Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering

About the role

Swiss Re is looking for a Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering in its integrated Portfolio Strategy & Steering team in Zurich. 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.

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.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience developing data products, analytical workflows or decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry or a comparable platform.
• 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.

Required skills

• Data modelling, transformation, integration and analysis using Python, SQL or equivalent tools.
• Comfortable working with complex datasets and developing analytical workflows.

What we offer

• Base salary range of CHF 130,000 to CHF 194,000 for a full-time role in Zurich, depending on scope, complexity, education, qualifications, expertise, skills and experience.
• Open to hiring across any Swiss Re office within Europe and North America, with salary adjusted to local market benchmarks.
• Hybrid work model with at least three days per week in the office.