Data Engineer

Data Engineer at AXA Partners

Data is a key part of AXA’s journey “from Payer to Partner” and its transformation to a Data Driven company. To succeed in this journey, AXA Partners Data Strategy has been organised around 6 pillars: Enable Business initiatives, Protect Data, Organize and Govern initiatives, Manage Data, Empower People on Data, Deliver and operate Data Platforms.

Data Engineering is therefore the cornerstone of the data transformation journey, ensuring strong IT Data capabilities foundations, implementing sustainable Data Operations with high level of service delivery and enabling any analytical initiatives, to provide at the end business value across AXA Partners.

AXA Partners has defined a decentralized operating model for data appointing data teams in BUs and geographies to be responsible for the proper deployment of data strategy closer to business owners. A Central Data Office manages the Data Platforms, Big Data & Analytics frameworks, standards and guidelines.

As a Data Engineer, part of a Data Team, your main mission is to maintain and enhance the operationality of the Data Team Assets or components at the right-level to ensure that the Data Team Strategy’s ambitions can be met and customers are served with the right level of quality.

Your second mission, as a Data Ops, is to implement and enhance the current production data flows of the Datalake (from extraction to business actionable consumption).

Your third mission, is to support, upskill and advise on processes or technical tasks, other Data Fellows of your Data Team in the achievements of their own data jobs.

You will be part of the overall Data Partners community, and a key actor of the Data Engineer Network.

What You’ll Be Doing

• In relation with Data Providers (source owners) and Data consumers (analysts, scientists etc.), make sure that all relevant data is easily accessible, industrialized and documented in the Big Data environments, whatever the complexity of transformations or large variety of data sources.
• Take part in developing, enhancing and maintaining data applications in Data platforms.
• Liaise with the community of people involved in the extraction, integration, structuration and valorization of data (IT Owners, Data Teams, Business analysts and specialists such as Data Scientists).
• Take part in improving and deploy data engineering standards, procedures, processes and operational guidelines around target data components managed by Central framework.
• Contribution to data road map definition, in coordination with other teams/customers.
• Interact with data scientists, analysts and business to define data sourcing strategy regarding the use-case.
• Manage interactions with data providers or other data engineers of other data teams for data lake project and BAU tasks.
• Support to other data fellows: technical demonstrations, UAT, training, expertise.
• Share with Central and community for data assets evolution.
• Take part in the strategic decisions of target data components with other of the Data Family.
• Development and automation of ingestion flows, data curation and access layers.
• Define solution urbanizations and take part in the development and deployment of applications following central standard and guidelines.
• Contribute to the improvement of standards and datalake processes for the Data Family.
• Design, develop, test, promote and industrialize data ingestion flows, datamarts and core target data components.
• Implement tools and end-to-end monitoring to ensure high availability of production data processing, data quality and reliability.
• Maintenance of data treatments in the Lake.
• Perform BAU and report regularly on this activity.
• Solve issues and problems.
• Support other technical data experts of your data team (data analysts etc.) or data end users in the use of data lake, applications or current platform assets.

What You’ll Bring

Technical/ Functional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Familiarity with the Big Data stack in cloud environment (ADLS, Databricks, ADF, Azure DevOps etc.).
• Very solid background on working with SQL Databases and Datawarehouses.
• Very good understanding of Spark processes.
• Fluent in multiple development languages (SQL and Python are a must).
• Good understanding of the software development process (git, CI/CD etc.).
• Good knowledge about BI systems (Spotfire or Power BI).
• BI skills are a plus.
• Entrepreneurial, team and can-do spirit, able to work unsupervised and with problem-solving skills, constantly striving for effective solutions.
• Creativity, innovation mindset and ability to correctly take into account technologies low stacks.
• Customer-centric with quick reactivity on issues or changing requirements to deliver high-level of service.
• Working with Agile mindset in an international, multicultural and complex environment (English is mandatory).

Experience

• Degree in IT development with Big Data major or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 2-year experience in production Big Data environment (build & run), with a proven expertise in data engineering/analytics projects, ideally in major and multi-cultural organizations with large-scale data.
• Fluent English, French or Dutch is a plus (with willingness to learn).
• Experience in Insurance/Assistance would be appreciated.

What We Offer

At AXA Partners, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive salary.
• Hybrid working.
• 35 days holidays.
• Cafeteria plan.
• Performance Bonus.
• Meal Voucher.
• Hospitalisation & "ambulatoire" Insurances.

Who We Are

We’re AXA Partners, experts at designing and delivering assistance solutions and specialised insurance, credit, and lifestyle protection – with and for our partners worldwide. What sets us apart? The expertise and passion of our 8,500+ people, and a strong network of over 55,000 professionals all over the world. Powered by them and our sector-leading technology, we continuously evolve, adapt and thrive – offering solutions and services that make sure we’re always at people’s side, no matter what. Helping others is our passion. Combining the best digital technology with our warm, human touch, we’re always looking at new ways to offer seamless and reassuring experiences when it really matters.

Join a company that helps protect the forests! At AXA Partners, we plant a tree for every new recruit (with a permanent contract).

Key skills/competency

• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
• Azure Data Factory
• Databricks
• SQL
• Python
• Apache Spark
• Data Warehousing
• CI/CD
• Data Governance