Principal Engineer – Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

Engineering

Join a diverse engineering organisation 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 Owner to establish a working backlog including assisting in sizing of items and helping design engineering approaches to meet application of feature requirements. Opportunity to participate in rotations to other functions or teams within Engineering to broaden your skillsets. Play a leading role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.

Product Team

You will play a technical leadership role across the R&D 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, standardisation and quality. You will join a product under the research and development function, highly dynamic area full of exciting opportunities. You will fulfil a software engineering role helping to both build and run a new Pharmacovigilance (PV) product. You will be working with both front-end technologies and back-end technologies and integration with 3rd party SaaS solutions. Lead engineering efforts on the PV product partnering with internal and external resource to deliver a high-quality Engineering product. Working with existing event reporting solutions and 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 utilising modern product approaches such as rapid prototyping and embedding a ‘show them, don’t tell them’ culture.

Basic 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 ( 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. Proven track record of “hands-on” software engineering ( Programming, Scripting, Markup Languages), with a preference towards web technologies ( TypeScript, JavaScript, Node, 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 authorisation 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.

Education Requirements:Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology.

Other Information:Occasional travel may be required.