Sanofi | Senior Data Architect | Bridgewater, NJ | United States | BigDataKB.com | 2023-01-27

Sanofi: (NYSE: SNY) is a leading global integrated healthcare company that discovers, develops, and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. The company works to prevent and treat the diseases of today, as well as those we may face tomorrow. With over 100,000 dedicated professionals in more than 100 countries, Sanofi is devoted to advancing healthcare around the world. Sanofi operates across multiple therapeutic areas including General Medicines, Specialty Care, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare.

Equal opportunity employer: Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity to foster positive, innovative thinking that will benefit people worldwide. Sanofi is also committed to employing qualified individuals with disabilities and, where warranted, will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants, as well as its employees.

Consumer healthcare (CHC) business unit: The role will regard Sanofi’ Consumer Healthcare. Becoming a standalone division, Consumer Healthcare’s purpose is to serve healthier, fuller lives by offering moments of relief to our Patients & Consumers in our key platforms, including Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Health. CHC does business in 133 countries; 4000 professionals work in marketing, sales and services teams. Learn more at www.sanofi.com/en/your-health/consumer-healthcare.

Consumer Healthcare is becoming a standalone division within Sanofi in order to become a faster moving, consumer and customer centric business as part of project CHLOE (Consumer HealthCare Lead Optimize Empower). This business and IT transformation will entail a standalone ERP, Financial, Systems, Regulatory and People.

Global Digital Team: The team is charged with accelerating the shift to precision marketing and to e-commerce sales, scaling best-in-class data driven decision making tools, capturing new opportunities in the digital health space and uphauling disjointed commercial systems. This team leverages both dedicated expertise internally at Sanofi, and delivery and deployment partners. It builds products, runs service / outsourcing contracts, and develops centers of excellence in technology and digital.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

This position reports to the Head of Data Architecture, Modeling & BI in the CHC business unit in Sanofi

• A cornerstone of CHC transformation in the coming years, the Senior Data Architect will create relationships across the enterprise that help to understand CHC’s business model, current data environment and needs, and how data drives the success.

• This position will collaborate with multiple business functions to provide guidance in implementing the right data model and practices that meet their needs.

• S/he will closely work with business partners, stakeholders, and the data governance team to create a logical data model architecture for various data objects.

• S/he will work on modern data architecture techniques and cloud data technologies.

• The candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively

• You will work with a diverse team of business analysts, data scientists, technical engineers, data architects, and project managers to deliver outcomes aligned with our business need.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Data Architect will be responsible for:

• Lead data architecture & modeling efforts within Snowflake, AWS, and related cloud data products, including the design of data structures and the identification of business transformation logic.

• Analyzing and translating business requirements into conceptual and detailed logical data models.

• Creating logical data models based on existing applications and databases.

• Working with business architects, data architects, and data stewards to capture business requirements in a Logical Data Model.

• Transform the logical representation of the model into a physical representation and work with database administrators to instantiate and manage the data.

• Contribute to assessment of appropriate data platform(s) for solutioning efforts.

• Responsible for the development of on-prem and/or cloud native RDBMS, operational data store (ODS), data marts, and data lakes on target platforms (SQL/NoSQL)

• Collaborate with the BI and Analytics teams on creating optimized, reusable semantic model, complete with metadata and lineage information.

• Oversee and govern the expansion of existing data architecture and the optimization of data query performance via best practices

• Define and govern data modeling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models

• Optimize the model to ensure predictable performance

• Maintain the metadata – describing the data model, its structure, and semantics

QUALIFICATIONS:

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  7 years or more experience in Data Architecture and Modeling. 3+ years’ experience in Snowflake and AWS

• Strong experience in Snowflake, AWS and related cloud data products

• Working knowledge of IICS, dbt and other ETL/ELT technologies

• Experience with BI tools preferably Power BI

• Advanced SQL Skills

• Experience working in FMCG

• Experience in Data strategies and developing logical and physical data models on RDBMS, NoSQL and Cloud native databases

• Agile ways of working and large projects phased delivery

• Experience of Interfacing heterogeneous systems and data sources

• Working knowledge of procuring data from SAP

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

• TOGAF certification or similar Data Architecture education preferred

• Fluent in English

International program management skills:

• Work with multicultural and multi-sourced teams

• Multi-country deployment, involving local stakeholders

• Cross functional leadership and influencing

• Contracting and contract managing software vendors and system integrators

• Strategic development in a multi-dimensional and rapid changing environment

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

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.