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. 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.
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: Senior Data Engineer
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.
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
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 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
Elanco may use automated tools, including AI, to support parts of our recruitment process, such as reviewing applications against job‑related criteria and/or transferrable skills. These tools help ensure a consistent, structured evaluation, but they do not make hiring decisions. All decisions involve a human reviewer. For more information on how we handle personal data, please see our Elanco Workforce Privacy Notice.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 6+ years of experience in enterprise data solutions
- 2+ years in technical leadership roles
Elanco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Elanco and has not been reviewed or approved by Elanco.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options are broad, including PTO, flexible leave, and the ability to purchase additional vacation. These provisions are highlighted as supportive of work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision alongside company-paid life, disability, and wellness support. Pet insurance and assistance programs reinforce a comprehensive wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a U.S. 401(k) and, for some employees, access to a defined benefit pension. These programs add meaningful long-term value to total rewards.
Elanco Insights
What We Do
At Elanco, we work to improve the health of animals through innovative products and services for pets and farm animals around the world. As a global animal health company, we provide solutions that empower our customers to advance a vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life. Since 1954, Elanco has committed to empowering veterinarians, farmers, and all those who care for animals with the tools they need to help animals live healthy lives. Healthier animals are the key to making our lives better - This is the fundamental belief uniting all global Elanco employees. That’s why we are committed to the idea that our business can be a unique force for good for all in society. Through our Elanco Healthy Purpose™ framework of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments, we focus on delivering sustainable solutions to advance the well-being of animals, people and the planet. This program also enables our employees around the world to take paid time off to make an impact as a volunteer, offering their time or talent to give back to our customers, causes and communities. #ElancoHealthyPurpose #WeAreElanco
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