Lead Data Engineer
SCOR · Bucharest
Job Summary
We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer for the Corporate Data domain to join our Tech, Data & AI team. The successful candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep data engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and a solid understanding of corporate data domains and processes in a complex environment such as reinsurance.
You will be responsible for leading data engineering activities for Corporate Data, ensuring the robustness, scalability, and quality of data pipelines and analytical datasets supporting corporate functions and enterprise-wide reporting. Beyond delivery, you will help shape how data engineering evolves at SCOR, including its role in enabling AI driven use cases and self-service analytics.
This position is not a generic software engineering role: it requires strong ownership of data flows, data models, and analytics ready datasets that directly support corporate reporting, group-level KPIs, management decision making, and regulatory requirements.
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.
At SCOR, we combine the Art and Science of risk to help build more resilient societies. Data is at the heart of our mission. Within our Tech, Data & AI organization, we are looking for a Lead Data Engineer in Group Functions Data (e.g., HR, procurement data) who lives data engineering, leads with impact, and thinks ahead to the future of data and AI. This role is for a senior data engineering leader who owns complex Group Functinos Data Foundation, our trusted base layer where data is collected, standardized, governed, and made ready for analytics, end to end, understands cross-functional business processes across Group Functions (e.g. HR, Legal, Procurement), and sets the bar for engineering excellence on modern data platforms such as Databricks and Palantir Foundry and alike.