Cloud Architect

As a senior-level Cloud Architect on the team, you'll apply your knowledge of architectural principles and Azure technologies to architect and design the application for Azure public cloud. Together with C & S team members, you will provide architecture, design and hands on coding support and technical guidance to the squads, implement POCs to pave the way, and join them as needed in key refactoring, migration, coding, and troubleshooting responsibilities, especially those requiring senior-level expertise.

Your responsibilities include:

• Application architecture and design.
• Application hosting on compute services such as Azure App Service and Azure Functions.
• Messaging via Azure Service Bus.
• Security refactoring (e.g., moving to modern authn/authz protocols such as OIDC & OAuth2 with Azure AD and/or Okta; possible usage of Cloudflare).
• Database migration (primarily from Oracle to PostgreSQL; Azure SQL and CosmosDB may also be used in some cases).
• ETL process migration to Azure Logic Apps and/or Azure Data Factory.
• Establishment of DevOps processes, including CI/CD pipelines for build & deployment, application monitoring, etc.


About the Team

The Credit and Surety portfolio is part of Corporate Solutions and caters to the following lines of business. Bank trade and infrastructure finance, Surety, Political Risk Insurance, Trade Credit Insurance. The team is building a core underwriting and administration system called BTIP. This application will be built for the future on azure cloud, enabling ease of integration with Micro Services, and a loosely coupled architecture. The application will integrate with multiple systems such as SiRC, Manhattan, PRODLIB, External Portal etc. The development will comprise of 4 Squads. 2 Functional Squads, Integration squad, Operations and Automation squad. Cloud is an important aspect of the architecture and each of the squads will have an embedded Cloud Architect.

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits, such as:
• Attractive annual bonus
• Additional days of vacations
• Company stock options
• Space for professional growth incl. e.g. leadership and language trainings
• Flexible working hours - you own the way you work - and home office
• Fully paid lunch allowance
• Sick leave compensation
• Employee pension contribution
• Medical service contribution
• and many more!

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. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.