Data & Analytics Programming Specialist

Data and Analytics Programming Specialist

Location: Bangalore  

Department: Business Excellence 

Org Unit:  Enabling Advanced Analytics 

About Swiss Re 

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. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. 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 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.  

About the team  

"Generate leading insights to handle, steer and anticipate our business" is the Advanced Analytics team's vision. The Enabling Advanced Analytics Team is a team in Business Excellence and part of P&C Re Operations and is accountable for development and maintenance of P&C Re Operations Analytics landscape. 

We support the pre-bind and post-bind Operations departments [Origination, Business Services (Offering and Contracts), Technical Accounting & Claims Operations, Claims Management, In-force Management and Reserving], by generating significant business insights. The team is regularly interacting with senior key stakeholders and acts as interface between the business and IT partners. 

 About the role  

This role will be based in Bangalore where other Enabling roles are already located. The role holder will closely work with the Enabling Advanced Analytics Lead and other Enabling team members as well as IT and business stakeholders to solve business problems from a data driven perspective. The Data and Analytics specialists will also participate in projects from definition to completion and ensure the maintenance and the evolution of the analytics platform.  

Key tasks 

• Translate business needs into specific, quantifiable questions answerable with data using robust methodologies. 

• Lead end-to-end solution development to create business value.  

• Apply statistical, algorithmic, data mining, and visualization techniques to model complex problems, identify opportunities, discover solutions, and deliver actionable business insights.  

• Identify and address gaps in existing datasets to improve the data collection process. 

• Own your projects; use autonomy to innovate, solve problems, deliver solutions, and manage stakeholders at various levels. 

About you  

Technical and analytics skills:  

• Master's degree in STEM, Economics, Statistics, or Engineering with strong analytical and programming skills.  

• A minimum of 6 years of programming experience as an individual contributor.  

• Strong background in advanced statistics  

• Proficiency in Python, R or MATLAB, PowerBI 

• Familiar with full-stack development and/or knowledge of cloud environment 

• Experience in the re/insurance industry is advantageous.  

Soft skills and a consulting approach  

• Communicate clearly and simply, both orally and in writing, tailoring your style to different audiences.  

• Be open-minded and intellectually curious, with a continuous desire to learn from various sources.  

• Act as a self-starter, capable of independently solving problems and developing solutions.  

• Tell compelling stories based on data and facts.  

• Ask appropriate questions to understand your partners' needs.  

• Maintain attention to detail, prioritizing critical tasks while keeping the broader perspective in mind. 

• Proven track record of working on diverse projects. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities, and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when, and where to carry out your task.