Head of Software Engineering – eCommerce

Job title: Head of Software Engineering – eCommerce

About the job

Our Team:

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever. Join our Digital e-commerce team as Head of Delivery, and you can help make it happen.

Your job? Lead our team in a critical transformation from using external vendors to leading in house developers’ engineers & QA experts to implement & support a best-in-class front end & backend solution, implement excellent engineering standards, build amazing features & bring automation & agile WoW. Design, build & support a best-in-class global e-commerce product line, delivering a great B2B customer experience to 120k healthcare professionals worldwide & managing +7bn€ sales, with the product team.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. 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. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

• Providing technical & people leadership for several software engineering teams, capable of managing up to 50 team members.
• Deep technical understanding of modern architectures and frameworks
• In-depth experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement.
• Assist with practices and principles to ensure adoption across teams, along with measuring and maintaining maturity.
• A systematic problem-solving approach combined with strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and motivation.
• Manage vendors to ensure initiative delivery according to requirements and design.
• Help grow and develop our engineering culture.
• Drive the vision, strategy, and values of the Digital Ecommerce team.
• You build it, you run it.

About you

Experience:

• Recent experience with implementing large enterprise eCommerce (B2B or B2C) systems, leading in house development teams with latest engineering practices
• Experience with significant integration points between web-based user interfaces and back-end processes such as order management, warehouse management, financial and retail systems, ERP, payment services, and CRM
• Proficiency in cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong background in API design and development (REST, GraphQL) with emphasis on security and performance optimization
• Experience leading a group of developers with multiple layers, evaluating performance, and providing objective and actionable feedback
• Proven professional experience as a developer & solution architect
• Experience developing high-performance, highly available & scalable applications with a micro-services architecture and a deep understanding of observability
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices including infrastructure as code
• Proven experience with agile practices, software development principles and lifecycle, web development technologies/frameworks
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) and backend technologies (Node.js, Java, Python)
• Experience scaling systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Demonstrated ability to implement and maintain robust testing strategies (unit, integration, performance testing)
• Experience working with technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional, interdisciplinary environment, including strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with data modeling and database optimization (SQL and NoSQL)

Soft skills:

• People love to work for/with you.
• The ability to learn fast and have a passion for learning is essential.
• 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.
• Be passionate about improving people’s lives through the miracle of science at Sanofi.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. French or Spanish is a plus.
• Flexible, positive team player.

Technical skills:

• ECommerce solutions, ideally SAP e-commerce or SAP Hybris or SAP Commerce Cloud
• React.js JAVA Spring framework, JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular and Spartacus Frameworks. 
• Some of the key tech we use are GraphQL, Node.js, Java, Typescript, Next.js, and many components of the AWS stack: Lambda, Amplify, S3, RDS, SNS and many more of the core services.
• Integration technologies (SAP CPI, Tibco, Informatica Cloud, etc) & experience with SAP ECC, S/4 HANA a plus.

Education:

• MS in software engineering or computer science or equivalent

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, disability, or gender identity.

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

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, disability, or gender identity.

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

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.

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