Strategic Solution Architect

Job Title: Strategic Solution Architect

About the Job

Are you ready to push the boundaries of what’s possible? At Sanofi, we are committed to providing next-generation healthcare solutions that patients and customers need. By harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly, we aim to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital Architecture Center of Excellence team and play a key role in shaping and driving architecture on a global enterprise level to support Sanofi’s Digital transformation. As a Strategic Solution Architect, you will be a visionary leader responsible for designing and governing enterprise-wide architecture solutions that span across all business domains. You will focus on transversal topics to ensure strategic alignment, reusability, and consistency across the organization, making a significant impact on the entire enterprise architecture landscape to support Sanofi's Digital strategy.

At Sanofi, we have one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve lives. We are a place where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to stretch the limits of what’s possible.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?​

Main Responsibilities:

• Design internal transversal platforms utilized across all business verticals, collaborating with business, technology, and product stakeholders to tailor architecture designs that meet diverse needs.

• Define Digital technology standards applicable across the entire organization, identifying constraints and decision drivers for technology services selection.

• Establish, publish, and communicate reference architectures, and design patterns that promote consistency and efficiency across the enterprise.

• Conduct pilot designs and implementations for high-value business cases, defining metrics, creating technical architectures, and leveraging standard CI/CD pipelines.

• Incorporate regulatory requirements (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX) and cybersecurity requirements into architecture designs, ensuring compliance with all applicable standards.

• Stay update to date on industry practices and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on Sanofi's systems landscape and recommending solutions that could improve operations or competitiveness.

About You

Experience:

• Proven track record in architecture with extensive experience designing and implementing complex technology solutions across multiple lines of business

• Experience guiding and facilitating engineering teams through implementations from concept to delivery

• Diverse exposure to various platforms, frameworks, programming languages, and technologies

• Strong background in modern software delivery approaches

• Business domain knowledge relevant to the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry is a plus

Soft and technical skills:

• Strong facilitation abilities for leading design sessions and whiteboarding with stakeholders

• Skilled at balancing long-term strategic objectives with practical implementation needs

• Design thinking approach to problem-solving with focus on user needs

• Deep expertise across multiple technology domains including security, cloud architecture, software architecture, integration patterns, and data management

• Hands-on engineering experience beyond creating static diagrams - ability to prototype and validate solutions

• Proficiency with cloud platforms (Azure and AWS) and cloud-native architectures

• Understanding of regulatory frameworks relevant to pharmaceutical industry (GxP, SOX, data privacy)

• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and documentation approaches

Education:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Languages:

• Fluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.