Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering — Swiss Re
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
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, analyse 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.
- 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, analyse complex portfolio data, and build practical solutions in Palantir and other relevant platforms.
- Key Responsibilities
- Build underwriting-specific data products, analytical tools and Palantir workflows that support portfolio planning, capacity setting and steering.
Main responsibilities
- Key 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.
- Analyse 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. 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 You
- You combine strong data and engineering capability with an interest in underwriting, commercial decision-making and portfolio management.
Application process
- 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.
- We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position.
- These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people.
- To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying. Keywords: Reference Code: 138936
Additional details
- Contribute to common engineering practices, reusable components, documentation and analytical standards across the team.
- The team operates as one integrated group with team members holding distinct but complementary accountabilities and jointly responsible for priorities, quality and impact.
- You can move between exploratory analysis and production-quality delivery, challenge assumptions, investigate ambiguity and remain accountable for whether your solutions are used and create value. We are looking for candidates who bring:
- Swiss Re has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.
- To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying. Reference Code: 138936
Notes and original content
- About the Role
- About the Team
- You can move between exploratory analysis and production-quality delivery, challenge assumptions, investigate ambiguity and remain accountable for whether your solutions are used and create value.
- We are looking for candidates who bring:
- About Swiss Re
- To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.
- Reference Code: 138936
Questions about this listing
What salary does Swiss Re offer for this role?
Swiss Re lists CHF 101'500 - 154'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Swiss Re offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Swiss Re during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Zürich can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Zürich's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
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