App Integration Engineering Expert

• Job Title: App Integration Expert

• Location: Hyderabad

About the Team

We are an innovative global healthcare company driven by one purpose - to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. With a presence in over 100 countries, our teams are dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine and turning the impossible into the possible. We deliver life-changing treatments and life-saving vaccines to millions worldwide, while embedding sustainability and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do.

Sanofi has embarked on an ambitious digital transformation journey, with a strong focus on accelerating data-driven innovation and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to enhance R&D, manufacturing, and commercial performance. This transformation aims to bring breakthrough medicines and vaccines to patients faster and more efficiently.

Join our team as App Integration Expert and play a key role in advancing engineering excellence across Digital R&D. You’ll contribute to shaping Sanofi’s global digital future, collaborating closely within our expanding Hyderabad hub.

About you

You combine strong technical acumen with leadership maturity, capable of translating business vision into sustainable digital solutions. You thrive in Agile, cross-functional environments, and are passionate about continuous improvement, data integrity, and delivering measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, implementing, managing and securing APIs and support business project in their API journey, assessing the opportunities and simplifying the current architectures

• Manage the API Platform  end to end: support architecture CoE, design, setup, and management of the platform on-premises and cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and Tencent

• Managing an API lifecycle and contribute to the set of services and associated technologies across the Digital R&D Tower’s organization, as well as following the related application portfolio roadmap

• API platform maintenance: troubleshooting, engaging with technology provider, customization of the platform to suit Sanofi’s strategic goals

• Support the customers’ success with the onboarding, maintenance and decommission of new and existing API's 

• End to end delivery of API services (design, engineering, deployment, and operations including KPIs)

• Support and troubleshoot technical issues under stress context to fix unexpected downtimes and maximize uptime KPI

• Maintain the customers’ relationship and be the focal point for product service, technical and architectural guidance

• Ensure that the technology strategy of the Digital Tech organization has been aligned with the short-term and long-term business strategies.

• Provide the technical supervision and guidance for API Security, Capacity and Lifecycle management of the API management product

• Facilitate the transfer of knowhow, experiences, and good practices within the operational team and cross team

• Ensures quality and timely delivery of service to consumers

• Accountable for the performance, quality, security, efficiency, compliance aligned with legal and regulatory constraints, and consistent delivery of the API team services

• Provide input into annual and long-range or strategic planning exercise. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field

• 7+ years of experience in API development and management in hybrid platforms and multi cloud

• Experience in healthcare or life sciences domain is a plus

• Knowledge of networking concepts and implementation

• Understanding of microservices architectures with demonstrable experience in the design, build, and operations of microservices in a production environment using container technology (Docker)

• Demonstrated understanding of modern User & Access Management

• Demonstrated understanding in formulating strategies, implement end to end service with the lifecycle of the products, 

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

• Proficient in-service management and AGILE framework/tools

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

• Experience with ServiceNow or any other incident management tool is highly desirable.

Technical skills

• Knowledge in some of the leading API management solutions:

• Knowledge of API Management tools such as Kong, MuleSoft, Apigee, IBM etc preferable with certification

• Knowledge in Cloud API gateways such as Azure API Gateway and AWS API Gateways

• Knowledge of Infrastructure and Application Architecture

• Knowledge in Cloud and Application Hosting Architecture

• Good knowledge and experience around Infrastructure technologies (Solid knowledge in Cloud Azure, hosting platforms, API, …)

• Public and private clouds infrastructure and services i.e Azure and AWS. Azure and/or AWS Cloud Architect certification

• Legacy hosting platforms. LAN/WAN networking and security

• Operating systems (Linux and Windows)

• Excellent knowledge in Containers management (Openshift, AKS, EKS)

• Public and private clouds infrastructure and services i.e Azure, AWS

• Good knowledge of database management, admin and troubleshooting

• Compliance mindset:

• Sox, GxP, FDA

• Security management

Soft skills

• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate effectively with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management

• Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical people to enhance understanding and drive decisions that lead to positive outcomes.

• Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated

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, ability or gender identity.

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