Big Data Engineer (H/F)

Job description

The position is part of REV (Research, Engineering and Vision) having locations in Paris 17th (France), on the EPFL campus in Lausanne (Switzerland) and in San Francisco (USA). This new unit was created earlier in 2018 to contribute to a global strategic program of digital transformation and innovation to drive AXA towards becoming a tech-led company. It is not only an innovation unit but also, and above all, an engineering team helping AXA entities to “test and learn” their ideas leveraging emerging technologies and scale them across the group. We strongly believe in learning by doing and acknowledge we have the right to fail if we learn along the way. Our projects span from IT related topics, to computer vision, cognitive services, bots, drones and many other web/mobile initiatives. Our mission is to transform an idea into a first stage of execution. Once the feasibility and the value for users is confirmed, we scale it with the help of industrialization teams.
As Big Data Engineer, you are in charge of developing adhoc/reusable data processing components used by the AXA entities to prepare training of machine learning systems.

You interact with Product Owner, other data engineers, devops, customers. Your day to day work is in our Office in Paris. Occasional travelling depending on the project context.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

You are pragmatic, and your mastery of SQL allows you to move fast and efficiently.
Your knowledge of Hadoop and Big Data Ecosystem enable you to propose and argument solution to the other team members, such as Data Engineers, Devops, Data scientists.
Ideally you are a Scala developer with a good experience of spark-core.

You deliver source code / documentation / tests to be deployed to AWS EMR / Sagemaker.