We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Governance team. Data Governance at Doctolib ensures company-wide data is easily accessible, compliant, and trustworthy, while enabling advanced analytics and AI through robust governance foundations. 

At Doctolib, we capitalize on innovation to improve the daily lives of more than 900,000 professional users and serve 90+ million patients across Europe. Because we are building tomorrow’s European reference for healthcare AI and that we must stay the best-in-class as regards data privacy, our team needs technical skills to scale already implemented policies.

This Data Engineer role will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the implementation of governance standards along Doctolib’s data value chain. He/She will report to the Head of Data Governance. Together with its functional teammate, the Data Engineer will be the link between several interlocutors notably Data Engineers from other data teams, Data Product Managers, Feature Teams (main data producers), architects and legal officers.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with engineers across Doctolib’s data value chain to implement and automate data governance standards.
• Design and enforce governance practices for SaaS data sources, ensuring compliance and consistency.
• Maintain and ensure the availability of key metadata (ownership, sensitivity, documentation, etc.) in the Unified Healthcare Data Platform (UHDP).
• Develop and implement medical-specific taxonomies and ontologies to structure data semantically.
• Promote standardization and interoperability for metadata and data models throughout the organization.
• Lead the technical development and lifecycle of the Coalesce Catalog, integrating new data sources and supporting the transition to a modular data architecture.
• Oversee the implementation of data lineage for SaaS sources and design monitoring to ensure catalog accuracy and reliability.
• Build, maintain, and own Metabase dashboards and the underlying data pipelines to monitor data governance effectively.

About our tech environment

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.
• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here and learn about our first AI hackathon here!

Who you are

If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!

You could be our next team mate if you:

• Have at least 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally with experience in Data Architecture processes so as to work with Architects in Tech & Product domain.
• Proven experience on cloud providers - ideally GCP and Cloud AWS
• Eager to be hands on with our stack mastering SQL, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Github, dbt, Airflow, Metabase, BigQuery
• Have good knowledge of data protection regulations (GDPR, healthcare data) and practices, notably pseudonymization / anonymization in practice
• Already worked in a fast-growing and rapidly changing environment 
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, in both French and English

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

• Are familiar with Ruby on Rails or JavaScript
• Are familiar with the healthcare industry
• Have experience or at least knowledge of data mesh in practice or federated data platform

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
• Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
• Up to 14 days of RTT
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• Lunch voucher with Swile card

The interview process 

• Recruiter Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• Business Case Interview
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Reference Check 

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you! 

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