AXA Climate and Altitude

AXA Climate has 5 business units 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 +25 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

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.

We launched in February 2024 Altitude Agriculture, and are planning the launch of a new product by end of the year.

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

We have signed +40 clients, and are planning to triple that in 2024. To keep developing and growing our positive impact on the investment industry, we are recruiting.

Your Mission, as a Data Engineer

Atlantis (Altitude data platform) is an internal product containing all our data and risk models. It is serving our different products through API.

As a data engineer, you will work on Atlantis and be in charge of:

• The design and implementation of new features with the aim of providing new scientific data to support Altitude application needs (for example adding new climate risk indicators in the datalake, in close connection with AXA Climate Scientists).

• The maintenance of the platform: bug fixes, quality improvements, performance improvements. Atlantis is screening 15k assets per months, worldwide. Our growth needs to be supported by continuous improvements.

• Quality and R&D. Your onboarding will provide you with a basic understanding of the science behind the data manipulated/processed by the platform.

In the day-to-day, you will work with Atlantis Tech Lead and Altitude CTO closely involved.
You will also collaborate with the other developers of other feature teams, the product managers, and the scientists.

In your first months, you will have the following objectives:

• Onboard yourself on the platform, code base and technical choices made until now

• Start working on simple features from the roadmap

In the medium/long term, we expect you to be:

• Comfortable with the codebase and making changes

• Efficient at implementing features and fixing bugs

• Suggesting, designing and implementing technical improvements for the platform, in particular around reliability and scalability

• Coming up with good solutions based on Altitude application requirements

For info, our technical stack:

• Running on AWS

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

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

• Managed via Terraform

• You have at least 3 years of professionnal experience as a data engineer

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

• You are rigorous and detail-oriented, putting quality first

• You are a problem-solver, seeking for pragmatic solutions to solve challenges.

• You are a team player, and communicate effectively with the other team members

• Your hardskills include: Software development (any language) and relevant best practices, and architecture : common database types, data flow, etc.

• You have experience with Python and its data-related ecosystem

• A first experience with geospatial data (GIS) is a plus

More importantly:

• You have a strong interest for climate, sustainability, and science

• You’re a fantastic team player, with whom it is cool to work alongside.

1. Initial call with Altitude CTO

2. Three skills-based interviews with team members, including a technical case

3. Final decision