Software Engineering Expert – Digital R&D Data Products

• Job Title: Software Engineering Expert
• Location: Hyderabad
• Flexible working: 60% home office / week
• Job type: Permanent, Full time

About the Digital R&D Data Products team

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 has recently embarked on an ambitious digital transformation program. The Digital R&D Data Product team is a central part of this transformation journey, leading the acceleration of the digitalization of R&D data landscape by building state-of-the-art Data fabric and delivering AI-powered Data Products across R&D functions. 

About Growing with us

In this role you will develop globally scalable solutions that are needed by Sanofi’s Digital R&D Data products, empowering AI and ML initiatives to generate value across the R&D Value Chain, specifically:

• Participate in business research, including surveys, workshops, and leading user interviews, to support the product owner in exploring new opportunities. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for solution improvements. 
• Work with product owners, solution architects, technical leads, and other developers for user story framing/grooming, solution design, and alignment. 
• Decompose user stories into tasks, estimate story points, and ensure timely updates in Jira. 
• Create and optimize prototypes, aligning with business and digital stakeholders. 
• Write required documentation and follow the validation process with QA/quality experts. 
• Support QA during SIT/UAT phases, escalating issues, risks, and identifying decisions needed. 
• Design, code, test, debug, and maintain digital applications according to requirements. 
• Assist in the deployment of applications to production environment and provide technical support during and after the release phase.
• Contribute to the entire application lifecycle, with a focus on coding and debugging. 
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, extensibility, etc. 
• Conduct peer reviews for quality, consistency, and rigor for production level solution
• Actively contribute to Digital Software Engineering community and define leading practices and frameworks
• Remain up to date on the company’s standards, industry practices and emerging technologies 

About you

Key Functional Requirements & Qualifications:

• Experience working cross-functional teams to solve complex data architecture and engineering problems 
• Demonstrated ability to learn new data and software engineering technologies in short amount of time
• Experience working in cloud-based platforms (AWS, Snowflake, etc.)
• Able to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and manage multiple priorities  
• Strong technical analysis and problem-solving skills related to data and technology solutions
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate ideas, concepts and solutions to peers and leaders
• Pragmatic and capable of solving complex issues, with technical intuition and attention to detail  
• Service-oriented, flexible, and approachable team player 
• Fluent in English (Other languages a plus)
• Experience with pharmaceutical/healthcare industry business processes a plus

Key Technical Requirements & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field 
• 5 + year of experience in software engineering
• Experience with web design and development, familiar with key languages & tools (Python, Java, javascript, HTML, IICS, Snowflake, MongoDB, Graph DB (neo4j), Flask, React JS, Node JS, Typescript, GraphQL, Github, Spring Boot, Maven, CI/CD, Argo CD, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Practical understanding of software development principles and lifecycle, web development technologies / frameworks, APIs, and common web technologies essential to building seamless multi-channel experiences 
• Working knowledge of scripting languages (Python, SQL, Shell scripting)
• Experience in cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake is a plus)
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases technologies/concepts

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, disability, or gender identity 
 
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At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.