Data Engineering Lead – R&D Platform & AI Pipelines

Pierre Fabre Laboratories; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit-sharing

Shareholding with matching

Health and provident insurance

RTT holidays + 25 personal holidays

Public transport participation

Job summary

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is seeking a Data Engineering Lead in Toulouse to drive a data-driven R&D ecosystem. You will lead an internal team, govern the data platform, and deliver trusted data products for Data Science and Biometry. The role combines leadership, technical ownership and hands-on delivery.

You will ensure scalable ingestion, transformation and data serving while enforcing security, quality and compliance. English fluency is required, French preferred, and hybrid work is allowed.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data engineering with ownership of production-grade cloud data platforms.
• Proven ability to lead and develop data engineers.
• Strong AWS experience and knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake or SageMaker.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, plus data modeling and ETL/ELT.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Engineering team and set priorities with stakeholders.
• Own the R&D data platform on AWS, ensuring reliable operation and evolution.
• Deliver curated data products for R&D and enable analytics, AI and scientific applications.
• Embed data quality, security and compliance by design across pipelines and storage.
• Shape the engineering roadmap and evaluate technologies across AWS and modern data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

SageMaker

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Orchestration

APIs

Distributed processing

Cloud storage

Data quality

Data lineage

Secure data access

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Automated testing

Monitoring

Incident management

Stakeholder management

Communication

English fluency

French valued

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/Data

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

SageMaker

Job description

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is seeking a Data Engineering Lead in Toulouse to drive a data-driven R&D ecosystem. You will lead an internal team, govern the data platform, and deliver trusted data products for Data Science and Biometry. The role combines leadership, technical ownership and hands-on delivery.

You will ensure scalable ingestion, transformation and data serving while enforcing security, quality and compliance. English fluency is required, French preferred, and hybrid work is allowed.