Senior Engineer / Platform Engineer

Elanco; Hook; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in animal health as a Software Engineer, where you'll develop scalable solutions and collaborate across teams to enhance digital products. This role requires a strong background in modern application architecture and cloud technologies, fostering innovation in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with modern application architecture.
• Experience with Cloud Native design patterns, preferably Azure/Google Cloud.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Develop full-stack solutions for positive user experiences.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams for product shaping.
• Embed security and quality assurance across digital solutions.

Skills

Cloud Native design patterns

DevSecOps

TypeScript

JavaScript

React

Node.js

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

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!

Historically, 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.

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 organisation to improve engineering across the enterprise.

Your 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 across Platform Engineering teams 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 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.

Product Team

• You will join our 'core function' building platforms that continue to advance developer experience across our enterprise, a highly dynamic area full of exciting opportunities.

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

• Supporting and driving a number of capabilities that support our development processes this includes configuration of SaaS capabilities as well as building and supporting custom built solutions.

• You will contribute and shape our Horizon software developer patterns leveraging infrastructure as code and providing opinionated view that gets developers across the enterprise started faster.

• Shape engineering expectations against the product partnering with your tech lead or Principal Engineers in software engineering to ensure the product adopts Elanco standards.

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

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.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.
  

• Experience in some of the following areas essential:

• 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.

• Familiarity or experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).

• 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.

• 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.

Additional Information:

• Travel:Occasional travel may be required.

• Location: Hook, UK - Hybrid Work Environment

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