Staff Strategic Solution Architect

Le contenu du poste est libellé en anglais car il nécessite de nombreuses interactions avec nos filiales à l’international, l'anglais étant la langue de travail. This job offer is accessible to all, regardless of gender. Job title: Staff Strategic Solution Architect Location: Gentilly, FR or Paris, FR Type: Permanent,Full-time,Hybrid   About the job Are you ready to push the boundaries of what’s possible? At Sanofi, we are committed to providing next-generation healthcare solutions that patients and customers need. By harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly, we aim to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital Architecture Center of Excellence organization and play a key role in shaping and driving architecture on a global enterprise level to support Sanofi’s Digital transformation. As a Strategic Solution Architect, you will ensure that vision meets execution, foster organizational buy-in, and mentor fellow architects while promoting scalability, interoperability, and innovation across the organization. Ready to get started? 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 • Lead enterprise solution architecture for major business capabilities, digital platforms, and cross-domain initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives, Digital strategy, and architecture standards • Design transversal platforms and reusable digital capabilities used across business verticals, balancing enterprise consistency with domain-specific needs • Define and communicate digital technology standards, reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and solution patterns that promote simplification, reuse, and delivery acceleration • Lead architecture decisions for high-impact initiatives, guiding trade-off discussions across scalability, resilience, security, compliance, cost, and maintainability • Incorporate cybersecurity, data privacy, GxP, SOX, and other regulatory requirements into architecture designs to support compliant and risk-aware solutions • Evaluate emerging technologies, recommending practical adoption paths that improve business outcomes and the enterprise technology landscape • Serve as a trusted advisor within the architecture community, mentoring architects and engineers while helping reduce technical debt, improve reuse, and drive enterprise-level outcomes About you Experience: • 10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise technology solutions across multiple business domains • Proven track record leading enterprise or solution architecture for large-scale digital platforms, business capabilities, or transformation initiatives • Experience translating business strategy, product needs, and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and practical end-to-end solution architectures • Experience guiding engineering teams from architecture concept through design, implementation, delivery, and adoption in complex or regulated environments Soft skills: • Strategic thinker able to navigate ambiguity and translate complex challenges into clear architecture direction aligned with business goals • Strong communicator who can explain complex architecture concepts to technical and business stakeholders and build alignment across diverse groups • Skilled facilitator able to lead design sessions, architecture reviews, whiteboarding discussions, and decision-making forums • Proven ability to influence cross