Elanco · 13 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
Indianapolis, IN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expElanco is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in animals. The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for executing the data strategy, ensuring stable data pipelines, and coaching junior engineers while partnering with product managers to develop solutions to prioritized problems.
ManufacturingPetSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Partner with your Product Manager to lead squads through sprints, engage in product discovery, enhance engineering designs, and develop compelling solutions to prioritized problem statements
Leverage modern product approaches to influence and shape the business, e.g. discovery, rapid prototyping, and embedding a culture of working out loud
Advocate for, and educate colleagues and stakeholders on, our Enterprise Data Engineering capabilities to ensure their value and potential is well understood
Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control
Support and execute quality change management practices, ensuring a high bar for quality
Drive Elanco’s data standards, leveraging standard languages and frameworks across the enterprise, continually reviewing them to ensure a balance of effectiveness and pragmatism
Partner with core engineering groups to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon
Act as an escalation point of contact to diagnose and problem solve data engineering challenges
Look for opportunities to modernize our data landscape, maximizing investments and driving more reliable outcomes
Contribute to the Data Engineering community across Elanco to inspire, engage, and ignite innovation
Embrace and demonstrate a learning, growth, and sharing mindset
Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
6+ years of experience engineering and delivering enterprise scale data solutions, with examples in the cloud (especially Databricks, Azure, and GCP) strongly preferred
2+ years in roles requiring technical leadership and/or coaching and development of colleagues
Preferred
Proven ability to lead and deliver complex data projects
Expertise in data pipelines, integration and analytics practices and capabilities
Experience working with modern data architectures, engineering methodologies, and platforms (Databricks, lakehouse, scalable data pipelines, APIs, data contracts, SQL/NoSQL, FAIR data principles, etc.)
Familiarity with machine learning workflows, data quality, and data governance
Experience working in complex and diverse global landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.)
Experience as a coach and/or mentor in developing technical skills
Good interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to work effectively within a team
Familiarity with infrastructure automation techniques and technologies such as Terraform and Ansible
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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Trends of Total Sponsorships
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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