Staff Strategic Solution Architect

Sanofi; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work up to 2 days/week

31 days of paid leave + RTT depending 

Health insurance

Public transport coverage 80%

Group Savings Plan & PERCOL with em pl

Job summary

Sanofi est à la recherche d’un Staff Strategic Solution Architect pour piloter l’architecture d’entreprise et les plateformes numériques à l’échelle globale. Le rôle exige de fédérer les parties prenantes, d’assurer la conformité réglementaire et de favoriser l’innovation dans un cadre hybride.

Vous travaillerez dans le Digital Architecture Center of Excellence et superviserez des initiatives critiques tout en encadrant des architectes et des équipes techniques.

Qualifications

• Expérience démontrée en architecture d’entreprise et solutions à grande échelle.
• Capacité à traduire stratégie métier en architectures évolutives et sécurisées.
• Connaissance des environnements réglementés et des pratiques DevSecOps.
• Expérience en encadrement et mentorat d’équipes d’architectes et d’ingénieurs.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise solution architecture for major business capabilities and digital platforms.
• Design reusable digital capabilities and cross‑domain platforms.
• Define digital technology standards, reference architectures and patterns.
• Guide decisions on scalability, security, compliance, and cost.
• Integrate cybersecurity, data privacy, SOX/GxP requirements into designs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and practical adoption paths.
• Mentor architects and engineers across the organization.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Facilitation

Influence leadership

Education

Bachelors

Masters

Tools

AWS

Azure

APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Job description

Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail.

This job offer is accessible to all, regardless of gender.

Job title: Staff Strategic Solution Architect

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. Ready to get started?

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

Experience

About you

• 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

Education

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

Languages

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

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. Because taking care of our employees is also our mission: 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.