Lead Data Engineer

Short Description

At SCOR, we combine the Art and Science of risk to help build more resilient societies. Data is at the heart of our mission. Within our Tech, Data & AI organization, we are looking for a Lead Data Engineer in Group Functions Data (e.g., HR, procurement data) who lives data engineering, leads with impact, and thinks ahead to the future of data and AI.

This role is for a senior data engineering leader who owns complex Group Functinos Data Foundation, our trusted base layer where data is collected, standardized, governed, and made ready for analytics, end to end, understands cross-functional business processes across Group Functions (e.g. HR, Legal, Procurement), and sets the bar for engineering excellence on modern data platforms such as Databricks and Palantir Foundry and alike.

Job Summary

• We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer for the Corporate Data domain to join our Tech, Data & AI team. The successful candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep data engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and a solid understanding of corporate data domains and processes in a complex environment such as reinsurance.
• You will be responsible for leading data engineering activities for Corporate Data, ensuring the robustness, scalability, and quality of data pipelines and analytical datasets supporting corporate functions and enterprise-wide reporting. Beyond delivery, you will help shape how data engineering evolves at SCOR, including its role in enabling AI driven use cases and self-service analytics.
• This position is not a generic software engineering role: it requires strong ownership of data flows, data models, and analytics ready datasets that directly support corporate reporting, group-level KPIs, management decision making, and regulatory requirements.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Under the responsibility of the Head of Data Engineering, your mission will be to:

1. Lead data engineering activities within the Data Foundation of the Group Function Data domain, supervising, coordinating, and planning your team’s work in line with business priorities across Group Functions.
2. Own end to end Group Functions Data pipelines, from ingestion to consumption, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost-efficient performance.
3. Provide hands on technical leadership by reviewing data pipelines and data services, enforcing state of the art engineering practices.
4. Design and optimize large scale data processing solutions supporting corporate use cases, addressing challenges such as data integration, harmonization, and cross-domain consistency.
5. Maintain architectural ownership of corporate data pipelines and datasets, enforcing clear documentation including code, lineage, data definitions, and release notes.
6. Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across Group Functions Data datasets, contributing to SCOR’s Single Version of Truth and federated governance model.
7. Coach and mentor data engineers, supporting skill development, autonomy, and a culture of engineering excellence.
8. Collaborate closely with business stakeholders across HR, Legal, Procurement, and other group functions, as well as Data Foundation, Governance, and Platform teams.
9. Contribute to the definition and evolution of enterprise data standards, models, and engineering best practices.
10. Actively contribute to the evolution of data engineering practices, particularly in the context of AI ready data platforms and self-service analytics.

Qualifications

Required experience & competencies

• +7 years of experience as a Data Engineer with a strong data-centric mindset
• +3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Proven track record delivering and operating production-grade data pipelines in an agile environment
• Proven experience with Palantir Foundry and / or Databricks is a strong plus
• Experience in (Re)insurance, financial Services, or other complex data-intensive industries is a strong plus

Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, PySpark and SQL.
• Proven experience with Databricks and/or Palantir Foundry (strongly preferred).
• Solid understanding of distributing data processing, CDC, slowly changing dimensions, and data modeling.
• Strong exposure to CI / CD pipelines, Gitflows, and production best practices.
• Good knowledge of REST API

Behavioral & Management Skills:

• Software engineering first mindset with solid experience in data.
• Curiosity and interest in learning the insurance/reinsurance business.
• Strong analytical thinking, structure problem solving, and ownership attitude.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams in a matrix, international environment.

Required Education

• Computer or data science, software or computer engineering, applied math, physics, statistics, or a related field or equivalent experience

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