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Job Title: Data Architect
- Location: Paris
- Remote working: 2 days remote, 3 days on-site
About the Job
At Sanofi, we're committed to providing next-generation healthcare by harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly. Join our Accelerator R&D Team as a Digital Data Architect to help create and design state-of-the-art data platforms supporting advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning initiatives.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with a purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve lives. Digital & Data are central to Sanofi's ambition to be a leading digital healthcare platform, developing and delivering medicines faster, enabling healthcare professionals, and helping patients improve their health. Ready to start?
Main Responsibilities
- Lead data strategy and solution design for innovative products within the R&D Accelerator, translating high-level business requirements into data models, metadata, test data, and quality standards.
- Implement data architecture foundations to meet various business use cases across research, development, clinical, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance areas.
- Simplify data strategies by delivering reusable services and cost-saving solutions aligned with group policies and standards.
- Manage end-to-end product solutions throughout their lifecycle, ensuring compliance with enterprise data models.
- Provide leadership in R&D data architecture, maintaining current and target-state architectures and ensuring alignment with enterprise principles.
- Participate in peer reviews, quality assurance, and governance forums, reporting key architectural decisions.
- Evaluate and recommend technology solutions, oversee third-party architecture designs, and participate in supplier selection.
- Collaborate with digital teams, analysts, and data scientists to develop data solutions based on needs.
- Ensure data integrity and privacy, especially regarding protected health information (PHI).
- Align architecture with Agile DevOps practices in accordance with the Accelerator strategy.
Key Requirements
- Understanding of life sciences/pharma industry.
- Extensive experience in R&D data architecture and data processing systems (OLTP, OLAP, normalization, denormalization).
- Experience managing full lifecycle R&D projects, working with cross-functional teams and vendors.
- Expertise in optimizing R&D platforms for business value, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
- Ability to govern architecture decisions ensuring compliance with GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, and data quality standards.
- Detail-oriented, customer-focused, capable of working across time zones, and a team player.
- Knowledge of agile environments and experience as Solution Architect is preferred.
- Familiarity with GxP, HIPAA, GDPR regulations is a plus.
- Professional, reliable, and consistent behavior.
Languages
- Fluent spoken and written English
Why Choose Us?
- Collaborative environment with a world-class team.
- Be part of a pioneer in digital transformation within healthcare.
- Contribute to scientific miracles and innovative health solutions.
- Opportunities for growth, promotions, and international mobility.
- Competitive rewards and comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits, including parental leave.
Join us in pursuing progress and discovering the extraordinary. At Sanofi, we are committed to equal opportunities and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.