Staff Strategic Solution Architect H/F

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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. 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

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

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.

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Chez Sanofi, la diversité et l'inclusion sont au coeur de notre fonctionnement et sont intégrées à nos Valeurs fondamentales. Nous sommes conscients que pour exploiter véritablement la richesse que la diversité nous apporte, nous devons faire preuve d'inclusion et créer un environnement de travail où ces différences peuvent s'épanouir et être développées pour améliorer le quotidien de nos collègues, patients et clients. Nous respectons et valorisons la diversité de nos collaborateurs, leurs parcours et leurs expériences dans un objectif d'égalité des chances pour tous.

Dans le cadre de son engagement diversité, Sanofi accueille et intègre des collaborateurs en situation de handicap.

La fourchette salariale pour ce poste est:€76000,00 - €101333

La rémunération finale sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée, des compétences, de la localisation et d'autres facteurs pertinents. Les employés peuvent être éligibles pour participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise.