Job Description

JOB SUMMARY:

About Sanofi:

We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions. Sanofi has recently embarked into a vast and ambitious digital transformation program to bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.

Who You Are:

Reporting to API Management and Web Technology team, you guide clients in the architecture, design, setup, and management of the API platform in on-premise datacenters or cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and GCP responsible for designing, developing, implementing, managing and securing APIs and support business project in them API Journey assessing the opportunities and simplifying the current architectures. To successfully accomplish this task, you work in close collaboration with program and project leaders, engineers, external, solution architects, partners, and relevant business stakeholders leveraging our API technologies standards.

API Platform engineer have the primary responsibility of design API Platform from scratch and contribute to set of services and associated technologies across the Digital tower’s organization, as well as following the related application portfolio roadmap.
Participate in developing cross-functional Digital towers strategy, and lead definition and implementation of high-performance application services and solutions such as, architecture, processes, and best practices.
Accountable for the performance, quality, security, efficiency, compliance aligned with legal and regulatory constraints, and consistent delivery of their services.
Deep understanding of a microservices architecture with demonstrable experience in the design, build, and operations of micro services in a production environment
Applications frameworks such as Ruby, Phyton, JAVA, Asp.NET, etc
Ensure that the technology strategy of the Digital Tech organization has been aligned with the short-term and long-term business strategies.
Track functionality and technology roadmaps of primary IT vendors and partners in their areas to build the Digital Tech service roadmap.
Facilitate the transfer of knowhow, experiences, and good practices within the Operational team.
Support the customers’ success and dare to bring new innovative ideas.
Experience in Agile delivery and strong problem-solving skills.
Responsible for the technical solution and the technical delivery teams along with the Project Managers.
Maintain the customers’ relationship and be the focal point for technical and architectural matters.
Recognized as a subject matter expert in the area: Provide consulting to customers on business systems’ development, and guide others through complex projects and/or assignments.

The API Platform engineer should focus on API Management platform using the market-based solutions with the missions explained above. They include API Management best practices, API Portal, API Gateway, Automation and application virtualization related services, including DevOps methodology mindset as well as all current and future market-based technology related services to support business applications and bring/suggesting new platforms and technologies.

Knowledge And Skills

Technical knowledge

Good knowledge and experience around Infrastructure technologies (Solid knowledge in Cloud Azure, hosting platforms, API, …)
Public and private clouds infrastructure and services i.e Azure, AWS and GCP
Legacy hosting platforms (Datacenters, VmWare vSphere), LAN/WAN and security
Operating systems (Linux and Windows),
Applications frameworks like Java, Ruby or PHP
Containers management
Agile methodology

Architecture

Knowledge of API Management tools such as Layer7, MuleSoft, Apigee, etc
Knowledge in Cloud API gateways such as Azure API Gateway and AWS API Gateways
Knowledge of Infrastructure and Application Architecture
knowledge in Cloud and Application Hosting Architecture

Compliance mindset:

Sox, GxP, FDA
Security management

Innovation mindset
Communication

networking and communication skills
Fluent in English

Formal Education And Experience Required:

Graduate in IS technologies
7 years of experience in architecture and design
Proven experience in the API Infrastructure architecture and development
Solid networking and leadership skills

Major Challenges/Problems (to be addressed in the coming 6-12 months)

Build an efficient API architecture simplifying the existed one, involving all components of it (architecture, roadmap, best practices, indicators, …)
Build a trustful relationship with all stakeholders (internal and external to Digital tech)
Innovate based in the market challenges to bring additional value for the business
Open mindset to follow the market

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