Elanco · 2 hours ago
Solution Architect
Indianapolis, IN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expElanco is a global leader in animal health, dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services for farm animals and pets. As a Solution Architect, you will provide technical thought leadership, influence technology investments, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles while collaborating with product teams to drive business outcomes.
ManufacturingPetSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
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
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 for leadership across the function
Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities to rationalize or combine technologies that cut across functions looking for both efficiency and reuse opportunities
Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions delivered meet enterprise requirements
Identify opportunities to directly contribute to architecture standards and patterns that product teams can use to implement solutions
Contribute to the identification and rationalization of technical debt looking to recommend and support portfolio health initiatives across functions and enterprise
Enable the discovery capability to help validate business and technology direction
Qualification
Required
DevSecOps culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc
Education: B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science
Required Experience: 5+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems
Experience in large technology selection processes able to lead technical decision making
Strong technical background ideally from a hands-on IT engineering background, with array of different experiences in Architecture space
Appreciation of data architecture principles
Experience working with: Modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)
Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud
Experience with interface implementation between SaaS providers (leveraging Integration-as-a-service frameworks)
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
Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction
Strong leadership and proactive communication skills with a strong bias for action and ability to advise others
Preferred
Familiarity with infrastructure considerations (networking, hosting, security, etc.) in enabling on-premise and cloud IT solutions
Experience working in a regulated industry such as life sciences or equivalent
Solution architecture certifications for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
Experience working in a product operating model delivering architecture capability across product
Benefits
Multiple relocation packages
Two weeklong shutdowns (mid-summer and year-end) in the US (in addition to PTO)
8-week parental leave
9 Employee Resource Groups
Annual bonus offering
Flexible work arrangements
Up to 6% 401K matching
Company
Elanco
Elanco is an animal health company that manufactures and markets a diverse range of products to promote animal health and well-being.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$252.86MKey Investors
AncoraBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2023-12-30Post Ipo Equity· $250M
2018-09-19IPO
2017-05-24Grant· $2.86M
Leadership Team
Dave Kinard
Executive Vice President Human Resources, Corporate Affairs & Administration
Jennifer Black
Senior Director, Global Indirect Procurement
Recent News
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