Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering
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Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering
Regular Employment
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
About the Role
As an Underwriting Portfolio Engineer in the integrated Portfolio Strategy & Steering team, you will use advanced data, engineering, and analytical techniques to improve underwriting portfolio decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and enable effective portfolio steering.
You will work directly with underwriting portfolio managers and leaders to frame material business questions, analyze complex portfolio data, and build practical solutions in Palantir and other relevant platforms.
This is a hands-on delivery role across the full lifecycle: defining the problem, exploring data, building and deploying solutions, supporting adoption, and measuring impact.
Responsibilities
- Build underwriting-specific data products, analytical tools, and Palantir workflows that support portfolio planning, capacity setting, and steering.
- Translate material underwriting portfolio questions into practical analytics and reusable decision-support capabilities.
- Analyze performance, exposures, concentrations, dependencies, and portfolio dynamics to inform portfolio decisions.
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain robust solutions using reliable, decision-ready data from multiple sources.
- Work with users through delivery and adoption, measuring whether solutions improve the quality, speed, or consistency of decisions.
- Contribute to common engineering practices, reusable components, documentation, and analytical standards across the team.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience developing data products, analytical workflows, or decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry or a comparable platform.
- Strong capability in data modeling, transformation, integration, and analysis, using technologies such as Python, SQL, or equivalent tools.
- Experience taking solutions from problem definition through development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to translate complex or ambiguous business questions into practical analytical approaches and clear outputs.
- Ability to explain technical findings clearly and work effectively with underwriting, portfolio-management, and other business stakeholders.
We Offer
- Competitive base salary range between CHF 130,000 and CHF 194,000 for a full-time role.
- Hybrid work model with the expectation to be in the office at least three days per week.
- Opportunity to work with a leading provider of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer.
About the Team
The Portfolio Strategy & Steering team brings together underwriting portfolio management, engineering, data, and advanced analytical capabilities. The team operates as one integrated group with team members holding distinct but complementary accountabilities and jointly responsible for priorities, quality, and impact.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought, or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment, everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
Keywords: Software Developers, Data Modelling, Data Analysis, Python, SQL, Palantir
Reference Code: 139755
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