AXA Climate and Altitude

AXA Climate has 4 business units to support its clients and partners, based on expertise: Insurance, Training, Consulting and SaaS Products. 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: 3 products strongly relying on data

Altitude ecosystem is built a bit like a startup studio. There are already 3 Altitude products: for investors, for corporates and for agriculture. We have +50 clients and are quickly growing. You can know all about our products here: www.axa-altitude.com

They are all running with our GIS Compute Engine modeling climate risks globally, our “Crown jewels”. For any geolocation in the world, we measure climate risks today and tomorrow for different scenarios (such as flood, heatwaves, wildfire, etc.). We also model biodiversity-related risks.

Your mission as a Data Lead

As a Data Lead in the Altitude team, your team will be responsible for the heart of Altitude software: climate models that provide a wide range of high-precision geospatial data about our planet.

These models come from either internal research, open data, or external providers. They are optimized and served in production for Altitude software.

Your mission includes:

• Leading a team of two data engineers, a climate scientist and a data product owner

• Working together with stakeholders to define the team roadmap based on key performance metrics

• Being responsible for the geospatial data infrastructure and its evolution ; review and actively contribute to the development of new climate indicators and measurements

• Leading the development of new climate risks models (for instance Avalanche, Tornados, Sand storms, etc…)

• Ensuring seamless scientific and technical collaboration of the team with the other scientists in AXA Climate, which includes 15 PhDs specializing in climatology, hydrology, geology, and other related fields

• Excellent scientific background: PhD or MSc in Data Science or Climate Science, or equivalent experience

• Strong interest for climate, sustainability and science

• Fantastic team player, with whom it is amazing to work alongside

• In-depth knowledge of geospatial concepts and ecosystem (PostGIS, GDAL), and of the data science Python ecosystem

• Track record of building and managing data pipelines and database systems in a cloud infrastructure following excellent engineering principles

• 5+ years of technical (research or engineering) experience

• At least 2 years of experience leading high-performing technical teams

Research shows that people from underrepresented groups might feel hesitant to apply for this job if they don’t match 100% of the job requirements listed. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

• Initial call

• 4 skills-based interviews (can be done within a week)

• Final decision