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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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