Digital Biomarker Innovation Technical Lead

Sanofi; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

A global biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge is seeking a Digital Biomarker Innovation Technical Lead. This role involves leading the design and implementation of digital biomarker programs to enhance clinical trials. The ideal candidate will have a Master’s degree along with 5-7 years of relevant experience, strong technical skills, and a collaborative mindset. The position offers competitive compensation and is integral to improving patient outcomes through innovation.

Benefits

High-quality healthcare

Wellness programs

Gender-neutral parental leave

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt for improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead study design, execution, data analysis, and insight generation.
• Manage end-to-end development of proof-of-concept studies.
• Engage with clinical teams to gather feedback and improve usability.

Skills

Technical expertise

Collaboration skills

Data analysis

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Master’s degree in biomedical engineering, data science, computer science, or healthcare-relevant field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

SAS

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Sanofi

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

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12.08.2025

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About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

The Clinical Innovation team at Sanofi is responsible foridentifying, accelerating, and scaling innovations that can serve to improve operations and/or outcomes for patients, sites, and sponsors of clinical trials. The Clinical Innovation team includes our digital biomarker (DBM) team which focuses on establishing and executing digital biomarker programs that generate health-related data through digital health technologies (DHTs), provide valuable insights into patients' conditions, and aid in improving the clinical trial experience. The DBM Innovation Lab is the newest capability within the team, established to accelerate adoption of DBMs as trial endpoints, and maximize probability of success for implementation.

In this role, you will design and lead early data generation and device evaluation programs to foster high-confidence, high-value DBM implementation in Sanofi trials.This position is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, hands-on laboratory or experimental experience, and passion for applying digital technologies to healthcare challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Combine your technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration skills to lead study design, execution, data analysis, and insight generation

Manage end-to-end development of proof-of-concept studies that test devices, explore new measures, and generate novel datasets for analysis

Work with the broader DBM team and cross-functional experts (e.g., biostatistics, data science) to translate research questions into practical, "minimum viable product" experiments that inform technology selection and implementation

Help establish the DBM Innovation Lab (“iLab”) as an efficient, high-performing function that accelerates the adoption of digital technologies in clinical trials

Key Activities

Engage with clinical and trial operations teams to understand unmet needs, workflows and pain points, gathering feedback to improve DBM usability and adoption

Develop project plans and tracking systems, coordinating cross-functional working groups to deliver successful technology evaluations

Create practical approaches for testing research questions in resource-efficient settings, with key emphasis on technical feasibility and data quality

Support protocol development with emphasis on technical specifications, data collection procedures, and quality control measures

Partner with data scientists and biostatisticians to design appropriate data management workflows and analysis approaches for digital biomarker evaluation

Build direct relationships with technology vendors to source, configure, and troubleshoot devices required for studies

Serve as hands-on technical lead for study implementation, monitoring performance metrics and implementing technical improvements

Present findings to internal teams with clear explanations of technical concepts, data quality, and operational considerations

Contribute to the DBM iLab roadmap by assessing technical feasibility, integration requirements, and implementation challenges

Support user testing initiatives by implementing technical solutions that capture user experience data effectively

Manage the DBM solution portfolio and loaner device program / relationships

Maintain cutting-edge knowledgeof the digital biomarker landscape through technical forums, product demonstrations, and industry conferences

Build knowledge of data structures, APIs, and technical solutions that enable effective integration of digital measures

Develop processes, operating practices and infrastructure to accelerate and sustain DBM iLab efforts. Support/create educational webinars and presentations to help establish a knowledge base of digital health technologies and digital endpoints within Sanofi

Establish connections within the digital health technical community through participation in standards development, technical working groups, and industry forums

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in biomedical engineering, data science, computer science or healthcare-relevant field; with 5-7 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry

Familiarity with digital technology and health care innovation

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical teams to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions; as well as high-quality qualitative and quantitative analysis

Able to identify data or analytical issues, and provide solutions by either applying own skills and knowledge or seeking help from others

Willing to learn new subject matter and technology, open-minded and adapting for improvement, enthusiastic about innovation and a self-starter to make possibilities real

Proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions in a highly matrixed organization

Strongability to communicate (verbal, written, slides) clearly across technical and non-technical teams

Self-motivated, organized, can-do attitude, collaborative, open-minded, excellent time-management

High standardsforuser experience, not limited to evaluation of DBMs in the participant and trial context, but also for internal studies and collaborative workshops

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with clinical trial operations and / or digital transformation in R&D

Basic technical fluency in data systems, APIs, or machine learning concepts

Basic fluency in analytics / statistical methods and software including SQL, Python, R, SAS, etc.

