About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.   

Sanofi’s Digital organization’s mission is to transform Sanofi into a data-first and AI first organization by empowering everyone with good data. Through custom developed AI products built on world class data foundations and platforms, the team builds value and a unique competitive advantage that scales across our markets, R&D and manufacturing sites. The team is located in major hubs in Paris, Lyon, Barcelona, Cambridge, Bridgewater and most recently, Toronto, with the aim of opening a new office in Hyderabad. Join a dynamic, fast paced and talented team, with world class mentorship, using AI to chase the miracle of science.

About Growing with us

In this role you will

• Play a critical role in managing, supporting the iCare Exchange AWS Cloud Platform.
• Accountable for delivering Digital Patient Services Products and Solutions assisting Sanofi Patient Services functions.
• Leverages specialized, functional expertise for solving complex functional problems as individual or as team member.
• Leads and executes functional and technical expertise all along the lifecycle (plan, design, build, run) of Digital Patient Services leveraging AWS Cloud, Python, and other Integration tools.
• Provide solution guidance for highly complex business processes, regulatory (HIPAA, Data Privacy, GxP, etc.), compliance and cybersecurity processes.
• Leverage the Digital portfolio, catalog of services, existing platforms as well as integrate new industry standards to define and implement the Patient Services products and services.

About you

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design of Patient Support Services (PSS) solutions for large programs, products, and projects.
• Acts as Authority and subject matter expert owing standards and practices related to Patient Services functional expertise in AWS Cloud Platform.
• Work with team and fellow Engineers to track and align on solution built as part of different streams in the Program.
• Work as part of the Agile teams on large programs, governing, shaping the delivery of projects supporting design, architecture, enhancements, with focus on optimizing business processes, finding business and technical alignments across multiple therapeutic areas where possible.
• Work closely with external suppliers to ensure solution makes best use of technology and meets business requirements.
• Work with vendor partners of managed packages to ensure that the product enhancements are incorporated without impact to business.
• Work with respective team to ensure the POC of new solutions are presented and incorporated to reap the benefits of new functionalities of the platform.
• Direct and support large specialist product teams to undertake the delivery of comprehensive Patient Support Services solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation assessment of the Patient Support Services solutions built on AWS Cloud with a patient centric vision.
• Lead collaborative team working with other areas within Digital to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes, and meet the business needs with the agreed quality of service.
• Responsible throughout the entire project lifecycle for the end-to-end solution of the product and compliance with enterprise model.
• Lead and participate in peer review and quality assurance of project design/architecture artifacts across Digital teams. Report key decisions and implications to the architectural governance forums.
• Work with Digital teams (Architecture, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Data, etc.), business analysts and agile teams to understand patient needs and develop solutions in a timely and compliant way.
• Working closely with Agile pod teams review user stories, data sets, documentation, and business rules to provide functional and technical signoff.
• Identify and communicate appropriate resource requirements and work breakdown structure based on skills profile and best fit to complete the end-to-end solution design, and work with the program manager to ensure that project plans and finances align with the design.
• Participate in the supplier selection process, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations.
• Implement (and create) standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure patient quality; drive product, project knowledge back to the enterprise team and ensure that it evolves correctly.
• Ensure technology solutions are in alignment with patient services architecture principles and target state.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for patient support services solutions.
• Responsible for ensuring the integrity and privacy of Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Ensure Patient Services Agile DevOps alignment to architecture implementation in compliant and consistent manner with team strategy.

Job Specific Skills, Competencies & Proficiency

• Application Design & Integration: Advanced
• AWS Cloud: Advanced
• Python or equivalent: Advanced
• Informatica Cloud: Intermediate
• Life Sciences/Patient Support Services expertise: Intermediate
• DevOps: Intermediate
• Architecture: Advanced
• Compliance of computerized systems: Intermediate
• Lean & Agile practices: Intermediate
• Business Acumen: Intermediate
• Problem Solving: Intermediate
• Decision Making: Intermediate
• Critical Thinking: Intermediate
• Transversal collaboration: Intermediate

Job Qualifications

• Understanding of life sciences/pharma.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of Software engineering and design experience with large scale business applications in a fast-paced iterative development environment.
• Proven working experience with AWS Cloud technologies (S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Step Functions, Lambda, etc.).
• Proven working experience with Python, JavaScript (or equivalent)
• Strong experience with Agile based development and experience working on agile based teams.
• Experience in Salesforce Technologies is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a strategic mindset.
• The candidate must be detailed oriented, customer driven, able to work well across time zones on a truly global team, and a team player.
• The ideal candidate will have experience providing consumer or patient facing technologies.
• Expected to carry out core accountabilities with minimal level of supervision for complex tasks and no supervision for more routine matters.
• Preferred experience with GxP, HIPAA and GDPR regulations.
• Demonstrate professional and reliable behavior on a consistent basis.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

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, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

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 ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!