Data Platform Lead, Commercial US

BioSpace; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi, a global biopharma company, seeks a Data Engineering Manager for the US commercial data landscape in Morristown, NJ. You will lead a team of data engineers, design scalable data pipelines, and partner with analytics, AI, and business stakeholders to deliver data products that enable analytics and AI/ML use cases.

You will guide architectural decisions, drive operational excellence, and advance data platforms across cloud-native environments, while staying current with modern data

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform development, including 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Experience designing, building, and operating scalable data pipelines and data platforms using Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Hadoop, or similar.
• Strong cloud-native data engineering experience with Snowflake / AWS; Informatica/IICS preferred.
• Advanced SQL and data modelling skills; working knowledge of Python; Scala/Java a plus.
• Experience with batch, near real-time, and streaming data architectures and modern data warehouse/lakehouse concepts.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational support.
• Ability to translate business needs to scalable technical solutions; strong communication.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams in analytics, AI/ML, product, infrastructure, governance.
• Experience in agile delivery with CI/CD, release management, testing, and operations.
• Experience leading engineering teams through delivery, mentoring, performance management, continuous improvement.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering/STEM or related field, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers while fostering engineering practices and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, deploy, and support scalable data pipelines and data products for analytics, AI/ML, and commercial use cases.
• Lead discovery, solution design, and technical planning with business, analytics, AI, and technology teams.
• Manage team delivery, priorities, capacity planning, and execution across multiple data engineering initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, and optimize scalable data engineering solutions and reusable data assets across global platforms.
• Partner with stakeholders to clarify business needs and translate them into scalable data engineering solutions.
• Provide architectural and technical leadership across data pipeline orchestration, distributed processing, cloud-native platforms, and data integration.
• Drive operational excellence across production data assets including monitoring, incident response, release management.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardise data engineering processes and assets.
• Collaborate in cross-functional agile teams and deliver high-quality data engineering solutions.
• Contribute to evolving data engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Spark

Kafka

Snowflake

Hadoop

SQL

Python

Scala/Java

Cloud-native data engineering

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Informatica/IICS

Job description

Sanofi, a global biopharma company, seeks a Data Engineering Manager for the US commercial data landscape in Morristown, NJ. You will lead a team of data engineers, design scalable data pipelines, and partner with analytics, AI, and business stakeholders to deliver data products that enable analytics and AI/ML use cases.

You will guide architectural decisions, drive operational excellence, and advance data platforms across cloud-native environments, while staying current with modern data