Lead Software Engineer

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Elanco Tiergesundheit AG
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Category: IT & Technology
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locations

UK - Hook

time type

Full time

posted on

Posted 2 Days Ago

job requisition id

R0019549

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! Role Title:

Lead

Platform

Engineer – Gen AI Location:

UK - Hook

(Hybrid type of work) Team:

S

oftware Engineering & Platforms Supervisor:

IT

En

gineering

Director Career Progression:

Engineering,

Architect

ure

,

Analyst Position Description: Over the past 4 years Elanco IT has been on an incredibly exciting journey. Separating from our parent company and standing up on our own gave us a once in a lifetime opportunity to build a modern technology stack free of the burden of large-scale technical debt. We are now looking to take this one step further

,

leveraging

newly established engineering capabilities to help Elanco deliver on customer needs faster than ever before. This role is pa

rt of our new enterprise platform engineering team

with a specific focus on generative AI capability and their implementation in Elanco.

This role will

be working on the

cutting edge

of

GenAI

capabilit

y strategizing, build and supporting our own implementations in Elanco.

T

his is an incredibly exciting opportunity to

not onl

y work on

cutting edge

technology

but to contribute to the continued growth of a new highly skilled engineering organisation. To be successful

in an engineering role in Elanco

requires 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 external partners and ensure quality delivery

of the required solution

. Responsibilities: Engineering Work with Principal Platform Engineer

and Senior Product Owner

to

help drive direction of platform and automation capabilities including our internal

technical

products

rel

ated

to

GenAI

capabilities.

Work

with a diverse team

on some of Elanco’s most exciting engineering initiatives

helping drive secure, reliable, and efficient using the latest technology.

Stay abreast of the latest AI research, trends, and technologies, and apply this knowledge to drive continuous improvement and innovation within the team.

Look for continuous improvement opportunities in our core ecosystem

identifying

new ways to enhance application team and developer experience.

Bring your

expertise

into a team of talented engineers and continually help shape where the team can

help to better enable our secure, reliable, efficient vision.

Follow the value mentality with o

pportunity to work across

the engineering team helping to ‘walk in the shoes’ of application teams as well as operational engineering teams.

Communicate progress, results, and insights to management and other stakeholders.

Daily

/

Monthly Responsibilities Build and run responsibilities for

GenAI

ensuring robust support folding into standard incident processes as the products mature.

Help

work with distributed teams across the business on how to consume AI/ML capabilities.

Hands on code, build,

govern

and

maintain

.

Working as part of a scrum team, deliver high quality technical deliverables.

Designing and building solutions to support the automation of manual IT and business

process

es

.

C

ontinually modernise software development processes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) techniques to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.

Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), helping to

support the adoption of automation

capabilities.

Establish a strong partnership with

our application health program and

Information Security, helping to

identify

opportunities and mitigate risks.

Coach and mentor junior engineers, members of our student program to help build a strong connected organisation

.

Supporting application teams, internal and external, helping to resolve barriers related to building,

deployment,

and utilisation of engineering products.

Basic

Qualifications: Must have experience in the following areas.

Proficiency

in programming languages such as Python, TensorFlow,

PyTorch

, and other AI/ML frameworks.

Strong understanding of neural networks, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and other AI domains.

Experience with cloud platforms and AI tools (e.g., Google Cloud, Azure).

Familiarity

with natural language processing or AI technologies (

e.g

LLM

s such as ChatGPT

or BARD

,

Embeddings

, Prompt Engineering

)

Experience with data pipelines and

preferably

processing of document

s

(

e.g

using

Google Cloud Fusion/Azure Data Factory

)

Demonstrated success in deploying AI solutions in real-world applications.

Work closely with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and other stakeholders to integrate AI solutions into existing and new products.

Stay abreast of the latest AI research, trends, and technologies, and apply this knowledge to drive continuous improvement and innovation within the team.

Strong background in either Python/Typescript

Operational experience taking internal products and ensuring they are well

maintained

,

supported,

and iterated upon.

Experience working with technical and non-technical team members

to encourage adoption of new versions of software or products.

Working within a DevOps team including modern software development practices, covering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), SDLC, etc.

Familiarity working within an agile team.

Experience in some of the following

areas:

Experience working with Cloud Native design patterns, with a preference towards Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud.

Hands-on Technical experience with at

least some of our core technologies (Terraform, Ansible, Packer).

Working with cloud cognitive services (

e.g

Azure Cloud Vision or Google

Vision AI

)

Working with

AI/

Embeddings technologies

(

e.g

Google

Matching

Engine

, Azure AI

Studio, Vertex

AI

)

Experience

working in/with

an infrastructure team

advantageous

.

Experience with modern application architecture methodologies (Service Orientated Architecture, API-Centric Design, Twelve-Factor App, FAIR, etc.).

Experience supporting digital platforms, including Integrations, Release Management, Regression Testing, Integrations, Data Obfuscation, etc.

Knowledge

of

Azure Data Factory

/

GCP

Cloud Data Fusion

,

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

or GCP

Cloud ML Engine

,

Azure Data Lake

,

Azure Databricks

or GCP Cloud

Dataproc

.

Experience scaling an “API-Ecosystem

”,

designing, and implementing “API-First” integration patterns.

Experience working with authentication and authorisation protocols/patterns.

Other Information:

Occasional travel may be

required

. 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 Similar Jobs (3)

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