Lead Data Engineer

Elanco is a global leader in animal health dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to improve the lives of farm animals and pets. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will orchestrate the flow of data, build pipelines and data products, and coach junior engineers to enhance the organization's data strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Lead data engineering squads in partnership with Product Managers to discover, design, and develop compelling data solutions, leveraging modern product and engineering approaches
• Establish and enforce strong technical standards, governance, and quality change management practices for data pipelines and products, including partnering with core engineering groups on application security
• Promote and educate colleagues and stakeholders on Enterprise Data Engineering capabilities, standards (including FAIR data principles), and patterns to ensure their value is understood and leveraged
• Act as a key technical escalation point for diagnosing complex data engineering challenges and guide the modernization of our data landscape to ensure reliable and scalable outcomes
• Coach and mentor junior engineers, contribute to the Data Engineering community, and foster a culture of learning, innovation, and collaboration across Elanco

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• A minimum of 6 years of experience engineering and delivering enterprise-scale data solutions
• Proven technical leadership and coaching of colleagues
• Strong experience with cloud data platforms (Databricks, Azure, GCP)
• Expertise in designing and implementing modern data architectures such as the lakehouse, scalable data pipelines, APIs, and data contracts
• Deep understanding of and experience with SQL/NoSQL, and FAIR data principles
• Familiarity with machine learning workflows, data quality frameworks, and data governance practices
• Experience working in complex and diverse global landscapes (business, technology, regulatory, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation technologies such as Terraform and Ansible