Solutions Engineering Lead - Hybrid Cloud/Full Stack

About the role

Join Sanofi as our Lead Solutions Engineer to shape the future of pharmaceutical technology. Reporting to the Head of Solutions Engineering, you will serve as the technical lead for our Solutions Engineering practice and collaborate with Strategic Architecture and digital partners to drive Sanofis transformation into an AI-powered biopharmaceutical company.

Main Responsibilities

• Hands-On Technical Implementation
• Cloud-Native Architecture & Implementation
• Design and implement hybrid cloud solutions on AWS and Azure for pharmaceutical workloads.
• Architect containerized applications using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) with enterprise-grade reliability.
• Implement cloud-native patterns (microservices, serverless, and event-driven) that support pharmaceutical compliance.
• Deploy and optimize AI/ML infrastructure supporting drug discovery and manufacturing automation.
• Implement AIOps platforms for intelligent infrastructure monitoring and automated operations.
• Build data pipelines and model serving infrastructure for pharmaceutical AI applications.
• Design GPU-optimized clusters and distributed computing environments for machine learning workloads.
• DevOps & Automation Excellence
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, and compliance validation.
• Design observability platforms that provide comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Build self-service automation enabling digital teams to deploy infrastructure safely and rapidly.
• Establish GitOps practices and automated rollback mechanisms for pharmaceutical production systems.
• Optimize hybrid cloud costs through FinOps practices and automated resource management.
• Hybrid Infrastructure Integration
• Design seamless integrations between on-premises pharmaceutical systems and cloud platforms.
• Build disaster recovery and business continuity solutions meeting pharmaceutical regulatory requirements.
• Lead Strategic Technology Vision
• Digital Partner Solution Design
• Lead technical architecture discussions with Digital R&D, Manufacturing, and Corporate peer organizations.
• Provide consultative guidance on cloud, AI, and infrastructure strategies for critical pharmaceutical initiatives.
• Co-design enterprise solutions that balance innovation speed with GxP compliance requirements.
• Translate business challenges into technical solutions aligned with Sanofis AI transformation roadmap.
• Architecture Partnership & Governance
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture on strategic technology initiatives and standards development.
• Provide solution-level architectural decisions in line with enterprise architectural standards.
• Contribute to architectural decision frameworks for cloud, AI, and infrastructure domains.
• Align foundational technology capabilities with digital innovation requirements across the organization.
• Solutions Engineering Practice Development
• Define technical patterns, standards, and best practices for the emerging Solutions Engineering team.
• Establish solution design methodologies that balance pharmaceutical compliance with innovation speed.
• Create technical documentation, reference architecture, and implementation guides.
• AIOps & Intelligent Operations Leadership
• Design and promote AIOps capabilities for infrastructure and DevOps automation.
• Oversee implementation of intelligent monitoring, predictive analytics, and automated remediation.
• Collaborate with the agency AI core team to integrate AI-powered operations into the pharmaceutical technology stack.
• Drive adoption of ML-powered capacity planning, anomaly detection, and self-healing systems.

About You

• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or related technical field - required.
• Master’s - preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive cloud and infrastructure engineering experience - required.
• Additional Relevant Certifications
• Terraform Associate, TOGAF, ITIL, Agile/DevOps.
• Travel Required
• For digital partner engagement and strategic initiatives.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise
• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure and cloud engineering roles with increasing technical leadership.
• Advanced Kubernetes experience, including EKS/AKS in enterprise pharmaceutical or regulated environments.
• Hybrid cloud architecture integrating on-premises systems with cloud-native applications.
• Infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, storage, compute, and security at enterprise scale.
• DevOps & Automation Mastery
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools at scale.
• Ci/CD pipeline design, including automated testing, security scanning, and compliance validation.
• Container orchestration with production Kubernetes implementations and cloud-native patterns.
• Observability platform experience, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing.
• Strategic & Consultative Leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration guiding technical decisions across diverse business and technology teams.
• Standards development, creating technical patterns, and best practices adopted across organizations.
• Stakeholder communication, translating technical concepts for business leaders and non-technical audiences.
• Hightly Valued Experience
• Hands-on AI/ML infrastructure deployment, including model serving, training clusters, and data pipelines.
• AIOps implementation experience on AWS (CloudWatch Insights, Systems Manager, DevOps Guru, or equivalent).
• ML platform operations with experience in SageMaker, Azure ML, or similar enterprise ML platforms.
• Intelligent automation, including predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences technology implementation with GxP compliance understanding.
• Regulated industry background (healthcare, financial services, government) with validation experience.
• Large-scale digital transformations in organizations with 10,000+ users.
• Multi-cloud governance and FinOps implementation with measurable cost optimization outcomes.
• Site Reliability Engineering practices, including error budgets, SLOs, and incident management.
• Technical team leadership, including hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.
• Open-source contributions to cloud-native, Kubernetes, or AI/ML infrastructure projects.
• Enterprise SDLC Implementation, including cybersecurity expertise including code security and infrastructure hardening.
• Technical Leadership
• Lead complex technical discussions with confidence and credibility across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Challenge technical assumptions constructively while respecting domain expertise.
• Balance innovation adoption with operational stability and pharmaceutical compliance.
• Make sound architectural decisions in the face of ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Strategic Thinking
• Connect technical solutions to pharmaceutical business outcomes and patient impact.
• Anticipate future technology trends and proactively prepare infrastructure capabilities.
• Design solutions that scale globally across diverse regulatory environments.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural vision.
• Collaborative Influence
• Build trust and credibility with digital peer organizations through consistent delivery.
• Navigate matrix organizations and drive consensus without formal authority.
• Partner effectively with Enterprise Architecture while maintaining a solutions delivery focus.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Communication Excellence
• Articulate complex technical architectures clearly for both technical and business audiences.
• Create compelling technical documentation, reference architectures, and implementation guides.
• Present technical vision and strategy to C-level executives and senior leadership.
• Facilitate productive technical discussions across distributed, global teams.

Why Is This Role Unique?

• Foundational Impact: You are not joining an established team; you will be one of the first on a team tasked to build out the Solutions Engineering practice. Define standards, establish patterns, and create methodologies that will guide Sanofis technology transformation for years to come.
• Strategic Influence: Lead solution design with digital peer organizations supporting drug discovery, manufacturing automation, and regulatory compliance. Your technical decisions directly impact pharmaceutical innovation timelines and patient outcomes.
• AI Transformation Leadership: Work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and AI-powered operations. Design AIOps platforms that revolutionize how pharmaceutical technology operates while supporting our agency AI transformation initiatives.
• Technical & Strategic Balance: This role is both hands-on and strategic. Spend 50% of your time building and implementing solutions, and 50% shaping technical vision and guiding digital partner organizations.
• Architecture Partnership: Work directly with Enterprise Architecture on strategic initiatives while maintaining a solutions delivery focus to accelerate pharmaceutical innovation. Connect enterprise standards with practical implementation.

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.
• Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.
• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.
• Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce.