Head of Solutions Engineering

Job Title: Head of Solutions Engineering

Location: Cambridge, MA, Morristown, NJ

About This Role

Sanofi is building the pharmaceutical industry's first AI-powered operating system—and we need a Head of Solutions Engineering (a Technology Principle) to make it happen. You'll lead a specialized team of 5-7 solution engineers while partnering directly with our Agentic AI core team to accelerate cloud transformation, modernize API frameworks, and dramatically improve infrastructure reliability across our global pharmaceutical operations.

This isn't a traditional technology role. You'll build and lead a cross-functional team with full hiring authority while maintaining the technical depth to challenge specialists and drive architectural coherence. Your decisions will impact 130K+ users, 21,000 hosts, 4,000 databases, and 5,000 applications supporting life-saving medicine development worldwide.

Reporting Structure: Direct report to Global Head of Digital Technology with dotted line to Enterprise Architecture
Location: Based in one of following sites: Morristown, NJ, Cambridge, MA (Hybrid work schedule)

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

What You'll Lead

Build Your Technical Dream Team

• Recruit 5-7 specialized solution engineers across Cloud, API/Integration, Database, Network, and Observability

• Establish cross-domain collaboration frameworks that eliminate technical silos

• Drive professional development and career growth for high-performing technical talent

• Lead through influence and technical credibility in a matrix organization

Enable AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Innovation

• Partner with Agentic AI core team to design infrastructure supporting intelligent automation

• Architect cloud-native solutions optimized for AI/ML workloads with pharmaceutical compliance

• Establish real-time data pipelines enabling AI-powered drug discovery and manufacturing

• Implement API frameworks supporting agent-to-agent communication and automated decision-making

Accelerate Critical Technology Transformations

• Cloud Transformation: Lead hybrid cloud migration with AWS/Azure governance and FinOps

• API Modernization: Design an enterprise API strategy enabling seamless pharmaceutical data flows

• Database Evolution: Modernize data architecture supporting AI/ML analytics and regulatory compliance

• Observability & SRE: Implement monitoring platforms targeting 50% incident reduction, 70% MTTR improvement

• Network Security: Deploy a zero-trust architecture across global pharmaceutical operations

Drive Strategic Technology Governance

• Co-develop enterprise standards with Enterprise Architecture, balancing innovation and compliance

• Guide technology evaluation and vendor strategies for pharmaceutical-scale implementations

• Establish architectural decision frameworks, ensuring consistency across global operations

• Integrate GxP, SOX, and pharmaceutical regulatory requirements into all technology practices

What You Bring

Required Experience

• 15+ years enterprise technology leadership including 5+ years leading technical teams with hiring authority

• Deep expertise across 3+ domains: Cloud Architecture, API/Integration, Database, Network, and Observability

• Large-scale transformation leadership in organizations with 10,000+ users

• Regulated industry experience with GxP, SOX, HIPAA, or equivalent compliance frameworks

• AI/ML infrastructure experience, including data pipelines and cloud-native ML platforms

• Multi-platform integration and strategic technology planning at enterprise scale

• Travel: 30% domestic and international travel required for global team collaboration and stakeholder engagement

• Language: Fluid in English

Highly Valued Experience

• Agentic AI or intelligent automation platform implementation

• Multi-cloud expertise (AWS/Azure) with FinOps and governance

• Site Reliability Engineering with observability platform implementation

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