Experience conducting user research or usability testing in a regulated or complex domain

Agile or continuous improvement experience

MBA or consulting experience

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 applicantswill receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domesticpartnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liabilityfor military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) orany other characteristic protected by law.

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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.

At Sanofi, 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.

Watch our and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at !

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

The salary range for this position is:

$147,000.00 - $212,333.33

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

The Clinical Innovation team at Sanofi is responsible foridentifying, accelerating, and scaling innovations that can serve to improve operations and/or outcomes for patients, sites, and sponsors of clinical trials. The Clinical Innovation team includes our digital biomarker (DBM) team which focuses on establishing and executing digital biomarker programs that generate health-related data through digital health technologies (DHTs), provide valuable insights into patients' conditions, and aid in improving the clinical trial experience. The DBM Innovation Lab is the newest capability within the team, established to accelerate adoption of DBMs as trial endpoints, and maximize probability of success for implementation.

In this role, you will design and lead early data generation and device evaluation programs to foster high-confidence, high-value DBM implementation in Sanofi trials.This position is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, hands-on laboratory or experimental experience, and passion for applying digital technologies to healthcare challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Combine your technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration skills to lead study design, execution, data analysis, and insight generation

Manage end-to-end development of proof-of-concept studies that test devices, explore new measures, and generate novel datasets for analysis

Work with the broader DBM team and cross-functional experts (e.g., biostatistics, data science) to translate research questions into practical, "minimum viable product" experiments that inform technology selection and implementation

Help establish the DBM Innovation Lab (“iLab”) as an efficient, high-performing function that accelerates the adoption of digital technologies in clinical trials

Key Activities

Engage with clinical and trial operations teams to understand unmet needs, workflows and pain points, gathering feedback to improve DBM usability and adoption

Develop project plans and tracking systems, coordinating cross-functional working groups to deliver successful technology evaluations

Create practical approaches for testing research questions in resource-efficient settings, with key emphasis on technical feasibility and data quality

Support protocol development with emphasis on technical specifications, data collection procedures, and quality control measures

Partner with data scientists and biostatisticians to design appropriate data management workflows and analysis approaches for digital biomarker evaluation

Build direct relationships with technology vendors to source, configure, and troubleshoot devices required for studies

Serve as hands-on technical lead for study implementation, monitoring performance metrics and implementing technical improvements

Present findings to internal teams with clear explanations of technical concepts, data quality, and operational considerations

Contribute to the DBM iLab roadmap by assessing technical feasibility, integration requirements, and implementation challenges

Support user testing initiatives by implementing technical solutions that capture user experience data effectively

Manage the DBM solution portfolio and loaner device program / relationships

Maintain cutting-edge knowledgeof the digital biomarker landscape through technical forums, product demonstrations, and industry conferences

Build knowledge of data structures, APIs, and technical solutions that enable effective integration of digital measures

Develop processes, operating practices and infrastructure to accelerate and sustain DBM iLab efforts. Support/create educational webinars and presentations to help establish a knowledge base of digital health technologies and digital endpoints within Sanofi

Establish connections within the digital health technical community through participation in standards development, technical working groups, and industry forums

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in biomedical engineering, data science, computer science or healthcare-relevant field; with 5-7 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry

Familiarity with digital technology and health care innovation

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical teams to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions; as well as high-quality qualitative and quantitative analysis

Able to identify data or analytical issues, and provide solutions by either applying own skills and knowledge or seeking help from others

Willing to learn new subject matter and technology, open-minded and adapting for improvement, enthusiastic about innovation and a self-starter to make possibilities real

Proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions in a highly matrixed organization

Strongability to communicate (verbal, written, slides) clearly across technical and non-technical teams

Self-motivated, organized, can-do attitude, collaborative, open-minded, excellent time-management

High standardsforuser experience, not limited to evaluation of DBMs in the participant and trial context, but also for internal studies and collaborative workshops

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with clinical trial operations and / or digital transformation in R&D

Basic technical fluency in data systems, APIs, or machine learning concepts

Basic fluency in analytics / statistical methods and software including SQL, Python, R, SAS, etc.

Experience conducting user research or usability testing in a regulated or complex domain

Product management experience

Agile or continuous improvement experience

MBA or consulting experience

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 applicantswill receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domesticpartnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liabilityfor military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) orany other characteristic protected by law.

#GD-SA
#LI-SA

#LI-Onsite
#vhd

Pursue , discover

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.

At Sanofi, 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.

Watch our and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at !

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

The salary range for this position is:

$147,000.00 - $212,333.33

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the .