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Technical Infrastructure Architect

Barcelona, Spain Permanent Date posted 28/05/2024
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Technical Infrastructure Architect

  • Location: Barcelona, Spain.
  • 50 % Remote working
  • Job type: Permanent, Full time.

About the job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”.

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”.

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.

Our Team

This role sits within the ERP and Corporate Functions team at Consumer Healthcare (CHC) Digital. We are a dynamic team passionate about accompanying Sanofi CHC through its most exciting and challenging journey as it seeks to become a fully carved in P&L within Sanofi.

We are a team composed of professionals that come from different backgrounds, both internal and external to Sanofi. We believe in our team’s mission, accountability, a team spirit supportive of each other and a profound respect for diversity.

We are seeking to construct a best in class digital organisation, where the ERP will be a solid and adaptive backbone of our systems and our supporting functions applications are innovation technology solutions that give our business the (digital) wings to fly everyday! Interested to know more? Contact  us!

Main responsibilities:

  • Design S/4 HANA platform architecture in cloud and on premise (infrastructure, application and technical)

  • Define and promote Sanofi CHC SAP architecture standards and strategies. Establish and maintain relationships with internal and external digital stakeholders, including project team members to facilitate effective communication and collaboration on SAP technical architecture best practices and procedures for implementation

  • Facilitate workshops with Sanofi CHC Digital Leads to define architecture needs. Participate in SAP project methodology development

  • Manage technical architecture analysis on S/4 HANA platform architecture working with S/4 HANA platform and SAP Cloud product leads, define roadmap to improve performance, platform availability

  • Bring continuous technical architectural recommendations for SAP products and integration roadmap

  • Work with SAP and Non-SAP Integration leads to advise on technical approach for all systems integrated with SAP products while also conducting due diligence and business assessments

  • Understands SAP’s product strategy and roadmap on all new technologies (S/4HANA, SAP BW/HANA, SAP BTP, SAC, …) including positioning of enabling and integrated tools. Evaluate new technical tools, products and functionalities

  • Provide expertise in the fields of architecture; sizing, application landscape

  • Develop and maintain SAP technical architecture metrics and reporting to monitor and report on project performance to senior management

  • Be owner of architecture improvement projects

  • Manage escalations, incidents, security breaches, audit points, support with respective digital stakeholders

About you

* Technical Background is required

Experience:

  • +8 years experience in SAP S/4 HANA, SAP NetWeaver architecture and related SAP products, as well as interfaces with other related systems and underlying database technologies

  • IT transformation experience in a global company, preferably in a FMCG and/or FMCH context managing SAP technical architecture and best practices for large, complex, integrated software systems

  • Experience/understanding with SAP Netweaver, ABAP, Fiori, Security, S/4 HANA, SAP BW/HANA, SAP BTP, SAP GTS, Gateway/OData services

  • Strong understanding of IAAS/SAAS/PAAS, Cloud, On-premise services

  • Good understanding and experience with DevOps and SecDevOps (generic tools or dedicated services of cloud platforms)

  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Code tools

  • Understanding of platform (on-premise/cloud) cyber-security topics (platform protection, identity & access, data and application security, monitoring) 

  • Understanding of SAP SLT, SAP Data Services solutions

  • Experience with multiple full life cycle SAP implementations, lifecycle projects

  • Understanding of the business requirements AS-IS to be able to provide the TO-BE technical architect, approach, or solution

  • Ability to evaluate risk and communicate it in a fact-based manner

  • Proficient in IT Governance. Can communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly, ability to defend the Core Model position

Soft skills:

  • Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment

  • Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset  

  • Team player, service-oriented

  • Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills

  • With leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven

  • Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage

Education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering

Languages:

  • Fluent spoken and written English

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