AXA Climate and Altitude

AXA Climate has 5 business unit to support its clients and partners, based on expertise: Insurance, Training, Consulting, SaaS Products, and Regen. Globally, we are a team of +200 climate experts, headquartered in Paris, spread over 5 continents and driven by the same desire for impact. Our purpose is to help Planet Earth become a true stakeholder of all companies, in the same way that employees, customers and shareholders are!

Altitude is the brand of our SaaS business. Our purpose is Adaptation. We build solutions, for decision makers, to enable climate and environmental adaptation. Our products are tailor-made for each persona: Private Equity firms, Agricultural cooperative, etc. We are +20 people working on it: product managers, designers, developers, business developers, etc.

We are autonomous within AXA Climate, but we work closely with the consulting teams dedicated to Financial Services and Agri sectors. We strongly believe that success is collective and we play as one team.

Altitude for Finance

Altitude for Finance is our first product, launched un September 2022. It is a platform dedicated for Infrastructure and Private Equity funds, enabling risk screening in pre-acquisition Due-Diligence, and enabling portfolio monitoring for reporting (such as TCFD). It is an innovative one-stop-shop for sustainability and investment teams, screening climate and nature-related risks and opportunities within minutes, very easy to use, and fully automated.

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

In 2023, we signed +35 clients, totalizing +170bn€ of Asset Under Management. To keep developing and growing our positive impact on the investment industry, we are recruiting.

Your Mission, as a Data Engineer Intern

You will join the Data Team, which focuses on geospatial data and risk analysis.

As part of our data quality improvement objective, your main goals will be:

• To define a framework for end-to-end testing of the data platform, based on recommendations from the science team, and normalized on the project’s infrastructure

• To benchmark geospatial data formats, allowing us to to discover means of improving the platform’s performance

Optionally, a benchmark of geospatial data formats would also allow us to discover means of improving the platform’s performance.

While working on those goals, you will be fully integrated in the daily life of the data team, and the ecosystem as a whole:

• Participate in the various rituals: daily, demo, retrospective, etc.

• Understand the component and architecture of the data platform

• Learn about geospatial data manipulation with Python

• Participate in tasks related to current feature developments

Our technical stack:

• Running on AWS

• Entirely serverless: Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, etc.

• Python (data) and TypeScript (front-end)

• Managed via Terraform

• You are graduating from an engineering school, with a focus on data engineering

• You have experience with Python and its ecosystem

• You are rigorous and detail-oriented

• You are proactive and autonomous in your work

• You are able to deliver project on time and with the right level of quality

• You have a strong interest for climate issues and challenges, and the science around it

• A first experience with geospatial formats is a plus

1. Initial call with Altitude CTO

2. 3 interviews with team members

3. Final decision