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Reference No. R2677274

Position Title: System Data Analyst

Duration: Fixed-Term - Contract, End Date: December 31, 2026

Department: Digital IA Flu Program

Location: Sanofi Pasteur Limited, Toronto

Sanofi Pasteur: The world’s leading vaccine company

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to human vaccines. Our driving goal is to protect people from infectious diseases by creating safe and effective vaccines. Our company distributes more than 1 billion doses of vaccine each year, making it possible to vaccinate more than 500 million people across the globe. Sanofi Pasteur offers the broadest range of vaccines in the world, providing protection against 20 bacterial and viral diseases.

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe.

Position Summary:

Sanofi has recently embarked on an ambitious and strategic project to have pandemic readiness capability at the Toronto site. This project allows full internalization of NF Flu syringe footprint and opportunity to leverage this flexible FFIP capacity for anticipated IA needs, with lo deprecation and operating cost offset by grant and readiness fee.

The Digital stream of the project will deploy a number of shop floor systems, including the implementation and validation of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Data Historian System (DHS) with interfaces to a plant wide control systems and small equipment.

You are a results oriented System Data Analyst (with the focus in AVEVA/Osisoft PI Data Historian and OEE) with keen analytical, problem-solving and prioritization skills, with technical computer background. You enjoy partnering with stakeholders to define requirements and to educate users. You are a collaborative self-starter, who sees see challenges as opportunities, and adapts energetically to change within a project.

Join us in a cross functional team to bring a fully digitally enabled vaccine manufacturing facility to fruition in a fulfilling and meaningful work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

The System Data Analyst will be directly accountable and responsible for the digital systems and interfaces validation activities, such as:

• Collaboration with Digital and Business stakeholders to determine high-level requirements and capture business and end user needs; understand the processes, data use, analysis and quality; review deliverables, confirm expectations, and address issues/concerns.

• Assessment of competing global Digital and/or user demands, and prioritization of activity based on business impact and Digital strategy.

• Communication of solution tradeoffs to business stakeholders to frame and influence project decisions.

• Analysis of communications between systems (on premise, WAN, or cloud) through a complex infrastructure.

• Analysis of data and facts to identify issues/concerns, using judgment to form conclusions that may challenge conventional wisdom and leverage opportunities to increase efficiency and/or value.

• Authoring of key validation documents, such as Validation Plans, Architecture Design, Functional Specifications, Test Strategies and Test Designs, Test Cases, and Reports.

• Lead the technical experts throughout the lifecycle of development and qualification of benchtop instrument interfaces, and system interfaces.

• Support to infrastructure commissioning and configuration and deployment of workstations.

• Qualifying data points from source system into PI Data Historian

• Extracting data from PI Data Historian to other destination applications (via APIs).

• Ensure implementation and changes meet all controls to address applicable quality, regulatory (GxP, SOX, etc.) and cybersecurity requirements. You will ensure compliance with the architecture standards and guidelines and ensure the correct interface between applications under the scope of responsibility.

Key Requirements:

• An Engineering or Computer Science degree and/or 4+ years of experience in an IT or automation environment, specifically with system integrations, manufacturing data analysis, and shop floor (manufacturing) application support.

• Proven analytical, prioritization, problem-solving, risk analysis and decision-making skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and eagerness to explore and learn in positive and fast paced team environment are required.

• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders (customers, end users, sponsor, vendor, project team, extended team, etc) and to develop relationships, identify and define requirements/gaps, and educate users.

• A good understanding of the IT Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC) and Project Management Methodologies (both waterfall and agile).

• Capable of performing technical support and troubleshooting hardware/software/network issues independently and/or collaboratively with remote support groups.

• Ability to develop complex SQL queries for data analysis/extraction

• Experience with the following is advantageous:

  • Data Historian Systems (such as AVEVA/OSIsoft PI)

    • Tag Management

    • Asset Framework Development/Management

    • Event Frame Development/Management

  • System integration with OPC UA / DA

  • Performing gap and risk analysis for application upgrade

  • Automation, control systems, manufacturing execution systems (such as DeltaV and Werum PAS-X)

  • Database (MS SQL/Oracle 19c)

  • System interfaces design and development

  • Strong understanding of firewall and SCADA

  • OEE

  • SAP

  • ITIL

  • JIRA / Confluence

  • Pharmaceutical Serialization Regulatory Standards

  • Computerize System Validation

  • Project Management (with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies)

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Thank you in advance for your interest.

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