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Technical Lead

  • Location:

    New York

  • Sector:

    Non-life

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    Up to US$180000 per annum + 50% bonus & 12% 401k match

  • Contact:

    Tom Daughtrey

  • Contact email:

    Tom.Daughtrey@weareoliverjames.com

  • Job ref:

    JOB-012021-133015_1610053769

  • Published:

    about 3 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-02-06

  • Startdate:

    03/01/2021



As a Tech Area Lead in the Accident & Health and No America Product Areas, you'll combine design thinking techniques, software development, networking skills, business domain know how and apply agile architecture principles to build high-quality applications and to execute and deliver A&H platform (incl. budget responsibility).

Technical Area Lead Accident & Health


About Swiss Re

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.

At Swiss Re we combine experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 13,000 employees across the world.

We offer a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?

Your responsibilities include:

  • You work closely with the Product Manager to understand the problems, evaluate technical feasibility and develop solution designs.
  • Together with the squad you use design thinking techniques to empathize with our customers on their journey and find innovative solutions to solve their problems.
  • You lead the implementation of cloud native solutions, building apps that amaze customers by its simplicity.
  • You focus on developing API-centric apps, know the digital ecosystem and integrate your solution with ease with external services.
  • You embrace and spread the DevSecOps culture and mindset in the squad, automating everything and enabling continuous delivery of high quality and valuable features at a very fast pace!

About you

Are you eager to disrupt the insurance industry with us and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognized and rewarded? Then join our growing team and become part of the next wave of insurance innovation. Your profile:

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in agile software engineering with full stack development background and deep understanding of modern, cloud native architectures and software patterns
  • At least 5 years of application architecture experience
  • Proven Azure experience with previous work and references
  • You act as the technical representative for our security architecture and cybersecurity posture. You create secure, defendable configurations of systems, applications, data, threat protection and processes
  • Proficient in either Java or .Net core and TypeScript
  • Knows all the important technologies on the CNCF landscape map
  • Docker and kubernetes knowledge essential
  • Security design and applied knowledge
  • Hands on experience in Microservice development on Azure and experience of executing cloud native projects in Azure with DevOps
  • You have strong analytical skills, and take on problems in a structured way, joining your own creative ideas and those of others. You can do this on an abstract level and engage in details to make sure ideas are realistic and pragmatic
  • Excellent communication, people management skills and efficiency when working with senior management and key external clients is important
  • Experience integrating 3rd party products into IT landscape and supporting them.
  • Entrepreneurial and able to demonstrate commercial acumen when driving business-technology decisions
  • An understanding of Accident & Health insurance is a plus
  • Constant learner who keeps on top of industry trends

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