Bratislava, SK
Technical Business Analyst (Maternity Cover)
Are you passionate about bridging the gap between business needs and technology? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment where your analytical mindset and collaborative spirit can truly make an impact? If so, this is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of IT solutions for a dynamic, international team.
About the Role & team
The Asset Management Digital and Tech Transformation unit has the mission to enable AM to become an AI powered, data centric organization. We foster a data-centric culture and ensure a state-of-the-art tech and data landscape, smartly using public cloud and SaaS solutions to provide innovative, secure and cost aware technology services.
As an IT Business Analyst supporting the Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) Group, you will be at the heart of an exciting technology transformation — supporting and running applications on Palantir Foundry. Working hand-in-hand with software engineers, data engineers, and a global community of business stakeholders, you will turn complex business challenges into elegant, well-defined IT solutions. This is a role where your ideas matter, your contributions are visible, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
We work in a scaled agile model with a shared leadership team and broadly aligned autonomy for our squads. We are located across the globe but share the same values of passion, openness, respect, humility, and curiosity in our team. We are a highly skilled and diverse global team. We love to learn new skills and will support you to do the same! We strive to improve the quality of our work for our customers every day. As a matter of trust, we give you a high degree of flexibility which matches your independent working style. Is this for you? Then we want to get to know you!
Key Responsibilities
- Drive innovation by leading the development of new business application functionalities from concept to delivery
- Analyse and understand business processes by gathering and documenting requirements using a variety of proven techniques
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional and non-functional specifications that guide engineering teams
- Validate solution designs against requirements through appropriate testing methodologies, ensuring quality at every stage
- Create and maintain user-facing business documentation that is accurate, accessible, and up to date
- Collaborate closely with data engineers to support end-to-end solution development and delivery
- Contribute to operational stability by designing robust data quality checks and system health monitoring
- Test management through creating, fostering/maintaining test cases/suites and supporting user testing incl. manual test execution by the role
- Champion continuous improvement by fostering a culture of accountability, learning, and innovation within the team
About You
You are a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a genuine passion for connecting business needs with technical solutions. You thrive in collaborative, agile environments and feel comfortable working across global, multicultural teams. Your ability to translate complex requirements into clear, actionable deliverables makes you a trusted partner for both IT and business stakeholders. You take ownership of your work, communicate with confidence, and bring a positive, solutions-focused mindset to everything you do. You have embedded AI in your toolset and make use of it effectively to improve efficiency and quality.
We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst in a software development and delivery environment
- Strong data modelling expertise, including hands-on experience with logical and physical data structures, relational database concepts, and collaboration with data engineering teams to define and validate requirements
- Proven SQL/pyspark skills to understand and apply for data analysis, validation, and prototyping, with the ability to independently explore and interrogate datasets
- Proven experience in testing, including defining and executing functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; skilled in designing test scenarios and supporting automated test processes
- Excellent documentation skills, with a track record of clearly articulating business processes, data flows, and technical specifications for both business and IT audiences
These are additional nice to haves:
- Exposure to Palantir Foundry (Python, or PySpark)
- Experience working in agile/DevOps environments with familiarity of sprint-based delivery models
- Strong conceptual and abstract thinking skills with a keen eye for identifying dependencies, risks, and cross-system impacts
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to confidently bridge Finance and IT stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, driving tasks to completion both independently and collaboratively in a global team setting
For Slovakia, the base salary range for this position is between 1 500€ and 2 500€ per month for a full-time role.
The specific salary offered considers:
- the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role
- the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience
In the situation where you do not meet all the requirements or you significantly exceed these, the offered salary may be below or above the advertised range. In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based annual bonus.
Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.
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. 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 15,000 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.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.
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