Platform Engineer

R2844103 Platform Engineer

Department: Platform Engineering

About the Job

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative team

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our R&D Data Platforms & Products Team as Platform Engineer and you can help make it happen.

Your job?

Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of its data transformation and of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to accelerate R&D, manufacturing and commercial performance and bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.

As a Platform Engineer in our Digital R&D team, you’ll be the person making sure our data and software work together. You will partner with Product Owners to turn complex scientific ideas into real, scalable digital solutions. This is a hands-on role where you will experiment, build prototypes, and prove that new features work before turning them into high-quality production ready applications for the R&D teams.

Our vision for digital, data analytics and AI

Join us on our journey in enabling Sanofi’s Digital Transformation through becoming an AI first organization. This means:

• AI Factory - Versatile Teams Operating in Cross Functional Pods: Utilizing digital and data resources to develop AI products, bringing data management, AI and product development skills to products, programs and projects to create an agile, fulfilling and meaningful work environment.
• Leading Edge Tech Stack: Experience build products that will be deployed globally on a leading-edge tech stack.
• World Class Mentorship and Training: Working with renown leaders and academics in machine learning to further develop your skillsets.

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:

• Solution Architecture & Design: Partner with Product Owners to design and implement API-first strategies that facilitate seamless data integration across R&D systems.
• Rapid Prototyping (PoC): Lead the development of functional Proof of Concepts to validate architectural frameworks and mitigate technical risks before moving into full-cycle development.
• AI-Centric: Build "AI-Ready" platforms with a focus on building integrated AI Agents and automated application workflows to enhance research capabilities.
• API Management: Develop and maintain a secure, high-performance ecosystem of RESTful APIs to serve as a reliable interface for both users and other systems.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage and scale our secure AWS environment using Terraform, ensuring consistent and reproducible deployments.
• Data Engineering & Orchestration: Build and optimize high-integrity data pipelines using Snowflake and dbt to deliver "AI-ready" datasets to our scientific community.
• Security & GxP Compliance: Uphold stringent pharmaceutical security standards to protect intellectual property and ensure all architectural solutions remain compliant with industry regulations.

About You

Experience

• Bachelor's in science or engineering background is a must with Masters Preferred.
• 3-5 years in platform engineering, full stack development, and building on AWS Cloud
• Knowledge of the complete software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.
• Preferred: Certification in AWS Solution Architect / AWS DevOps
• Communication: Proven ability to explain complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Industry Knowledge: (Preferred) Previous experience in Life Sciences, BioTech, or a highly regulated data environment

Technical Profile

• Cloud Infrastructure: Deep expertise in AWS Foundational Services (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC, ECS/EKS).
• DevOps & CI/CD: Proficiency with Terraform for IaC and GitHub Actions for automation.

Software Development

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, RESTful Services, and AWS API Gateway.
• Frontend: React JS, TypeScript, and Redux for state management.
• Architecture: AI and Experience in designing Scalable & AI-Ready systems (e.g., vector database integration or model serving readiness).
• Security & Integration: SSO-auth (Okta/Azure AD/Ping), Async API calls, and secure data handling.
• Data Engineering (preferred): Experience with Snowflake (Data Warehousing) and dbt