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Lead Engineer - Platform Engineering

Elanco · Hook, ENG, United Kingdom
Hook, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Hook, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Improve developer experience by designing, building, and operating reusable platform capabilities and Golden Paths that help teams deliver software and data products. Independently develop AI-assisted engineering capabilities across the software development lifecycle, including secure integrations, controlled workflows, evaluation, and human approval within tools such as IDEs, CI/CD, source control, and engineering portals. Apply security and governance controls, measure engineering outcomes, and enable consistent adoption through reusable patterns and documentation.

Qualifications

  • Experience on a platform team focused on developer experience.
  • Hands-on engineering and DevOps experience, including Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
  • Experience applying AI to the software development lifecycle.
  • Experience with authentication and authorization protocols and patterns.
  • Experience leading engineering teams through change.
  • Ability to influence and communicate with stakeholders across IT and third parties.
  • Experience working across complex business, technology, regulatory, partner, provider, or geographic environments.
  • Strong organizational and communication skills, including explaining complex technical topics to support clear decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Build reusable AI platform components, including secure model and tool integrations, context-retrieval tools, controlled agent workflows, evaluation harnesses, and human-approval controls.
  • Own platform capabilities from design and prototyping through coding, integration, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
  • Implement least-privilege AI access, authentication, and data-protection controls; mitigate risks such as prompt injection and sensitive-data exposure.
  • Create implementation patterns, playbooks, documentation, and reference solutions to support consistent adoption.
  • Define metrics and run controlled experiments to assess engineering flow, quality, risk, and economic value.

Skills

AnsibleGoMakeTerraform

Travel

0–10%

Industry

Animal health

Relocation

No