Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Governance team. Data Governance at Doctolib ensures company-wide data is easily accessible, compliant, and trustworthy, while enabling advanced analytics and AI through robust governance foundations.
At Doctolib, we capitalize on innovation to improve the daily lives of more than 900,000 professional users and serve 90+ million patients across Europe. Because we are building tomorrow’s European reference for healthcare AI and that we must stay the best-in-class as regards data privacy, our team needs technical skills to scale already implemented policies.
This Data Engineer role will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing the implementation of governance standards along Doctolib’s data value chain. He/She will report to the Head of Data Governance. Together with its functional teammate, the Data Engineer will be the link between several interlocutors notably Data Engineers from other data teams, Data Product Managers, Feature Teams (main data producers), architects and legal officers.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with other engineers all over Doctolib’s data value chain to keep translating data governance standards into actionable and automated processes:
- Design and implement governance standards for our SaaS data sources
- Ensure that key metadata for governance (ownership, sensitivity, documentation, etc.) remain in our upcoming Unified Healthcare Data Platform (UHDP)
- Contribute to the implementation of semantic structure:
- Design and participate in the implementation of taxonomies and ontologies tailored to the medical context.
- Ensure the standardization and interoperability of metadata and data models.
- Technically lead our data catalog ‘Coalesce Catalog’ lifecycle (formerly known as CastorDoc), partnering with Coalesce and your functional counterpart within the team:
- Extend Catalog coverage by integrating new data sources, with a particular focus on the move from a monolith to a to a modular architecture.
- Support data lineage implementation for SaaS sources
- Design and implement ingestion monitoring capabilities to make sure that Catalog remains Doctolib’s single source of truth for data discovery
- Take a hands-on role managing Data Governance monitoring capabilities on Metabase by:
- Building and maintaining actionable dashboards
- Directly owning the data pipelines that power them.
Who you are
If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!
You could be our next team mate if you:
- Have at least 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally with experience in Data Architecture processes so as to work with Architects in Tech & Product domain.
- Proven experience on cloud providers - ideally GCP and Cloud AWS
- Eager to be hands on with our stack mastering SQL, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Github, dbt, Airflow, Metabase, BigQuery
- Are familiar with the healthcare industry
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, in both French and English
Now, it would be fantastic if you:
- Are familiar with Ruby on Rails or JavaScript
- Have good knowledge of data protection regulations (GDPR, healthcare data) and practices, notably pseudonymization / anonymization in practice
- Have experience or at least knowledge of data mesh in practice or federated data platforms
- Already worked in a fast-growing and rapidly changing environment
What we offer
- Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
- Parent Care Program: receive one additional month of leave on top of the legal parental leave
- Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
- For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
- Work from EU countries and the UK for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
- Work Council subsidy to refund part of sport club membership or creative class
- Up to 14 days of RTT
- A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
- Lunch voucher with Swile card
The interview process
- Recruiter Interview
- Behavioral Interview
- Business Case Interview
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Reference Check
If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!
At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!
The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you!
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