Solution Architect

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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, focusing on new features and technical debt reduction.

• Design implementation paths for custom and Line of Business applications (Software-as-a-Service and Commercial-off-the-Shelf), covering commodity/highly industrialized business processes.

• Influence cross-product and product groups by partnering with Architects across the enterprise to ensure alignment with the holistic vision.

• Partner closely with Product Management and Principal Engineers to support taking an architectural design to a ‘ready to build’ state.

• Apply external technology trends (AI, cloud-native) to business problems, influencing product teams to help drive future technology strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Support Product Managers in business discussions, articulating how technology visions and roadmaps support business outcomes.

• Build relationships with business stakeholders to understand their needs and influence necessary changes and technology investments.

• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors) and internal engineers to ensure technical competency and architecture alignment.

• Bring external insights and the art of the possible to leadership across the function.

Architecture Team

• Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities for technology rationalization and reuse.

• Deliver on key central architecture initiatives that support growth and impact across Elanco.

• Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements.

• Contribute to architecture standards and patterns for product teams.

• Identify and support initiatives to address technical debt and improve portfolio health.

• Enable discovery to validate business and technology directions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in Information Systems/Computer Science.

• 5+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems.

• Experience in large technology selection processes and leading technical decisions.

• Hands-on IT engineering background with diverse architecture experience.

• Understanding of data architecture principles.

• Experience with modern application architecture methodologies (SOA, API-Centric, Twelve-Factor, FAIR, etc.)

• Experience with Cloud Native design patterns, especially Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.

• Knowledge of modern software development practices (CI/CD, TDD, etc.).

• Experience with SaaS interface implementation and digital platform support.

• Experience scaling API ecosystems and designing API-First patterns.

• Strong communication and organizational skills.

• Leadership qualities and proactive communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with pharmaceutical IT systems and processes (ELN, LIMS, CDS, LES, etc.).

• Familiarity with infrastructure considerations in cloud and on-premise environments.

• Experience in regulated industries such as life sciences.

• Solution architecture certifications for Azure or Google Cloud.

• Experience delivering architecture in a product operating model.

Additional Information:

• Travel: Occasional travel may be required.

• Location: Hook, UK. Hybrid work environment.

Don’t meet every requirement? We encourage diverse applicants. If you think you might be a good fit, apply anyway!

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