Senior Data Engineer at Wakam

🧰 Who We Are Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 80 partners. We provide most of our insurance products through APIs and host white-label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform. With a footprint spanning 32 countries, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance. Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to enabling transparent and impactful insurance. 🚀 About the Team You will join the Data Platform team within Wakam’s Data Office. The team is at the core of Wakam’s data ecosystem and is responsible for building a reliable, scalable, and high-performing platform that supports business use cases, analytics, and product innovation. Working in an Azure and Snowflake ecosystem, the team approaches data with strong software engineering practices, a DevSecOps mindset, and an Agile / Product way of working. 🎯 Your Mission To support Wakam’s strong growth, we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who is passionate about technical excellence, treats data engineering with the discipline of software development, and enjoys building in an Agile environment with a strong Product mindset. As part of the Data Platform team, you will contribute to the scoping, design, and development of functional and technical enhancements to the platform, helping us manage our end-to-end data flows in a robust, scalable, and maintainable way. ✏️ Your Responsibilities Data Pipeline Design & Development You will design, specify, develop, and document data pipelines for extraction, loading, and transformation using technologies such as Python, SQL / dbt on Snowflake, and orchestration tools such as Prefect. You will work within a DevSecOps build-and-run approach, ensuring our end-to-end data platform is reliable and scalable. Agile Delivery & Product Collaboration You will work in an Agile setup, closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts, translating business needs into technical implementation. This includes breaking down user stories into tasks, estimating complexity and effort, contributing to delivery planning, and supporting UAT when needed. Quality, Performance & Engineering Best Practices You will ensure the quality and performance of developments by implementing automated testing, continuous deployment strategies, and robust engineering standards. You will also help define and enforce best practices across the team. Continuous Improvement & Innovation You will proactively suggest improvements to strengthen the Data Platform, contribute to Proofs of Concept as part of R&D initiatives, and take part in technology watch and knowledge sharing with peers. 🧠 What You Bring You have at least large experience in a similar role and have already worked in a Modern Data Stack environment on a Data Platform. You bring strong hands-on skills in: • Python, including libraries such as pandas, pySpark, Great Expectations • SQL, with strong transformation capabilities; experience with dbt is a plus • Snowflake • Orchestration tools such as Prefect • Software development practices such as Git, Clean Code, automated testing, REST APIs • DevOps concepts and tools including CI/CD, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes You are also comfortable working in English in a professional context, both written and spoken. ✨ Who You Are You are proactive, creative, and solution-oriented, with a strong focus on the quality, reliability, and performance of what you build. You are passionate about your craft, eager to share your experience, and driven by continuous learning and improvement. You are recognised for your commitment, your engagement, and your ability to work effectively with others in a collaborative environment. ✨ 🤖 AI & Digital Mindset At Wakam, data engineering is deeply connected to automation, platform thinking, and innovation. In this role, you will be encouraged to build reusable, robust, and scalable data products, and to explore how modern tooling and AI-assisted practices can improve engineering quality, observability, and delivery speed. 🌟 Why Join Wakam? Joining Wakam as a Senior Data Engineer means joining a company where data is strategic, where engineering standards matter, and where you can have a direct impact on a growing platform in a regulated and innovative environment. You will work on meaningful technical challenges, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, and help shape the future of Wakam’s data capabilities. 🏆 Hiring Process Our hiring process is designed to be clear, selective, and respectful of your time: • Interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager • Functional and Technical interview with our Data Platform Team Lead • People interview with our HRBP • Final interview with our VP Data AI-Assisted Interview Process Policy | Notion More About Us Check out our website to learn about the 11 cultural markers that make Wakam truly special! If you're adventurous, impact-driven, and ready to shape the future of insurance, we'd love to meet you! 💫 What Makes Us Unique: • True remote work flexibility with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program - yes, we even have a teammate working from a sailboat! ⛵ • Flat hierarchical system promoting direct impact and autonomy 🚀 • Monthly Free.day: dedicated time for personal growth and skills development 📚 • Lunch voucher with Swile card • A meaningful company: we became a Mission-driven company in March 2021 • Work alongside passionate experts: who will share their knowledge and help you develop and grow in your career. At Wakam, our "Free to Impact" culture is built on four essential pillars that shape everything we do : 🗣️ Communication & Knowledge Management • Foster transparent collaboration across our flat organizational structure • Share knowledge freely in our highly collaborative environment • Contribute to our collective intelligence through open dialogue 🔍 Curiosity • Embrace our monthly Free.day for learning and skills sponsorship • Think big and challenge conventional insurance norms • Stay eager to learn and explore new possibilities 🔄 Continuous Improvement • Take initiative to transform the insurance industry • Turn challenges into opportunities for innovation • Constantly evolve our ways of working 🎯 Outcome Oriented • Focus on impact rather than hierarchy • Drive results through clear objectives and autonomy • Transform bold ideas into concrete solutions At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. 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