Application Engineer II

About the role

You would mainly be responsible for the development and maintenance of the core Experience Studies engine within the Experience Studies ecosystem used by Swiss Re actuaries. Although you won't be a manager, your ability to work well with your peers and stakeholders is vital.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and deliver key capability within the Experience Studies engine. Analyzing requirements from our Experience Studies Centre of Excellence who expect and welcome challenges to ensure a robust, performant, and complete solution.
• Support our Experience Studies community in the use of our engine.
• Participation in agile activities to boost you and your peers skills and quality of work.

About the Team

We are a cross-functional team with a keen eye on the detail who put our clients first. We work together to create a robust dependable solution. Our role is to bring together our collective knowledge and expertise for Swiss Re's Experience Studies community.

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About You

You are ambitious and a supportive team player. You should be curious and seek the best solution within time/budget constraints. Analytical and critical thinking are strengths that are supported by your great interpersonal and written skills. Work equally well within a team and solo activities.

Essential

• Advance R programming skills with relevant experience over the last 12-24 months, especially with packages like tidyverse, dplyr, data.table, dtplyr, Rcpp, testthat, and shiny.
• Built production-grade applications (version controlled, with unit and functional tests, packaged format).
• Strong data science and analytical skills.
• Desire to learn and improve continually (training may be provided).
• Experience using Posit commercial products: Posit Workbench, Posit Connect and Posit Package Manager.

Nice to Haves

• Performance optimisation of R code (dtplyr, data.table, Rcpp, cpp11).
• Experience in deploying R solutions using CI/CD pipelines and cloud providers (e.g. Azure DevOps).
• Provide technical guidance, help & leadership to other R developers within the team.
• Agile working experience.
• Actuarial knowledge.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.