise.

This role is targeted to the Digital Product modernization program for Elanco Knowledge Solutions (EKS), which offers digital services to define and meet a wide range of customer needs, from production and distribution to safety and regulation.

At its core EKS is focused on helping uncover promising opportunities through analysis of data and processes.  This is accomplished through collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to help customers make sound operational decisions. The information EKS delivers enables farmers, producers, processors, veterinarians, nutritionists, and others to improve animal health outcomes, production efficiency and economic performance.

Your Responsibilities:

Engineering

• Join a diverse engineering organization 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 with Platform Engineering team to provide input to shaping their products allowing software engineers to deliver business value faster than ever before.

• 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 Manager to establish a working backlog including assisting in sizing of items and helping design engineering approaches to meet application of feature requirements.

• Play a role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organization.

Product Team

• You will play a technical leadership role within the Elanco Knowledge Services product space this includes partnering with product and architects to contribute to the product direction.

• You will be responsible for driving synergies across engineering teams ensuring we drive engineering consistency, standardization and quality.

• You will work on Digital products that form part of an Application Modernization Agenda for EKS

• You will work both Consultative and Hands on within this software engineering role helping to both build and run a new suite of Modernized Products for EKS.

• You will be working with both front-end technologies and back-end technologies and integration with 3rd party SaaS solutions.

• Working with existing custom engineered solutions to ensure there is a strong user experience for users of the tools and continued iteration to improve speed, accuracy, and compliance.

• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with the engineers in software and data engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.

• Upskill and coach engineers on the product to build a highly competent engineering unit.

• Partner with Platform Engineering to highlight opportunities to increase efficiency of software engineers and boost their focus on customer outcomes.

Innovation

• Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using hackathon and other formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT.

• Use modern product approaches to influence and shape the business through partnership with product management and digital product delivery utilizing modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a ‘show them, don't tell them' culture.

What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Experience in some of the following areas essential.

  • 8 years of technical leadership experience.

  • 10-15 years of engineering experience.

  • 5-10 years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.).

  • 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 “DevSecOps” 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.

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.

• Other Information: Occasional travel may be required.

What Would Give You the Competitive Edge

• Proven track record of “hands-on” software engineering (e.g. Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies (e.g. TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, Next.js/React etc.).

• Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.

• Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.

• Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols/patterns.

• Experience defining and implementing large-scale, transformative digital solutions.

• Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third parties.

• Experience working in complex, diverse landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.).

• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.

Additional Information:

• Location: Indianapolis, Indiana at Elanco's Global headquarters (Hybrid environment)

• Travel - 0-10%

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status