Software Engineer

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, organizačná zložka

Place of work
Bratislava I, Bratislava-Old Town
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
2640€ plus other pay elements based on your experience

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

To work with the Hosted Application Development Teams for the Risk Modelling Platform by providing technical advice and guidance to colleagues. To support the specification and development of software applications and recommend application performance improvements, aligned with business requirements and accepted software development practices.
 
 - Engage with team members in the reviews and validation of the detailed technical design for business applications to ensure the use of accepted software development practices
- Perform quality review checks on program code, test plans/results, related objects and documentation
- Analyse programs to ensure that they use computer and storage resources efficiently; recommend appropriate changes as necessary for application performance improvements - Perform impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system
- Conduct system studies, analyse and evaluate existing computerised and manual systems/procedures to improve efficiency;
- Take responsibility for the development and maintenance of technical practices such as version control, branching strategy, bug tracking, unit testing, code reviews, refactoring, automated tests and automated releases
- Ensure that the work meets installation standards, design specifications, efficiency, and accuracy Specify / recommend integration and parallel testing criteria;  identify the required tests, test scenarios and test plans ensuring these cover all the business requirements
- Assists with Root Cause Analysis and troubleshooting of defects.
- Research and develop techniques for converting manual operations to a computerized system (e.g. automated releases)
- Design, develop and review documentation of proposed procedures, systems and functional specifications
- Support the implementation activities
- Provide training

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)

Educational Specialization

IT, technical

Number of years of experience

8

Personality requirements and skills

- Experience in experience in commercial software development
- Experience in either of R / Python / Java / C Willingness and desire to work in R
- Understanding of capital modelling, statistics, numerical optimization is an asset
- Ability to work effectively in a global organisation, in a small team, under time pressure and to manage ambiguity
- Fluent in English (spoken and written)

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Brief description of the company

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With about 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in more than 215 countries and territories. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, as well as multinational corporations. Zurich Bratislava is a Slovakia-based Competence Center for highly specialized services in the areas of Life and non-life actuarial, risk management, business intelligence, IT application development and service management as well as insurance network. An international workforce of close to 300 colleagues is supporting Zurich’s Corporate Center and Business Units around the globe.

Number of employees

250-499 employees
ID: 3453976  Dátum zverejnenia: 20.7.2018  Pracovná ponuka je prevzatá z inej stránky alebo zdroja. Základná zložka mzdy (brutto) a ďalšie odmeny: 2640€ plus other pay elements based on your experience