Hyderabad, TG, IN
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. Analysing 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.
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 the 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.
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.
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.
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