Senior Data and AI Engineer

Sanofi US; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 158,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharma company in Toronto is seeking a Sr Data and AI Engineer to lead the design and implementation of data pipelines and AI workflows. Candidates should have significant experience with Snowflake, Airflow, and Python, as well as strong leadership skills to mentor junior engineers. The role supports the integration of AI into workflows and requires collaboration across teams to ensure high data quality. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing benefits

Career growth opportunities

Competitive rewards package

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in a data team.
• Proven experience with leading data engineering projects.
• Experience and understanding of GenAI and Agentic AI integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of data pipelines and AI workflows.
• Work with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical deliverables.
• Ensure high data quality and observability through testing and monitoring.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

DBT

Python

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

R2829592 Sr Data and AI Engineer

Location

Toronto, Canada (Hybrid)

About the Job

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before.

Join our AI Workflow Engineering team as a Data Engineering Lead and you can help make it happen.

Products you will work on

You will play a key leadership role across our AI Workflow data products, specifically supporting the Source to Pay reimagination for buying and the streamlining of Sanofi knowledge and resolution for service management.

These products aim to:

• Automate and optimize AI-driven workflows across Sanofi, including procurement and support.
• Enable seamless deployment of GenAI and agentic systems through robust, scalable data pipelines and system integrations architectures.

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of data pipelines, datamarts and AI workflows, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance with Sanofi’s standards.
• Work closely with business and product stakeholders within the AI Workflow domain to understand requirements and translate them into technical architectures and deliverables.
• Collaborate with Data Architects and Software Engineers to design, build, and maintain DataMart's, models, and integrations in Snowflake, leveraging DBT, Airflow, and Python for automation and orchestration.
• Define, enforce, and continuously improve DataOps and MLOps practices, including CI/CD with GitHub Actions and infrastructure management using Terraform on AWS.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to a small team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability and technical excellence.
• Ensure high data quality and observability through automated testing, validation, and monitoring processes
• Collaborate with AI Workflow teams to integrate GenAI, RAGs, and Agentic AI components into production workflows.
• Stay current with Sanofi standards, industry practices, and emerging technologies, ensuring the AI Workflow ecosystem remains at the forefront of innovation

About You

You are a dynamic and hands-on Data Engineering lead who combines technical depth with leadership maturity, you enjoy leading small, high-performing teams while staying close to code and architecture decisions. You’re passionate about designing systems that make AI workflows reliable, scalable, and impactful for Sanofi’s enterprise mission.

Key Technical Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong experience leading end-to-end data engineering projects from design to production deployment
• Proven experience with Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, Python, AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases technologies/concepts
• Proven ability to define and enforce data and MLOps standards (CI/CD, observability, lineage, reproducibility)
• Experience in building and maintaining data pipelines, datamarts, and data models at enterprise scale
• Practical understanding of GenAI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and Agentic AI integration
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams — Product, Data Architecture, and AI Engineering
• Ability to work within regulated environments (data privacy, compliance, cybersecurity) is a plus

Soft and behavioral skills

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with the ability to inspire and elevate junior engineers
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal, able to translate technical concepts for diverse stakeholders
• Service-oriented mindset and collaborative spirit
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to drive initiatives independently
• Analytical and structured problem-solver with a delivery focus

Your background

• 5 years of experiences in a data team.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or relevant field
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a strong plus

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

This position is for a new vacant role that we are actively hiring for.

AI Usage

"Artificial Intelligence” refers to any systems that use automated processes, including algorithms and machine learning, to analyze data and make predictions, inferences, decisions, or recommendations without direct human involvement. These systems may process personal information to identify patterns, improve services, or support decision-making. The Company may use Artificial Intelligence for purposes including, but not limited to, resume screening and hiring, scheduling interviews or meetings, conducting surveys, matching skills with potential job openings, interview scoring, ensuring compliance with regulations applicable to our industry, and activities related to performance evaluation. Information collected and processed by the Company’s Artificial Intelligence systems may include the personal information detailed above and calendar availability. It excludes the information collected and processed for monitoring purposes. You should contact Human Resources if you have a question or concern regarding your personal information. You can also contact Canada’s Privacy Officer via Sanofi’s data subject request portal, Data Subject Rights Webform. The Data Subject Rights Webform can also be used to request access or correction of your personal information and file a complaint.

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

158,200.00 - 208,200.00 (Includes target bonus)

Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefits programs, and additional benefits information can be found through the (CA) LINK OR (US) LINK.

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est la suivante:

158,200.00 - 208,200.00 (Comprend le bonus cible)

La rémunération finale sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée, des compétences, du lieu de travail et d'autres facteurs pertinents. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise, et des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sociaux peuvent être trouvées via le lien