**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:** Solution Architect**Your Responsibilities:** * Partner with business, Product Management, and enterprise/solution architects to recommend opportunities to rationalise or combine technologies that cut across functions looking for both efficiency and reuse opportunities.* Support solution architecture review groups to ensure solutions delivered meet enterprise requirements.* Identify opportunities to directly contribute to architecture standards and patterns that product teams can use to implement solutions.* Contribute to the identification and rationalisation of technical debt looking to recommend and support portfolio health initiatives across functions and enterprise.* Enable the discovery capability to help validate business and technology direction.**What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):** * B.S. in Information Systems/Computer Science.* 5+ years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise IT systems.* Experience in large technology selection processes able to lead technical decision making.* Strong technical background ideally from a hands-on IT engineering background, with array of different experiences in Architecture space.* Appreciation of data architecture principles.* Experience working with: + Modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.) + Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud “*DevSecOps*” culture, including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), etc. + Experience with interface implementation between SaaS providers (*leveraging Integration-as-a-service frameworks*). + 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.* Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex technical topics, that resulted in a definitive direction.* Strong leadership and proactive communication skills with a strong bias for action and ability to advise others.**What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):** * Solution architecture certifications for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.* Experience working in a product operating model delivering architecture capability across product.- Familiarity with infrastructure considerations (networking, hosting, security, etc.) in enabling on-premise and cloud IT solutions. Experience working in a regulated industry such as life sciences or equivalent.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. #J-18808-Ljbffr