• Locations: Lyon, France (Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite, 2 days remote)

We are looking for a Digital Solution Architect to define, govern, and evolve technology solutions supporting Manufacturing Sciences, Analytics & Technology (MSAT).

This is primarily an architecture, strategy, and roadmap-focused role. The successful candidate will be responsible for shaping end-to-end solution architectures, defining future-state technology landscapes, and ensuring the successful alignment of business, scientific, and manufacturing needs with scalable digital solutions.

The role does not involve hands-on software development or direct implementation. Instead, it focuses on architecture leadership, technology strategy, solution governance, and stakeholder engagement across business and technology functions.

Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence are important solution domains within the MSAT portfolio. However, the primary focus of the role is to establish robust, scalable, and compliant technology architectures spanning applications, integrations, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, and manufacturing systems.

As the organization continues to evolve its digital capabilities and adopt emerging technologies, the role will require curiosity, adaptability, and a continuous learning mindset.

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.

At Sanofi, we’re committed to transform the practice of medicine through break-through science. Within Sanofi, Manufacturing & Supply (M&S) is the bridge between Science and Patients, ensuring all patients get their dose reliably, that new medicines are launched faster to cover unmet needs and that they can be delivered affordably across the globe. At Sanofi we are convinced that Manufacturing is, and must in the future increasingly be, a competitive advantage and that digital unlocks every next step in that journey.

Join Sanofi Manufacturing & Supply (M&S): Where Innovation Meets Life-Saving Impact in the Heart of Lyon!

Imagine working in a vibrant startup environment, right in Lyon’s bustling city center!

Why This Role?

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future digital and analytics strategy for MSAT while working at the intersection of manufacturing science, data, analytics, cloud, and AI. It is ideal for someone who enjoys defining direction, influencing strategy, and building long-term digital capabilities rather than focusing on day-to-day implementation.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Strategy

• Define and maintain technology architecture strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures supporting MSAT business objectives.
• Design end-to-end solution architectures covering applications, integrations, cloud services, data platforms, and manufacturing systems.
• Translate business, scientific, and operational requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead architecture reviews and technology evaluations to support strategic decision-making.
• Establish and promote architecture standards, principles, patterns, and best practices.
• Drive platform rationalization, modernization, and technology lifecycle management.
• Ensure solution designs are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Digital, Data & AI Enablement

• Define architecture patterns enabling data, analytics, and AI capabilities across the MSAT ecosystem.
• Support the adoption and integration of advanced analytics and AI services within enterprise technology landscapes.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Analytics teams to ensure solutions are scalable and sustainable.
• Identify opportunities to leverage digital technologies to improve manufacturing performance, process understanding, and business decision-making.
• Ensure data and AI solutions align with governance, compliance, and security requirements.

Manufacturing & MSAT Enablement

• Process optimization
• Technology transfer
• Process validation
• Lifecycle management
• Continuous improvement initiatives

• Understanding manufacturing science and operational processes.
• Supporting the digitization of MSAT capabilities through scalable technology solutions.
• Aligning scientific and business objectives with enterprise technology strategies.
• Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, collaboration, and data accessibility across the MSAT landscape.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure architectural solutions align with GxP requirements.
• Embed security, compliance, privacy, and governance principles into solution architectures.
• Support audit and inspection readiness from a digital architecture perspective.
• Ensure architecture decisions comply with enterprise technology standards and regulatory expectations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to MSAT, Manufacturing, Quality, Data, Digital, and IT stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment across business, scientific, and technology organizations.
• Influence strategic technology decisions and promote architecture best practices.
• Foster collaboration between enterprise architecture, solution delivery, digital, and business teams.
• Communicate architecture vision, roadmaps, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by a short-term incentive, as well as a collective variable compensation based on Sanofi Group results.

• Benefits & Well-being: Quality health insurance, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), enhanced support in case of illness, teleconsultation and second medical opinion covered by Sanofi, as well as many other wellness programs to discover here.
• Work-Life Balance: 31 days of paid leave + RTT depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week
• Transportation: Public transport coverage up to 80%
• Savings & Retirement: Group Savings Plan and PERCOL with employer matching, and PERO
• Professional Development: Internal and international mobility opportunities, learning & development opportunities
• And more: platforms dedicated to peer-to-peer recognition & service exchanges between Sanofi employees (carpooling, home exchanges, etc.), numerous CSE benefits...

Required Experience

• Solution Architecture
• Manufacturing IT/OT Architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• Data & Analytics Architecture
• Manufacturing Sciences (MSAT)

Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, or other regulated environments is preferred.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong solution architecture and system design experience.
• Experience defining target-state architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Ability to design scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise solutions.
• Good understanding of integration patterns, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of data, analytics, and AI platforms and how they support business capabilities.
• Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• Knowledge of governance, risk, and compliance considerations within regulated environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.

Technical Knowledge

• Public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)
• Solution and application architecture
• Integration platforms, APIs, and event-driven architectures
• Data platforms and analytics ecosystems
• Enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Manufacturing systems and digital manufacturing environments
• MES, Historian, LIMS, ELN, and manufacturing data platforms
• Security architecture and governance frameworks
• Data governance and information management practices
• IT/OT integration environments

Soft Skills

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to collaborate across scientific, business, manufacturing, and technology teams.
• Strategic thinking and systems-level problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical topics for diverse audiences.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a learning mindset.
• Leadership without authority and effective decision facilitation.

• Experience supporting global manufacturing organizations.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
• Experience with cloud transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks.
• Experience with digital transformation programs in manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes and MSAT operations.
• Exposure to modern integration technologies and event-driven architectures.

Why choose us?

• Work alongside a supportive and forward-thinking team dedicated to advancing the frontiers of healthcare.
• Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation.
• Discover diverse career growth opportunities, whether through promotions, lateral moves, or international assignments.
• Benefit from a comprehensive rewards package that acknowledges your contributions and enhances your impact.
• Access a wide range of health and wellness benefits, including high-quality healthcare, preventive programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas, and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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.

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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 !

The salary range for this position is :€64,000.00 - €85,333 Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.