Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications and efficient software solutions.
- Design and implement Python/PySpark business services, data transformation services, and data flows.
- Develop backend applications that combine data from multiple domains and systems for accounting and reporting.
- Own end-to-end application architecture and implementation of functional and non-functional requirements.
- Perform peer code reviews and maintain application quality, performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability.
- Build automated tests and apply software engineering, Agile Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to present designs, align technical decisions, and deliver business functionality.
- Deploy and operate workloads in production and contribute to operations during quarterly closing cycles.
- Communicate with customers and stakeholders and coordinate follow-up activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or another relevant quantitative field, or equivalent qualification.
- 6+ years of experience designing and implementing reliable and scalable software across the full software development lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with Python, PySpark, SQL, Spark-based data lakes, and analytical frameworks.
- Experience with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Delta Lake, and Terraform.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, modern IDEs, and test-driven development including unit and integration testing.
- Expertise with relational databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL.
- Experience with REST and SOAP APIs.
- Strong software engineering, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, quality, and delivery skills.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot is advantageous.
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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.