Senior Infrastructure Architect Full Time

At Elanco (NYCE: 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!

Position Description:

Historically, the role of IT has been to provide a reliable foundation to run the business, drive efficiencies and reduce costs. These areas remain integral to support the delivery and growth of information technology solutions.

However, driven by the pace of innovation, IT must evolve, proactively partnering with Business to enable new digital business models and power new types of customer engagement. 

TechOps will support this transformation through the creation and delivery of a progressive global technology ecosystem. This ecosystem will be forward-looking, whilst maintaining appropriate controls to support sensitive business processes (particularly Manufacturing). The architecture must seamlessly integrate and not act as a barrier to innovation, agility, and/or speed to value.

The main activities of the Integration Architect will be to support our Major Programme initiatives covering all areas of Network (including Network Security), Network Services, Data centre and Telephony.  Focussing on Enterprise level projects such as Lifecycle Management, new site stand-up and OT Cyber Security.

The role requires technical breadth and depth, a proven track record of enterprise delivery and the ability to articulate complex technical topics that result in a definitive direction. The role will work primarily with the Programme Directors and Integration Leads, but also work closely with the Lead Infrastructure Architect, the CTO and enterprise architecture community and the TechOps architecture community as well as the Managed Service partners delivering Networking and infrastructure services.

This role does not include people administration; however, mentoring of engineering staff will be necessary, as well as providing domain-specific technical leadership and decision making for the integration activities.

The Company:

Elanco is a global animal health company that develops products and knowledge services to prevent and treat disease in food animals and pets in more than 90 countries. With a 65-year heritage, we rigorously innovate to improve the health of animals and benefit our customers, while fostering an inclusive, cause-driven culture for more than 10,000 employees. At Elanco, we’re driven by our vision of food and companionship enriching life – all to advance the health of animals, people and the planet. Learn more at www.elanco.com.

Responsibilities:

Architecture Leadership

• Define, embed and maintain compliance to the global network strategy, including a clear execution plan for the integration.
• Partner with the Lead Infrastructure Architect to ensure delivery, documentation and quality & compliance adherence.
• Identify opportunities to optimize and modernize the network architecture, driving cost efficiencies.

Technical Leadership

• Provide network architecture technical leadership and decision making for the Integration team
• Establish strong partnerships across the architecture community and Information Security, helping to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Where required, deep dive key initiatives to help overcome major incidents, complex problems and/or realise opportunities.
• Help to embed security, privacy, data protection and quality assurance across IT.

External Engagement & Delivery

• Engage with our MSPs to understand the landscape, topology and architecture.
• Responsible for any planning, build and delivery, and transition of the Integration initiatives.
• Engage in the community (internally and externally) across multiple channels, looking to share, educate and inspire.

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in technology project leadership, managing and advancing complex, global environments.
• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise technology solutions.
• 10+ years of experience across telecommunications and networking, including LAN, WLAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP, NAC, and DIA.
• 5+ years of experience working with Palo Alto Network Firewall infrastructure
• Good working knowledge of hybrid multi-cloud architecture (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, VMWare etc.)
• Good working knowledge of modern architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.)
• Experience defining and executing large-scale, transformative strategic plans.
• Demonstrated influence and communication skills across all levels of IT and third-parties.
• Demonstrated strength in facilitation skills.
• Strong organizational and communications skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex ideas in a manner that resulted in a definitive direction and result.

Education Requirements:

Required: Bachelor’s Degree.

Desired: Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE or equivalent.

Other Information:

Overseas travel may be required.

Working across time zones to support the global business.

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

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