Principal Data Engineer (R&D)

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!

Your Role:

We are looking for 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, collaborate with internal and external partners and ensure quality delivery of the required data products. This role will focus on our R & D function, playing a key role in our implementation of data capabilities to support Elanco’s innovation.
 

Your Responsibilities: 
•    Articulate our technical direction and upskill colleagues (both internal and external) in leveraging our Enterprise Data Platforms to deliver data products and ensure value is well understood.
•    Provide feedback to our Data Platform Engineering Team to improve their services.
•    Drive opportunities from the Data Engineering backlog and provide technical leadership in design and execution of those solutions.=
•    Partner with core engineering group to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon.
•    Act as an escalation point of contact to diagnose and problem solve across different data products.
•    Look for opportunities to modernize specific aspects of our data landscape, helping Elanco to maximize investments and drive more reliable outcomes.
•    Partner with the R & D Data Architect to understand their data strategy and lead its implementation.
•    Establish clear ways of working, partnering with Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure reliable and consistent delivery – speaking up when improvements are necessary.
•    Drive strong technical standards, technical processes, governance and control.
•    Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT.
•    Participate in the Data Engineering community across Elanco to inspire, engage and ignite innovation.
 

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications): 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 
• Required Experience: 15+years of experience engineering and delivering enterprise scale data solutions, with examples in the cloud (especially Azure, GCP) strongly preferred. 8+ years in roles requiring technical leadership and/or coaching and development of colleagues.
• Proven track record in leading and delivering on complex data projects.
• First class critical thinking skills, reducing the load on architects.
• Expertise in data management, information integration and analytics practices and capabilities.
   

What will give you the competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Life science / R & D background strongly preferred.
• Experience leveraging Data Contracts through data ingestion and data processing pipelines.
• Experience working with modern data architecture and engineering methodologies (Domain driven data architecture, Scalable data pipelines, DataOps (CI/CD), API-Centric Design, SQL/NoSQL, FAIR data principles, etc.) 
• Exposure with developing data pipelines and data products using Azure capabilities such as storage, search, catalog, API management, and data processing & analytics services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Synapse Analytics and PowerBI.
• Proven track record as a coach and/or mentor in developing technical skills. 
• Good interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to work effectively within a team. 
• Awareness of Infrastructure automation and application techniques and technologies

Additional Information:

• Location: Global Elanco Headquarters - Greenfield, IN - Hybrid Work Environment
• Minimal travel.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive 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 Benefits and Perks:

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package focusing on financial, physical, and mental well-being while encouraging our employees to pursue our purpose! Some highlights include:
• Multiple relocation packages
• Two weeklong shutdowns (mid-summer and year-end) in the US (in addition to PTO)
• 8-week parental leave
• 9 Employee Resource Groups
• Annual bonus offering
• Flexible work arrangements
• Up to 6% 401K matching

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