Palantir-Powered Underwriting Portfolio Engineer

Swiss Re; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Swiss Re is seeking an Underwriting Portfolio Engineer to drive data-powered portfolio decisions. You will build data products and Palantir workflows, transforming complex portfolio questions into practical analytics for underwriting and leadership teams.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with portfolio managers and engineers, translate business questions into actionable outputs, and deploy robust, scalable solutions across multiple data sources to improve decision quality and speed.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing data products, analytical workflows or decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry or a comparable platform.
• Strong capability in data modelling, transformation, integration and analysis, using technologies such as Python, SQL or equivalent tools.
• Experience taking solutions from problem definition through development, testing, deployment and continuous improvement.
• Ability to translate complex or ambiguous business questions into practical analytical approaches and clear outputs.
• Ability to explain technical findings clearly and work effectively with underwriting, portfolio‑management and other business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build underwriting-specific data products, analytical tools and Palantir workflows that support portfolio planning, capacity setting and steering.
• Translate material underwriting portfolio questions into practical analytics and reusable decision-support capabilities.
• Analyse performance, exposures, concentrations, dependencies and portfolio dynamics to inform portfolio decisions.
• Develop, test, deploy and maintain robust solutions using reliable, decision-ready data from multiple sources.
• Work with users through delivery and adoption, measuring whether solutions improve the quality, speed or consistency of decisions.
• Contribute to common engineering practices, reusable components, documentation and analytical standards across the team.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Python

SQL

Job description

Swiss Re is seeking an Underwriting Portfolio Engineer to drive data-powered portfolio decisions. You will build data products and Palantir workflows, transforming complex portfolio questions into practical analytics for underwriting and leadership teams.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with portfolio managers and engineers, translate business questions into actionable outputs, and deploy robust, scalable solutions across multiple data sources to improve decision quality and speed.