The posting
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Job title: Data & AI Engineer
Location: Paris, France
Work Arrangements: Hybrid (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday onsite)
About the job
As a senior data & AI engineer within our Digital R&D team, you will help revolutionize how Sanofi discovers and delivers life-saving medicines through AI and digital innovation. Ready to get started?
Based in Paris, France, you will be part of a dynamic team driving Sanofi's digital transformation in R&D. We are building outstanding Digital R&D products that participate in new drug discovery together with scientists, in trial efficiency and cycle time reduction, leveraging Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Join the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale, where your expertise will directly impact how we deliver treatments to patients worldwide.
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:
- Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines that transform raw data into valuable insights, ensuring scalability and reliability in cloud environments
- Develop and optimize data models with a focus on query performance and efficient workloads
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, defining clear interface contracts between data products and applications
- Ensure data quality, standardization, observability, and governance across systems, aligning with industry compliance standards and data privacy requirements
- Automate data ingestion processes and monitoring systems to track operational KPIs, troubleshoot issues, and maintain pipeline health
- Build and maintain ETL processes and machine learning workflows, providing clean AI-ready data for downstream applications
- Contribute to MLOps/AIOps practices including model deployment pipelines, model performance monitoring, and reproducibility of ML experiments in production environments
- Actively contribute to transversal data engineering best practices, including design patterns, CI/CD integrations, containerized deployments, and participate in peer review of code and technical documentation standards
- Provide technical guidance to team members, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices
- Coordinate project timelines and deliverables with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals
About you
Experience:
- Strong track record in designing and implementing data pipelines and data warehouse solutions in cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and pipeline orchestration in production settings
- Background working in cross-functional teams, translating business needs into technical solutions
- Experience working within compliance (e.g.: quality, regulatory, data privacy, GxP) and cybersecurity requirements
- Experience in the healthcare industry is a strong plus
Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in SQL and data warehousing platforms (Snowflake preferred)
- Hands-on experience with ETL tools (IICS or equivalent), data transformation tools (dbt preferred), and Python for data processing
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) including orchestration frameworks (Airflow preferred)
- Good knowledge of CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions preferred), version control (Git), and infrastructure as code principles (Terraform preferred)
- Experience in designing and implementing engineering patterns and technical standards
- Good knowledge of logging and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Openshift a plus)
- Possessing relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Snowflake, IICS) is a plus
Soft Skills:
- Collaborative mindset with strong problem-solving abilities
- Self-motivated and able to take initiative in a fast-paced environment
- Effective communication skills to work with both technical and business stakeholders, with the ability to articulate insights and influence decision-making
- AI-assisted engineering as a default: AI tooling is a default expectation, not an experiment. Use it across coding, code review, documentation, and operations. We track adoption.
- Here for the patients: quiet ego, loud standards. Don't fight to be right, fight to deliver for the patients who count on us. Be ruthless on quality, never rude about it.
Education: Master's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field
Languages: English, French
What we offer you:
A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by a short-term incentive, as well as a collective variable compensation based on Sanofi Group results.
Because taking care of our employees is also our mission:
- 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...
Why choose us?
- We provide a highly collaborative environment, with an opportunity to work with a world class team.
- Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation, shaping the future of global health.
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
- Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility.
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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 :€54,400.00 - €81,600.00
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.
