Geospatial Data Engineer

Job summary
Permanent contract
Paris
A few days at home
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 3 years
Education: Master's Degree
Skills & expertise
AWS
Python
GeoPandas

AXA Climate
AXA Climate

Interested in this job?

Questions and answers about the job

The position

Job description

Altitude

Altitude solution was launched in September 2022. It is three products, connected on one single data platform. It is enabling CSR/ESG teams to screen climate and nature related risks and opportunities within minutes, very easy to use, and fully automated.

  • Altitude Finance: dedicated for Infrastructure and Private Equity funds,

  • Altitude Industry: dedicated for corporates,

  • Altitude Agriculture: dedicated for food & Ag.

You can know more about all our products here: www.axa-altitude.com

The Data Team & You

The Data Team of Altitude is in charge of the whole chain of production of climate data services from developping state-of-the-art climate models and algorithms to putting in production scalable API to request this data.

Under the supervision of the Lead Data Engineer, you will deliver high-quality technical solutions :

  • Set in production the algorithms developed by the climatologists and data scientists of the team.

  • Develop the relevant features to customize the requests of the various available data products, in agreement with our customers need.

  • Ensure the performance and scalability of the algorithms set in production.

  • Set up robust and scalable data acquisition pipelines.

  • Ensure the monitoring and the execution of the data acquisition pipelines.


Preferred experience

Education:

  • Grandes Écoles d’ingénieurs (X, CentraleSupélec, École des Ponts, Mines, ENTPE, ENSTA, ENSAE…)

  • MSc in top French, European or International Universities (Paris-Saclay, Dauphine, Imperial College, ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne…)

  • Major in Computer Science

Background

  • Previous experience as a Data Engineer or Machine Learning Engineer with proven track record of building big data pipelines / setting models into production

  • Previous experience with AWS Cloud engineering

  • Previous experience in geospatial &/or climate related field is a +

Skills:

  • Strong skills in Computer Science as well as in Data Science/Statistics.

  • Strong skills in Python – familiar with geospatial data manipulation (geopandas, rasterio, etc).

  • Knowledge of GDAL

  • Pragmatic, Business & Solution-oriented.

  • Ability to work with various scientists and experts on various natural or physical subjects.

  • Demonstrated interests in climate and environmental issues.


Recruitment process

You will meet up with 4 different people of Altitude - split into 2 or 3 rounds :

  • Data Engineers &/or Data Scientists of Altitude Data Team

  • Head of Data

  • HR

One of the meeting with the data engineers will be dedicated to a live technical test.

Want to know more?

These job openings might interest you!

These companies are also recruiting for the position of “Data / Business Intelligence”.

  • Sweep

    Senior AI Engineer

    Sweep
    Sweep
    Permanent contract
    Paris
    A few days at home
    Salary: €65K to 75K
    Environment / Sustainable Development, SaaS / Cloud Services
    170 employees