Solutions Architect (Hybrid; m/f/x/d;80-100%) — Swiss Re
- Location
- Zurich, CH
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 14 days ago
Role overview
About the Team and our Scope
You will join the Data and Technology Finance area at Swiss Re, a team at the heart of a significant transformation in how finance data is sourced, managed, transformed, and consumed across the organisation.
The role sits within Finance Data Foundation, the product area responsible for providing the data ingestion and transformation backbone that underpins finance.
- About the Team and our Scope
- You will join the Data and Technology Finance area at Swiss Re, a team at the heart of a significant transformation in how finance data is sourced, managed, transformed, and consumed across the organisation.
- Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and maintaining an end-to-end architectural understanding of how data flows into, through, and out of the entire Finance landscape including actuarial and risk systems.
Main responsibilities
- Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and maintaining an end-to-end architectural understanding of how data flows into, through, and out of the entire Finance landscape including actuarial and risk systems.
- Proactively recognising optimisation opportunities across the Finance data landscape, including data flows, transformation logic, controls, platform usage, and delivery processes.
- Translating business and technology needs into clear, pragmatic solution designs that can be understood by engineers, product owners, data specialists, and senior stakeholders.
- Partnering closely with engineering teams to shape solutions, validate assumptions, remove ambiguity, and ensure architectural decisions are implemented effectively.
- Working with product owners and business stakeholders to understand finance processes, reporting needs, control requirements, and data quality expectations.
- Designing scalable, resilient, and well-governed solutions for data ingestion, transformation, validation, lineage, and consumption.
- Assessing solution options and making clear recommendations based on business value, technical feasibility, maintainability, cost, risk, and delivery impact.
- Identifying dependencies, risks, and architectural trade-offs early, and communicating them clearly to the right stakeholders.
- Promoting modern engineering and architecture practices, including automation, observability, reusability, documentation, and evidence-based decision-making.
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.
- Strong data skills, including the ability to understand data models, data flows, transformation logic, data quality issues, lineage, controls, and how data is consumed by business processes, reporting, analytics, and downstream applications
- The ability to understand complex business and technology landscapes, identify the important details, and turn ambiguity into clear direction.
- The confidence to use diagrams, structured thinking, probing questions, and concise documentation to explain problems, options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
- The ability to move between strategic architectural thinking and detailed solution design, including dropping down into data flows, transformation logic, interfaces, controls, and implementation details where needed.
- Experience applying AI tooling effectively, accurately, and appropriately to improve analysis, design, documentation, engineering collaboration, or delivery outcomes.
- Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Additional details
- Acting as a bridge between business, architecture, product, and engineering teams, ensuring that solution direction remains coherent from concept through delivery.
- You are comfortable with complexity, but you know how to create clarity for others.
- For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between CHF 128,000 and CHF 192,000 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
- Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
- 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: 138626
Notes and original content
- About the Role
- For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between CHF 128,000 and CHF 192,000 (for a full-time role).
- The specific salary offered considers:
- 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: 138626
Questions about this listing
What salary does Swiss Re offer for this role?
Swiss Re lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zurich, CH. 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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