Job Title: Data Engineering Manager, Commercial US

• Location: Morristown, NJ

About the Job

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. A cornerstone of this roadmap is the acceleration of its data transformation and of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions, to accelerate R&D, manufacturing and commercial performance and bring better drugs and vaccines to patients faster, to improve health and save lives.

You are a hands-on data engineering leader with a strong background in building and operating data pipelines and platforms in complex enterprise environments. You bring a blend of technical depth, architectural thinking, and people leadership. You are comfortable guiding a team, partnering with stakeholders, and translating business needs into scalable and reliable data solutions.

You care about engineering quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. You have experience working across cross-functional teams and know how to balance delivery, governance, and long-term platform sustainability.

In this role, you will report directly to the Head of Data Engineering. You will provide architectural leadership and technical know-how across data pipeline construction, execution, and operations. You will work closely with teams across Data, Digital, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, Agile, and key business stakeholders. You will also have direct people management responsibilities and the opportunity to shape and grow your team.

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 Responsabilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers while fostering strong engineering practices, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Design, build, deploy, and support scalable data pipelines and data products that enable analytics, AI/ML, and commercial business use cases

• Lead discovery, solution design, and technical planning discussions with business, analytics, AI, and technology teams

• Manage team delivery, priorities, capacity planning, and execution across multiple concurrent data engineering initiatives

• Design, develop, test, and optimize scalable data engineering solutions and reusable data assets that support analytics, AI/ML, and business-critical workflows across global platforms

• Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to clarify ambiguous business needs, shape solution approaches, and translate requirements into scalable data engineering solutions

• Provide architectural and technical leadership across data pipeline orchestration, distributed processing, cloud-native platforms, and data integration patterns

• Drive operational excellence across production data assets, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, release management, and continuous improvement

• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, standardize, and optimize data engineering processes, reusable assets, and platform capabilities

• Collaborate within cross-functional agile teams and partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-quality data engineering solutions

• Contribute to and evolve data engineering standards, best practices, and community knowledge sharing across the organization

• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and modern data engineering practices to continuously improve platform capabilities and engineering effectiveness

About You

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform development, including 2+ years leading or managing engineering teams

• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating scalable data pipelines, data platforms, and distributed processing solutions using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Hadoop, or similar

• Strong experience with cloud-native data engineering and modern ETL/ELT solutions, preferably within Snowflake / AWS-based environments; Informatica/IICS experience preferred

• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills, with working knowledge of Python and scripting languages; Scala or Java is a plus

• Experience with batch, near real-time, and streaming data architectures, as well as modern data warehouse, lake, and lakehouse concepts including data mesh principles

• Strong understanding of data architecture, scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and operational support for enterprise-grade data platforms

• Demonstrated ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, identify underlying business needs, and translate them into scalable technical solutions and execution plans

• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions and communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences

• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams including analytics, AI/ML, product, infrastructure, security, governance, and business stakeholders

• Experience operating in agile delivery environments with strong understanding of software engineering practices, CI/CD, release management, testing, and operational support

• Experience leading engineering teams through delivery execution, prioritization, mentoring, performance management, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, STEM, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to haves

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or pharmaceutical industries

• Experience with Airflow, dbt or similar orchestration and transformation tooling

• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and commercial data domains such as omni-channel, pricing, customer engagement, or sales analytics

• Experience working with external vendors and offshore/onshore delivery models

Why Choose Us?

• 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.

• Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.

• Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably

• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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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.

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

$148.500,00 - $214.500,00

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.