Portfolio Underwriting Engineer: Build Data Tools & Steering

Swiss Re; Fort Wayne (IN); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Swiss Re in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking an Underwriting Portfolio Engineer to apply advanced data and engineering techniques to improve underwriting portfolio decisions. You will build practical solutions in Palantir Foundry and other platforms, framing business questions and delivering production‑quality analytics.

This hands‑on role spans the full lifecycle, from data exploration to deployment, with collaboration across underwriting and portfolio management to measure impact and drive better

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing data products or decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry or similar platform.
• Strong data modelling, transformation, and integration using Python/SQL.
• Experience taking solutions from problem definition through development and deployment.
• Ability to translate complex business questions into practical analytical outputs.
• Ability to explain technical findings clearly to underwriting and portfolio stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build underwriting-specific data products and Palantir workflows for portfolio planning and steering.
• Translate questions into practical analytics and reusable decision-support capabilities.
• Analyze performance, exposures, concentrations, dependencies and portfolio dynamics.
• Develop, test, deploy and maintain robust data-driven solutions from data sources.
• Collaborate with users during delivery and measure impact on decision quality and speed.
• Contribute to engineering practices, documentation and analytics standards.

Skills

Palantir Foundry

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Data transformation

Data integration

Analytical thinking

Job description

Swiss Re in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking an Underwriting Portfolio Engineer to apply advanced data and engineering techniques to improve underwriting portfolio decisions. You will build practical solutions in Palantir Foundry and other platforms, framing business questions and delivering production‑quality analytics.

This hands‑on role spans the full lifecycle, from data exploration to deployment, with collaboration across underwriting and portfolio management to measure impact and drive better