High Performance Computing Lead

About the Digital R&D Data Products team

We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions. 

Sanofi has recently embarked on an ambitious digital transformation program. The Digital R&D Data Product team is a central part of this transformation journey, leading the acceleration of the digitalization of R&D data landscape by building state-of-the-art Data fabric and delivering AI-powered Data Products across R&D functions.

About Growing with us

In this role, you will develop globally scalable solutions that are needed by Sanofi’s Digital R&D Data products, empowering AI and ML initiatives to generate value across the R&D Value Chain, specifically:

• Participate in business research, including surveys, workshops, and leading user interviews, to support the product owner in exploring new opportunities. 
• Collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams to understand computational requirements and design tailored HPC solutions.
• Lead, coordinate activities and coach more junior HPC engineer profile
• Architect, deploy, and manage HPC clusters across *Nix/Linux environments, both on-premises and in the AWS Cloud.
• Leverage your familiarity with job schedulers, or others to ensure efficient workload distribution.
• Expertise in server provisioning, configuration, and performance tuning for optimal resource utilization and scalability.
• Decompose user stories into tasks, estimate story points, and ensure timely updates in Jira. 
• Develop and maintain robust scripting solutions to automate tasks and streamline workflows.
• Seamlessly integrate and optimize scientific applications within the HPC environment, focusing on performance and resource allocation.
• Proficiently handle DevOps tools and version control systems to ensure efficient collaborative development practices
• Write required documentation and follow the validation process with QA/quality experts. 
• Support QA during SIT/UAT phases, escalating issues, risks, and identifying decisions needed. 
• Contribute to the entire application lifecycle. 
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, extensibility, etc. 
• Conduct peer reviews for quality, consistency, and rigor for production level solution
• Actively contribute to Digital HPC community and define leading practices and frameworks
• Remain up to date on the company’s standards, industry practices and emerging technologies 

About you

Key Functional Requirements & Qualifications:

• Experience working cross-functional teams to solve complex computing problems 
• Demonstrated ability to learn new data & computing technologies in short amount of time
• Able to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and manage multiple priorities  
• Strong technical analysis and problem-solving skills related to data and technology solutions
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate ideas, concepts and solutions to peers and leaders
• Pragmatic and capable of solving complex issues, with technical intuition and attention to detail  
• Service-oriented, flexible, and approachable team player 
• Fluent in English (Other languages a plus)
• Experience with pharmaceutical/healthcare industry business processes a plus

Key Technical Requirements & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 + year of experience in architecting, deploying, and managing HPC clusters for optimal performance.
• Familiarity with job schedulers and workload management systems (such as Sun Grid Engine, SLURM or LFS)
• AWS Cloud certification, showcasing your expertise in utilizing cloud resources effectively.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, R, and bash for automation and tool development.
• Strong understanding of scientific applications management (molecular modeling, design, clustering, structural biology…), optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in DevOps tools and version control systems (Git/GitHub or equivalent).
• Solid grasp of storage protocols and network fundamentals. (TCP/IP, DNS, firewall routing, VLANs. NAS/SAN, NFS/CIFS, AWS EFS/Lustre or HDFS)
• Optional: Familiarity with NGS processing and analysis for genomics research.
• Optional: Knowledge of ML/AI management tools like mlflow.
• Optional: Proficiency in other programming languages such as Java or C++.

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, disability, or gender identity 
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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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