Director, Portfolio Data Engineering for Underwriting

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Swiss Re, a global leader in reinsurance and risk transfer, seeks a Director-level professional to lead data-driven underwriting portfolio engineering. You will own end-to-end data solutions, partnering with underwriting, portfolio management, data and IT to translate complex portfolio questions into scalable capabilities.

You will drive delivery of data products and Palantir workflows, require hands-on technical leadership, and influence senior stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building, deploying and maintaining data products, analytical workflows and decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry.
• Strong skills in data modelling, transformation, integration and production-grade development using Python, SQL or equivalent tools.
• Ability to analyse 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.

Responsibilities

• Build underwriting-specific data products, Palantir workflows and analytical tools for portfolio planning, capacity setting and steering.
• Turn material portfolio questions into reusable analytics and decision-support capabilities.
• Analyse 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.

Skills

Data analysis

Data modelling

Data transformation

Data integration

Leadership

Portfolio underwriting knowledge

Tools

Python

SQL

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Swiss Re, a global leader in reinsurance and risk transfer, seeks a Director-level professional to lead data-driven underwriting portfolio engineering. You will own end-to-end data solutions, partnering with underwriting, portfolio management, data and IT to translate complex portfolio questions into scalable capabilities.

You will drive delivery of data products and Palantir workflows, require hands-on technical leadership, and influence senior stakeholders across the organization.