4 Data Engineering Analyst Jobs

About the team:

Global Finance Operations Transformation (GFOT) is the unit responsible for the accounting and reporting of accurate and consistent financial information for Swiss Re for external reporting and internal analysis facilitating strategic decisionmaking. This includes IFRS for Group as well as statutory financial information for all Swiss Re legal entities, including SST and Solvency II. GFOT spearheads the transformation of Global Finance, streamlining it towards a simpler, more effective forward-looking organization.

We are a diverse team based out of Z rich, Bratislava and Bangalore, committed to bring alive the Finance of the Future within the Group Finance Operations Transformation (GFOT) organization. We transform our Finance operating model by standardizing, automating and integrating our Reporting Processes along the Value Chain.

We foster innovation by driving Business Use Cases in the areas of User Experience and Data Management.

We work cross functionally with our colleagues in Finance, IT, and all other departments to eliminate silos. We therefore value effective communication skills on top of technical skills.

About the role:

The Reporting Solutions (GFOT RS) team is at the core of the Global Finance Operations Transformations (GFOT) and focuses on providing a flexible and stakeholder-centric reporting infrastructure for the entire department. The team develops self-service reporting drives innovation by creating new reporting solutions or tools or automations to enable people to work more efficiently. The team builds and provides operational reporting, management reporting, other internal-performance reporting while also supporting any audit or statutory reporting needs.

The core activities of the Data Engineering Analyst (Data Engineer) in the GFOT Reporting Stargate Solutions team include:

• Build our data backbone by integrating various Finance data systems using PySpark and open source as well as proprietary tools using Palantir Foundry
• Be part of the building up data or reporting solutions to address the business requirements or problems for either the home department (GFOT) or the wider Finance organization
• Use knowledge of existing data to propose and provide better solutions
• Work with business users stakeholders to understand bottlenecks in performing their day-to-day roles either onboard to existing solutions or build new solutions
• Maintaining existing reporting platforms and performing change management activities as necessary
• Contributing to ad-hoc projects and supporting other team members as required
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in data engineering, performance optimization, and financial data analysis.

About you:

• Overall, 4 to 6 years of working experience in data engineering and reporting
• Proficiency in PySpark for data processing and management
• Proficiency in Palantir Foundry its applications (building pipeline using code-repository, creating data-health Checks Expectations, data analysis in Contour)
• Familiarity with Hadoop and Spark along with optimizing spark-based pipelines
• Data Model Design and implementation based on the requirements
• Able to convert the business problem / situation into technical implementation
• Familiarity with Financial Reporting Valuations (like IFRS17) is an advantage
• Knowledge of current Visualization tools or TypeScript is an advantage
• Knowing multiple technologies HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks like React or Angular or D3.js or Chart.js or similar is a plus
• University degree (equivalent) in quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Industrial engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Econometrics or Information Technology)

Specific soft skills:

• Excellent command of spoken and written English
• Standout colleague with ability to build proactive, collaborative working relationships with peers and key partners based on respect and teamwork
• Inquisitive, proactive and willing to learn new technologies, understand insurance business and its economics
• Process and delivery mindset aspiring for methodological and operational improvements
• Ability to drive the reporting aspects of multiple ad-hoc projects and have good expectation management of partners