About the Role
Lead the delivery of data products, analytical capabilities, and Palantir workflows to enhance underwriting decisions, identify risks and opportunities, and strengthen portfolio steering. This is a hands-on technical and analytical leadership role focused on transforming business questions into practical data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build underwriting-specific data products, Palantir workflows, and analytical tools for portfolio planning, capacity setting, and steering.
- Translate material portfolio questions into reusable analytics and decision-support capabilities.
- Analyze performance, exposures, concentrations, dependencies, and portfolio dynamics to support decisions.
- Own solutions end-to-end, from analysis and build through adoption, refinement, and impact.
- Maintain engineering standards, controls, documentation, and governance for robust, scalable tools.
- Lead mixed engineering, data, and portfolio teams, strengthening capability and team effectiveness.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining data products, analytical workflows, and decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry.
- Strong skills in data modeling, transformation, integration, and production-grade development using Python, SQL, or equivalent tools.
- Ability to analyze performance, exposures, diversification, sensitivities, and risk-adjusted returns, and translate findings into portfolio decisions.
- Proven delivery from problem definition through design, build, testing, deployment, adoption, and impact measurement.
- Strong understanding of underwriting economics, portfolio management, risk, capital, and capacity in reinsurance or commercial insurance.
- Ability to explain complex issues clearly and influence senior stakeholders across underwriting, portfolio management, Data, and IT.
Skills
- Data modeling
- Data transformation
- Data integration
- Python
- SQL
- Palantir Foundry
Location
- Armonk, NY
- Alpharetta, GA
- Chicago, IL
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Kansas City, MO
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior technical and analytical leader
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- Armonk, NY: $220,000 - $330,000
- Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Fort Wayne, IN and Kansas City, MO: $208,000 - $312,000
About the Company
- Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.
- We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
- We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health.
- Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients.
- This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
- Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
- We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics.
- In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer.
- It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.
- During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request.
- If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.
