Staff Strategic Solution Architect

Sanofi Group; Gentilly; Hybrid; EUR 76,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work up to 2 days/week

Health insurance

Mobility opportunities

Company savings plan

Job summary

Sanofi seeks a Staff Strategic Solution Architect to lead enterprise solution architecture across major business capabilities and digital platforms. You will design scalable, secure cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure) and mentor architects while ensuring alignment with business strategy, security, and compliance in a hybrid work environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, translate complex requirements into practical designs, and guide architecture decisions that balance

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise technology design across multiple domains
• Proven track record leading enterprise or solution architecture for large-scale platforms
• Translate business strategy into scalable, secure end-to-end architectures
• Guide engineering teams through architecture lifecycle in regulated environments
• Contribute to design reviews and architectural governance

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise solution architecture for major business capabilities and digital platforms
• Design transversal platforms and reusable digital capabilities
• Define standards, reference architectures, blueprints, and patterns
• Lead architecture decisions considering scalability, security, cost, and maintainability
• Incorporate cybersecurity, data privacy, GxP, SOX into designs
• Evaluate emerging technologies and adoption paths
• Mentor architects and engineers to reduce debt and improve reuse

Skills

Strategic thinking

Strong communication

Facilitation

Influence without authority

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

Security architecture

API management

Microservices

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

Job title: Staff Strategic Solution Architect

Location: Gentilly, FR or Paris, FR

Type: Permanent, Full-time, Hybrid

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 organization 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 ensure that vision meets execution, foster organizational buy-in, and mentor fellow architects while promoting scalability, interoperability, and innovation across the organization.

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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 enterprise solution architecture for major business capabilities, digital platforms, and cross-domain initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, Digital strategy, and architecture standards
• Design transversal platforms and reusable digital capabilities used across business verticals, balancing enterprise consistency with domain-specific needs
• Define and communicate digital technology standards, reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and solution patterns that promote simplification, reuse, and delivery acceleration
• Lead architecture decisions for high-impact initiatives, guiding trade-off discussions across scalability, resilience, security, compliance, cost, and maintainability
• Incorporate cybersecurity, data privacy, GxP, SOX, and other regulatory requirements into architecture designs to support compliant and risk-aware solutions
• Evaluate emerging technologies, recommending practical adoption paths that improve business outcomes and the enterprise technology landscape
• Serve as a trusted advisor within the architecture community, mentoring architects and engineers while helping reduce technical debt, improve reuse, and drive enterprise-level outcomes

About you

• Experience: 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise technology solutions across multiple business domains
• Proven track record leading enterprise or solution architecture for large-scale digital platforms, business capabilities, or transformation initiatives
• Experience translating business strategy, product needs, and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and practical end-to-end solution architectures
• Experience guiding engineering teams from architecture concept through design, implementation, delivery, and adoption in complex or regulated environments

Soft skills

• Strategic thinker able to navigate ambiguity and translate complex challenges into clear architecture direction aligned with business goals
• Strong communicator who can explain complex architecture concepts to technical and business stakeholders and build alignment across diverse groups
• Skilled facilitator able to lead design sessions, architecture reviews, whiteboarding discussions, and decision-making forums
• Proven ability to influence cross‑functional teams without direct authority while mentoring architects and engineers across the architecture community

Technical skills

• Deep expertise across multiple technology domains, including cloud architecture, software architecture, security architecture, and enterprise platforms
• Hands‑on engineering experience with the ability to prototype, validate, and challenge solution designs beyond static architecture diagrams
• Experience designing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud‑native architectures using AWS and Azure
• Strong understanding of modern software and integration patterns, including APIs, microservices, event‑driven architecture, REST, GraphQL, messaging, and API management
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, identity and access management, risk management, secure design, and compliance‑by‑design practices
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, automation, observability, architecture frameworks, reference architectures, decision records, and architecture roadmaps

Languages

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

Education

• Bachelors required, Masters preferred

Professional certifications

• Professional certifications in relevant technologies, cloud platforms, or architecture frameworks preferred

What we offer you

• A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by a short-term incentive, as well as a collective variable compensation based on Sanofi Group results.
• 31 days of paid leave + RTT depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week, quality health insurance, public transport coverage up to 80%, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), Group Savings Plan & PERCOL with employer matching, PERO, numerous CSE benefits, internal and international mobility opportunities, learning & development opportunities, and many other benefits to discover here.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

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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.

We provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie.

We are Sanofi Start a career that makes a difference. Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug‑discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities. This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est:€76 000,00 - €101 333 Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.