Requirements Engineer

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.

At Swiss Re we combine experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of our 15,000 employees across the world.

We offer a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?

About the role:

As a Requirements Engineer, you'll be part of a highly motivated tech team that is responsible for building high-quality Public and Private cloud applications, by applying agile principles. This position is a promising opportunity to be a part of our Underwriting Workbench Team located in Bangalore. Do you bring a strong technical and analytical background and want to further enrich your experience within insurance business and tool development know-how? If the answer is yes, read on!

Your responsibilities include:

• You closely collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers and Engineering team, serve as a liaison between the business and technology teams
• Solicit business and system requirements using walk-through of use case scenarios, business process, activity workflow and data flow where required
• Triaging of Production Incidents allocated from L2 and assigining to respective team members
• Write clear and concise requirements and specifications in the form of user story and acceptance criteria, ensuring that requirements are unambiguous, complete, consistent and verifiable
• Participate in Product Demo/Review sessions for completed business requirements with key stakeholderd and business users to gain final business approval
• Verify that the solution meets the business, compliance, and technical requirements
• Where required Participate in the development and planning of the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, including test plans and scripts, and facilitate UAT execution phase and work with business lead and project coordinator to acquire UAT sign-off
• Support teams from around the organization by answering/clarifying/supporting on ad hoc requests
• Proactive stakeholder management

About the team:

The Underwriting Platform Team in Corporate solutions aims to re-think customer facing technology offerings and apply disruptive perspectives. We hope to bring simplicity and efficiency to our clients, intermediaries and colleagues through innovative use of data and technology. Customers will experience products and a customer journey that is consistent, easier to understand and reliable. You will be working as a member of strong Innovation and product management-culture team

About you:

Are you eager to disrupt the insurance industry with us and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognised and rewarded? Then

• A Bachelor/master's degree in computer science or an equivalent experience
• Minimum of 6 years of business and system analysis experience in Financial Services Industry - in particular (Re)Insurance specific environment is an advantage
• Experience in data modelling, data ingestion/ETL solutions and data & system integration via data exchanges and APIs is a plus. Understanding of JSON, XML and Postman nice to have
• Demonstrated ability to discover and describe the current state situation, understand strategic business goals, design and articulate future state, perform gap analysis and make recommendations to business leadership that meet goals and requirements
• Experience in documenting user-stories, process flows and data flows
• Experience in Agile development, ideally with cloud/SaaS technologies
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to network in an interdisciplinary, multi-cultural environment and cross-functional teams
• Self-starter who is methodical and well-organized. Highly committed, upbeat, proficient and reliable
• Adaptable in multi-tasking and meeting deadlines in a delivery focused environment, flexible with working hours. Experience of leading multiple partners often with competing demands and deadlines
• Take ownership and drive topics forward. Team focus and orientation towards customers and results 

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 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 and their passion for sustainability.