Lead Engineer R&D Pipeline

Elanco; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in animal health is seeking a Lead Engineer to join their R&D Pipeline team in Hook, UK. This hybrid role involves developing modern digital solutions and collaborating with diverse teams to enhance application performance. Candidates must have over 5 years of experience with application architecture and cloud-native designs. The ideal individual will be innovative, possess a developer-oriented approach, and have strong communication skills to convey complex topics effectively.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in modern application architecture.
• Experience with Cloud Native design patterns, especially in Azure/Google Cloud.
• Strong skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable solutions while maintaining product quality.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate new features.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities in existing applications.

Skills

Modern application architecture methodologies

Cloud Native design patterns

DevSecOps culture

TypeScript/JavaScript

API-Ecosystem

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Kubernetes

DataBricks

PowerBI

Job description

**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.** **Your role:** Lead Engineer – R&D PipelineHistorically, the role of IT has been to provide a reliable ecosystem to run the business, drive efficiencies and reduce costs. These areas remain integral, however, driven by the quickening pace of innovation, IT must evolve, proactively partnering with the business to enable new digital business models that power new types of customer engagement. 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 organisation to improve engineering across the enterprise. **Your Responsibilities:** * 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 across engineering teams to bring alignment to the R&D application space.* 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 Managers 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 role in our Engineering community helping to share good practice, collaborate and problem solve with Engineers across the organisation.**What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):** * 5 + years of experience working with modern application architecture methodologies* 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.* Experience in a Platform Engineering team beneficial.* Operational experience having supported and iterated on custom built applications* Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js.* Experience with Python or other similar languages.* Understanding of data systems e.g. DataBricks, PowerBI.* Passion for simplicity and great Developer Experience.* Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem”, designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.* Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.* Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.* 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: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology.Familiarity or experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform). Location: Hook, UK - Hybrid Work Environment *If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!*Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN) is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovating and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets, creating value for farmers, pet owners, veterinarians, stakeholders, and society as a whole. With nearly 70 years of animal health heritage, we are committed to helping our customers improve the health of animals in their care, while also making a meaningful impact on our local and global communities. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching life and our Elanco Healthy Purpose CSR framework – all to advance the health of animals, people and the planet. Learn more at .