Digital Product Management, Cloud Foundations

Role Summary

Digital Product Management, Cloud Foundations – Cambridge, MA and Morristown, NJ. Join the digital engine driving Sanofi’s transformation where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. This role designs, maintains, and oversees cloud foundations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, leads the migration of legacy workloads to the cloud, and manages the teams responsible for reliability, scalability, and security across the cloud foundations.

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 strategies to optimize cloud spend for the cloud foundations.
  • Financial Governance: Work closely with the FinOps organization to ensure proper financial governance on the cloud foundation.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.
• 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

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required, Masters preferred
• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are a big plus.