Position Reference no. R2848116Position title: Data ArchitectDepartment: Strategic ArchitectureLocation: Toronto, ONHybrid Work Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite is required.Responsibilities Lead data architecture for major business capabilities and cross‐domain initiatives, ensuring alignment with digital strategy and business objectives.Define and evolve the data architecture vision, standards, and roadmaps, including transitional and target architectures across domains.Design and oversee complex data solutions that ensure scalability, interoperability, performance, and compliance across platforms and systems.Develop and promote reusable architecture frameworks, reference architectures, and data patterns that drive consistency, simplification, and delivery acceleration.Lead technical due diligence and architecture evaluation for major data platform investments and technology selections.Champion modern data architecture practices and accelerate adoption of emerging data technologies and methodologies across teams.Communicate and socialize Data Mesh principles with technical and business stakeholders to support decentralized data ownership and cross‐domain collaboration.Act as a trusted advisor and mentor within the architecture community, partnering with senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and drive measurable outcomes such as improved performance, reduced technical debt, and cost efficiency.About You Experience: Leading the design and delivery of modern enterprise data architectures; translating business and technical requirements into scalable, end‐to‐end solutions; extensive experience across data engineering, data architecture, master and reference data management, data lakes and warehouses, analytics, and AI/ML platforms; delivering architectureblueprints, models,



and documentation; applying modern data architecture practices in complex or regulated environments such as healthcare or life sciences.Soft skills: Strategic thinker navigating complex and ambiguous challenges; strong communicator whoexplains complex architectural concepts to technical and business stakeholders; influence cross‐functional teams and engineering organizations without direct authority; mentor architectsand engineers; contribute to strong architecture community of practice.Technical skills: Designing scalable cloud‐based data architectures in enterprise environments, ideally using AWS; hands‐on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Informatica Cloud, and other enterprise data integration platforms; solid expertise in data modeling, schema design, taxonomy, interoperability, metadata management; knowledge of up-to-date data governance capabilities (quality, lineage, cataloging, observability, security, access management); implementing domain‐oriented data architecture practices such as Data Mesh; familiarity with APIs, REST, GraphQL for cross‐domain data sharing.Education: Bachelor's Degree plus 10 years of applicable experience (required); Master's plus 3 years of applicable experience (preferred); professional certifications in relevant technologies, cloud data platforms, or architecture frameworks (preferred).Languages: Fluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.Salary The salary range for this position is $144,100.00 – $208,166.66. Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.Equal Opportunity Sanofi is an equal‐opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Data Architect - Life Sciences - C$144,100 - C$208,166.7 A Year (Toronto)
🏢 Sanofi
📍 Toronto