Application Engineer III

About Swiss Re

The Swiss Re Group 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. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organized into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group’s overall mission.

About the role

Are you a sharp, ambitious, and hardworking software engineer who is respected by peers, enjoys a challenge, and thrives collaborating in a diverse multi-national team banking connectivity team? If so, then this is a superb role where you can demonstrate and broaden your experience, bring forward your ideas and keep learning. As one of our senior engineers, you will:

• Be part of team of Banking and Connectivity Professionals focusing on Treasury and Finance applications, helping to embed our culture of continuous improvement and be a support person in demanding projects.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of new features / components / interfaces / documentation of our platforms, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code focusing on simplicity, performance, maintainability and automation.
• Take full life-cycle ownership of various applications and components, including communication to senior stakeholders
• Help us appraise and then deliver new, innovative and creative ideas & technologies to evolve our platforms

About the Team

Banking Connectivity is one of the four squads of the Treasury InfoTech which is providing and operating the systems to handle bank accounts and payments for the entire Swiss Re organization connecting internal systems to the SWIFT infrastructure.  We follow agile methodologies and apply DevOps practices. We are actively focusing on the Microsoft Azure as a cloud solution for our future landscape.

About You

You are a results driven experienced software engineer with a university degree (Masters preferred) in IT, engineering (or similar), comfortable meeting (sometimes tight) deadlines. You have an accomplished record in delivering sustainable solutions and you desire to develop your skills and knowledge about the platforms on you will be working on, both the technical aspects and how they are used by our business partners. You are comfortable working in multi-dimensional agile teams with direct involvement from business SMEs and care about security, quality, user experience, documentation, testing, team spirit and the big picture. Finally, you want to put clean code principles into practice on large code bases

Your core assets:

• Minimum of 8 to 12 years of software development experience.
• Strong core Java skills, including hands-on experience with the Spring Framework
• Good working knowledge of data modelling and SQL. Practical knowledge of database technologies SQL and non-SQL
• Knowledge and experience of SWIFT MT and MX messages, payments integration/payments hub and related ISO15022 and ISO20022 standards is expected.
• Solid understanding of financial messaging including software vendor products (GT Exchange, GT Frame, GT Sanctions)
• Practical experience in building mini-services (preferably Spring Boot)
• Experience building front-ends with Angular is a plus
• Experience with Cloud Computing is a plus (preferably Azure)
• Practical experience with Test-driven development and an evangelist for it!
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, containerization.
• Strong desire to understand and contribute to the big picture through optimization of the underlying processes
• Enjoy solving challenging problems, both technical and functional
• Highly proficient in English (written and verbal), German knowledge is a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Prior experience in the domains of Financial Reporting, Trading, Collateral Management, Capital Markets, Treasury is strongly preferred

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, 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 work places that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.