Data Engineer P&C

SCOR Group; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SCOR Group is seeking a Data Engineer Team Lead to guide a data engineering team in Paris, delivering robust data pipelines and APIs while ensuring best practices across IT and Data products.

You will document artefacts, participate in workshops, and drive tests, controls, and collaboration to support both transactional and analytical needs in an international reinsurer environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a data engineer with data pipelines experience.
• Experience in agile projects (Scrum/Kanban).
• Databricks and/or Palantir Foundry a strong plus.
• Insurance/financial services knowledge a plus.
• Proficient in Python, PySpark and SQL; data pipelines best practices.
• CI/CD, Git workflows, REST API, and Power BI knowledge would help.

Responsibilities

• Lead a data engineering team to build, test and maintain data artefacts.
• Document data artefacts and ensure best-practice adoption.
• Collaborate across squads, participate in workshops and rituals.
• Deliver trust-worthy data pipelines supporting transactional and analytical needs.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

PySpark

SQL

CI/CD

REST API

Power BI

Problem solving

Team leadership

Agile / Scrum

Tools

Databricks

Palantir Foundry

Git workflows

Job description

We are seeking a Data Engineer Team Lead to join our dynamic Tech team. The ideal candidate is an inspirational team lead, problem-solving oriented with strong analytical thinking. You will be leading a data engineering team to support the development of data pipelines amongst our IT and Data products and act as a local coordinator to ensure that our central best practices are applied.

Responsibilities

Under the responsibility of a Lead Data Engineer, your mission will be to:

Build, deliver, test, maintain data artefacts such as data pipelines & services (API) to serve data distribution while following standard best practices.

Document data artefacts (code, diagrams, wiki-like documentation) to secure the comprehensiveness of your work.

Collaborate within and outside your squad by partipipating to workshops or rituals (dailys, sprint reviews, design sessions)

• Supportthe delivery of trust-worthy data pipelines that serve both transactional and analytical needs, by implementing adequate tests and controls.

Qualifications

Required experience & competencies

• +3years of experienceas a data engineer, data oriented mindset
• Proven experience in development and maintenance of data pipelines, preferably in agile projects (Scrum and/or Kanban)
• Proven experience with Databricks and/or Palantir Foundry is a strong plus
• Experience in (Re)insurance industry and / or Financial Services is a plus
• Good level in Python, Pyspark and SQL, ability to develop data pipelines under various platform using good practices such as parallelization, distributing programing techniques, decisional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, change data capture management...
• Good knowledge of CI / CD pipelines and Gitflows best practices is a strong plus
• Knowledge of REST API development is a plus
• Knowledge of reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) is a plus
• Strong analytical thinking, rigorous mindset solution-oriented and forceof proposal
• Team player, commitment, curiosity, interest to challenge
• Capacity to navigate in an internationalenvironment

Technical Skills:

• Good level in Python, Pyspark and SQL, ability to develop data pipelines under various platform using good practices such as parallelization, distributing programing techniques, decisional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, change data capture management...
• Good knowledge of CI / CD pipelines and Gitflows best practices is a strong plus
• Knowledge of REST API development is a plus
• Knowledge of reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) is a plus

Behavioral & Management Skills:

• Strong analytical thinking, rigorous mindset solution-oriented and forceof proposal
• Team player, commitment, curiosity, interest to challenge
• Capacity to navigate in an internationalenvironment
• Communication, ability to speak to a wide community of stakeholders (business, data, IT)
• Job Category Data Science and Business Intelligence
• Posting Date 08/19/2026, 01:57 PM

About Us

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.