Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

About the Job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we build trusted and loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our mission is to enable better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. 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 people who can shape the future of our business and help us on our journey to becoming the best fast-moving consumer healthcare company in and for the world.

This position reports to the Head of Data Architecture and modeling in the Consumer Healthcare business unit at Sanofi

• A cornerstone of CHC transformation in the coming years, the Senior Data Architect will create relationships across the enterprise that help to understand CHC’s business model, current data environment and needs, and how data drives success.

• This position will collaborate with multiple business functions to provide guidance in implementing the right data model and practices that meet their needs.

• S/he will closely work with business partners, stakeholders, and the data governance team to create a logical data model architecture for various data objects.

• S/he will work on modern data architecture techniques and cloud data technologies.

• The candidate must be able to work independently and collaboratively.

You will work with a diverse team of business analysts, data scientists, technical engineers, data architects, and project managers to deliver outcomes aligned with our business needs.

Main Responsibilities

The Senior Data Architect will be responsible for:

• Lead data architecture & modeling efforts within Snowflake, and related cloud data products, including the design of data structures and the identification of business transformation logic.

• Analyzing and translating business requirements into conceptual and detailed logical data models.

• Creating logical data models based on existing applications and databases.

• Responsible for the development of on-prem and/or cloud-native RDBMS, operational data store (ODS), data marts, and data lakes on target platforms (SQL/NoSQL).

• Working with business architects, data architects, and data stewards to capture business requirements in a Logical Data Model.

• Transform the logical representation of the model into a physical representation and work with database administrators to instantiate and manage the data.

• Contribute to the assessment of appropriate data platform(s) for solution efforts.

• Collaborate with the BI and Analytics teams on creating an optimized, reusable semantic model, complete with metadata and lineage information.

• Oversee and govern the expansion of existing data architecture and the optimization of data query performance via best practices.

• Define and govern data modeling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models.

• Optimize the model to ensure predictable performance.

• Maintain the metadata - describing the data model, its structure, and semantics.

About You

10 years or more experience in Data Architecture and Modeling. 5+ years’ experience in Snowflake

• Strong experience in Snowflake, and related cloud data products

• Good working knowledge of dbt ETL/ELT technologies

• Advanced SQL Skills

• Experience working in FMCG

• Experience in Data strategies and developing logical and physical data models on RDBMS, NoSQL, and Cloud native databases.

• Agile ways of working and large projects phased delivery. 

• Experience in Interfacing heterogeneous systems and data sources 

• Working knowledge of procuring data from SAP

Education

• Bachelor's degree

• TOGAF certification or similar Data Architecture education preferred

• Fluent in English

International program management skills

• Work with multicultural and multi-sourced teams

• Multi-country deployment, involving local stakeholders

• Cross-functional leadership and influencing

• Contracting and contract managing software vendors and system integrators

• Strategic development in a multi-dimensional and rapidly changing environment

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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