Lead Data Engineer

Elanco Tiergesundheit AG
Hook
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At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!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: Lead Data Engineer Data Engineering at Elanco delivers products and thought leadership that transform how the organization leverages data. The Data Engineering team is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to bring significant discovery and delivery capabilities to our pharmaceutical research and development-focused Pipeline product tower. This is a hands-on, internally focused role expected to help us execute on and ultimately deliver our data strategy, as well as coach junior engineers. To be successful in an engineering role at Elanco requires a highly motivated individual with an innovative mindset and 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.Reporting to the Director - Data Engineering, the Lead Data Engineer is responsible for unlocking and orchestrating the smooth of data, ensuring stable pipelines and data products, and communicating our capabilities and patterns in easily consumable, compelling ways. This role focuses on speed to value, improving our organization’s access to useful data, and championing continual improvement.Your Responsibilities: * Partner with your Product Manager to lead squads through sprints, engage in product discovery, enhance engineering designs, and develop compelling solutions to prioritized problem statements. Leverage modern product approaches to influence and shape the business, e.g. discovery, rapid prototyping, and embedding a culture of working out loud. Advocate for, and educate colleagues and stakeholders on, our Enterprise Data Engineering capabilities to ensure their value and potential is well understood. Drive strong technical standards, technical processes governance and control. Support and execute quality change management practices, ensuring a high bar for quality. Drive Elanco’s data standards, leveraging standard languages and frameworks across the enterprise, continually reviewing them to ensure a balance of effectiveness and pragmatism. Partner with core engineering groups to ensure application security is appropriately considered, monitored, and acted upon. Act as an escalation point of contact to diagnose and problem solve data engineering challenges. Look for opportunities to modernize our data landscape, maximizing investments and driving more reliable outcomes. Contribute to the Data Engineering community across Elanco to inspire, engage, and ignite innovation. Embrace and demonstrate a learning, growth, and sharing mindset. Look for opportunities to partner internally and externally using formats to engage, learn and achieve great outcomes for Elanco IT. What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications): * Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. 6+ years of experience engineering and delivering enterprise scale data solutions, with examples in the cloud (especially Databricks, Azure, and GCP) strongly preferred.* 2+ years in roles requiring technical leadership and/or coaching and development of colleagues. What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications): * Proven ability to lead and deliver complex data projects.* Expertise in data pipelines, integration and analytics practices and capabilities.* Experience working with modern data architectures, engineering methodologies, and platforms (Databricks, lakehouse, scalable data pipelines, APIs, data contracts, SQL/NoSQL, FAIR data principles, etc.).* 2+ years in roles requiring technical leadership and/or coaching and development of colleagues.* Familiarity with machine learning workflows, data quality, and data governance.* Experience working in complex and diverse global landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, partners, providers, geographies, etc.).* Experience as a coach and/or mentor in developing technical skills.* Good interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to work effectively within a team.* Familiarity with infrastructure automation techniques and technologies such as Terraform and Ansible. Additional Information:* Travel: 0-10%* 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 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 statusAs 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.**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 .
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