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Accelerator - Digital Lead Developer - All Gender

date posted 03/26/2024
contract type Full time
job id R2733949
location Paris, France

Our Team:

We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. Our purpose is to find treatment to fight pain and ease suffering. We combine breakthrough science and advanced technology to develop life-changing medicines and vaccines.

Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi: our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments and help patients improve their health. Our scale, strong connections within health ecosystems across leveraging the world, and ability to leverage Sanofi’s capabilities make us the best place to push the boundaries of medicine through technology.

We are building Digital R&D products developing outstanding capabilities that will participate in new drug discovery together with scientists, in trial efficiency and cycle time reduction, leveraging Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

Remote working : 2 days remote working, 3 days on site

Main responsibilities:

  • Technical and people leadership and guidance for software engineering teams, engineers love to work with you
  • Experience developing high performance, highly available & scalable applications with a micro-services architecture and an understanding of observability
  • Experience working with distributed teams
  • Deep Technical understanding of modern web architectures and frameworks
  • In depth exposure to cloud platforms, preferably AWS
  • Ability to drive continuous improvement through multiple cross-platform teams
  • Ability to learn fast, and a passion for learning absolutely essential
  • Diverse programming language experience preferred
  • Proven experience of agile practices
  • Assist with practices and principles to ensure adoption across teams, as well as measuring and maintaining maturity
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
  • Manage vendors to ensure delivery of initiatives per requirements and design
  • Help us grow and develop our engineering culture
  • Lead the vision, strategy and values within the team and across the Digital Accelerator
  • Build out innovative technology competencies

You are a software engineer that want to collaborate with teammates to implement a new feature and help improve our products. Add to our existing services or roll out a new service to support this feature. Identify and help troubleshoot an issue affecting users in one of our many regions in the world. Participate in defining new product requirements and design together with the product team.

Experience:

  • Experience leading a group of developers, evaluating performance, and providing objective and actionable feedback
  • Experience in scaling systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
  • Experience working with both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional, interdisciplinary environment, including strong written and verbal communication skills
  • MS in software engineering or computer science or equivalent experience
  • Experience in the healthcare industry is a strong plus

Soft skills:

  • Ability to work independently and as part of multiple teams inside a global engineering team
  • You like to move fast, but with caution
  • High energy, confident, and ambitious individual
  • Must be a passionate communicator, willing to challenge and enhance ideas while preserving relationships
  • Interested in lots of aspects of technology, not just one tech!
  • Must be as passionate as we are about chasing the miracle of science to improve people's lives
  • Personal ownership of tasks and tenacious approach to finding and fixing the root cause of issues
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Service-oriented, flexible, positive team player
  • Problem solving & critical thinking

Technical skills:

We have a diverse stack and as long as you are willing to work with a microservices approach,we are open-minded about your technology preferences. You’ll have the ability to explore new technologies and strategies.

Some of the key tech we use:

  • Backends: GraphQL, Node.js
  • We use key components of the AWS stack: Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS and more of the core services
  • Frontends: React.js
  • You don’t have to be a specialist in everything but willing to learn

Education:

  • MS in software engineering or computer science or equivalent

Languages: English

We provide a highly collaborative environment, with an opportunity to work with a world class team. You will be able to :

Learn what it takes to make a service with a truly global reach.

Be part of an organization that values diversity, inclusion, and the richness of different backgrounds and experiences. 

Engage in meaningful work that combines the challenges of the medical, pharma, and technical fields, offering abundant opportunities for professional growth and impact. 

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. 

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, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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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.

As part of its diversity commitment, Sanofi is welcoming and integrating people with disabilities.

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