Lead Data and AI Engineer
Core
Lead a team of data engineers to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, AI/ML, and commercial business use cases for Sanofi's global operations.
Role type
Senior IC data engineering leader with people management responsibilities
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, data products, and cloud-native platforms enabling AI/ML and commercial workflows
Domain
Biopharma / Healthcare data engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Data pipeline architecture, distributed processing, cloud-native engineering, team leadership, solution design, stakeholder management, operational excellence, data modeling, batch/streaming architectures
Preferred skills
Life sciences domain knowledge, data orchestration (Airflow/dbt), data governance, vendor management
Technologies
Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Hadoop, AWS, Informatica/IICS, Python, Scala, Java, SQL, Airflow, dbt
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of data engineers; Design and deploy scalable data pipelines and data products; Lead discovery and technical planning with business and tech teams; Manage team delivery, priorities, and capacity planning; Optimize data engineering solutions and reusable assets; Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions; Provide architectural leadership for data orchestration and cloud platforms; Drive operational excellence for production data assets
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management