Integration Platform Expert

About the job

As a Integration Platform Expert, you will take advantage of your prior experiences and possess a strong ability to design (architect), build (engineer), and maintain (run) integration platforms used across the Digital Teams by developing and implementing sound processes, procedures, and the necessary documentation to ensure that that each platform is maximized for the operational efficiency, availability and meets the technical and regulatory requirements for the Integration users.

The Integration Platform Expert is additionally responsible for ensuring all the platforms are kept up to date with the latest software and security. Your strong and broad technical background encompassing both cloud native and data center hosted solutions along with the underlying operating system, database, network, security and other various development and system integration principals and techniques will enhance your ability to be successful in this role.

This is a highly visible position, and you will be a key contributor to how we modernize our platforms and change how we think about the solutions we apply. To be successful, you must have a deep understanding of the file transfer capabilities, application integration patterns and principals. You will be a key member of the team and must be comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating with both technical and non-technical individuals across the organization. 

What you will be doing: 

•    Design, build, implement and maintain integration platforms critical to the Sanofi Digital Data Team.

•    Establish best practices for integration platforms performance, security and resilience to failure.

•    Continuously analyze the performance and features of the integration platforms enabling additional capacity and new features required for the business projects.

•    Gain an understanding of the current state of our integration platforms and then define future state architectures and execute the strategy.   

•    Design platforms using automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Shell for all phases of the solution’s lifecycle.

•    Develop and document best practices around the various integration platforms incorporating feedback from across the organization.

•    Ensure proper change management processes and procedures and regulatory and quality processes are followed.

•    Perform technical reviews of projects utilizing integration platforms to enforce standards and best practices of each platform and promote sound governance of its usage.

•    Both contribute to and develop various dashboards and reports to gain insights into the performance and utilization of the platforms to improve operational effectiveness, future needs, and governance.

•    Maintain a strong cross-functional relationship with the various project and operational teams, continually sharing new features, functionality, process improvements, lessons learned, and other best practices across the team.

•    Actively contribute to Digital Data Community.
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About you

•    Work Experience: 
•    5+ years of progressive experience working on integration.
•    2+ years with Axway Transfer CFT and/or Informatica Enterprise MFT and/or GoAnywhere and/or AWS Transfer Service and/or Seeburger.

•    Technical Skills:

•    Strong Managed File Transfer (MFT) capabilities. This position is responsible for designing and maintaining the existing file transfer system MFT product and modules such as Axway Transfer CFT, Informatica Enterprise MFT, GoAnywhere, AWS Transfer Service.

•    Knowledge of integration design patterns and data engineering best practices.

•    Experience with AWS data-related services such as EMR, Glue, S3, Lambda. 

•    Experience (and enjoyment) working with emerging technologies.

•    Experience with automation and devops capabilities such as Terraform, Ansible, GitHub.

•     Knowledge of Azure or GCP  is a plus
•    Minimum required skills:
•    Experience working with a variety of cross-functional teams 
•    Able to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and manage multiple priorities  
•    Pragmatic and capable of solving complex issues  
•    Service-oriented, flexible team player
•    Attention to detail & technical intuition 
•    Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills for executive-level communication and collaboration
•    Experience in the bio/pharmaceutical industry is a plus
•    Minimum preferred skills:
•    Strong Regulatory Experience (GxP, Sarbanes-Oxley, French Data Protection Act (FDPA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
•    Good knowledge of AWS/Cloud Computing (Knowledge of Azure or GCP a plus)
•    Experience (and enjoyment) working with emerging technologies
•    Education: 
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Science or Information Management with a focus on Engineering.  Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred. 

•    Language Requirements: Fluent in English
•    Physical Requirements: Not Applicable

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