Responsibilities
- Own the vision, roadmap, strategic direction, and lifecycle management of Azure Data and AI platform services.
- Design, build, operate, and modernize scalable, secure, compliant, and governed cloud and data platforms.
- Implement data governance capabilities including data cataloging, lineage, metadata management, access controls, and platform controls.
- Establish guardrails and operating standards for responsible AI, data access, and platform usage.
- Define platform capabilities supporting data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and self-service data consumption at scale.
- Partner with Risk, Security, Architecture, Compliance, business, and engineering teams to manage risks and ensure regulatory and policy compliance.
- Drive platform standardization, automation, adoption, continuous innovation, and alignment with enterprise cloud and data strategies.
- Act as the interface between business, engineering, and platform teams and influence senior stakeholders.
- Integrate Infrastructure as Code and Azure DevOps pipelines for automated quality and reliability checks.
- Design and operate Azure landing zones, platform automation, network connectivity, access management, monitoring, and high-availability architectures.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering and Data Engineering roles.
- 5+ years of hands-on Azure Databricks platform engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in Azure architecture, platform engineering, enterprise-scale cloud operations, and Databricks workspace architecture.
- Experience with Databricks account administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, governance frameworks, cluster policies, serverless capabilities, workspace security, model serving, networking, and cost optimization.
- Experience designing and operating enterprise-scale Databricks platforms for analytics, AI/ML, and data engineering workloads.
- Experience implementing data catalog management, lineage, metadata management, and access controls.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code expertise such as Bicep and experience integrating CI/CD Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Knowledge of golden paths, paved-road tooling, self-service automation, RBAC, internal developer platforms, DevSecOps tooling, network topology, privileged identity design, platform monitoring, security architecture, and high availability.
- Experience with DevOps or preferably DevSecOps, including continuous deployment, delivery pipelines, and test environments.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills and ability to work with Delivery Directors, Security Leads, Architects, and engineering teams.
- Proficiency in English.
- Ability to work effectively in a transformational, complex, and fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Swiss Re describes an inclusive and flexible workplace with equal opportunities for professional development.
- The role supports enterprise-wide cloud and data adoption and opportunities to contribute to transformational platform initiatives.
- Swiss Re encourages experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break to apply.
- Swiss Re may use AI-powered tools in application review, with final hiring decisions made by people.
About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN. We're smarter together. For more information about Swiss Re Group, please visit: www.swissre.com, follow us on X @SwissRe and subscribe our YouTube channel @swissretv.