Digital Product Management, Cloud Foundations

Company: Sanofi
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: March 13, 2026

Job Description:

Job Title: Digital Product Management, Cloud Foundations Location: Cambridge, MA, Morristown, NJ About the Job Join the digital engine driving Sanofis transformation - where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here, youll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale. This role is responsible for the design, maintenance, and oversight of our cloud foundations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will lead the migration of legacy workloads to the cloud and manage the teams responsible for our infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security, providing comprehensive oversight of our digital transformation journey. About Sanofi: Were an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving peoples lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system and innovative pipeline enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve peoples lives. Main Responsibilities: Strategic Team Leadership & Management Team Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of Cloud product owners, Demand management and program support for internal cloud programs. Define career paths, conduct performance reviews, and foster a culture of continuous innovation. Resource Planning: Manage resource allocation for cloud initiatives, ensuring the team is staffed effectively to meet the demands of concurrent migration and foundational projects. Vendor & Contract Management: Oversee strategic vendor relationships and lead high-level contract negotiations for cloud services to ensure favorable terms and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between the Cloud Foundation team and executive leadership, Finance, and Business Units, translating technical metrics into tangible business value. Cloud Transformation & Migration Oversight Migration Strategy: Lead the planning and execution of large-scale cloud migration projects, defining the "6 Rs" strategy (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, etc.) for moving on-premise workloads to the cloud. Application Onboarding: Collaborate with business units to assess application portfolios and ensure they are onboarded to cloud environments efficiently, securely, and in compliance with regulatory standards. Transformation Roadmap: Collaborate cross-functionally with Enterprise Architecture and Engineering to define and drive the long-term cloud transformation roadmap, aligning infrastructure evolution with broader business goals. Change Management: Drive organizational change management efforts related to cloud adoption, acting as an ambassador to advocate for best practices and cloud-native behaviors across the enterprise. Cloud Foundation Architecture & Operations Multi-Cloud Orchestration: Implement and manage a robust cloud foundation architecture as designed by Enterprise Architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Operational Excellence: Direct the strategy for monitoring cloud performance, troubleshooting critical issues, and ensuring high availability and reliability for all production environments. Security & Compliance: Develop and enforce strict cloud access, security policies, and procedures, ensuring all environments remain compliant with pharmaceutical regulatory requirements. Automation Strategy: Lead initiatives to enhance automation (Infrastructure as Code) and scalability, leveraging tools like Terraform and Kubernetes to drive efficiency. FinOps & Financial Governance Cost Optimization Strategy: Develop and implement high-level strategies to optimize cloud spend for the cloud foundations,. Financial Accountability: Work closely with FinOps organization to ensure proper financial governance on the cloud foundation. About You Experience & Background Experience: Minimum 10 years of overall experience within infrastructure/cloud platforms and FinOps practices. Transformation Leadership: Proven track record leading large-scale cloud migrations and digital transformation programs in a complex enterprise environment. Industry Context: Experience in regulated industries such as pharma, manufacturing, or financial services with substantial cloud infrastructure is required. Technical Skills Cloud Expertise: Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud computing technologies and platforms. Automation: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Kubernetes). Data & Analytics: Proficiency in SQL and Python, and experience with visualization tools like PowerBI or BigQuery to drive data-driven decision-making. DevOps: Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. Key Competencies: Strategic Vision: Ability to continuously assess and enhance cloud infrastructure to align with business goals. Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiate contracts and present complex technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders. Project Management: Excellent project management skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Education & Certifications: Education: Bachelors degree required, Masters preferred Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are a big plus. Why Choose Us? Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether its through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact. Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks gender-neutral parental leave. Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law GD-SA LI-SA LI-Onsite vhd All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

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