Senior Application Engineer

Corporate band: D

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

The primary responsibility of an Application Engineer is the overall technology delivery of the Product and Manage Application(s) lifecycle of applications. Together with other team-members like Engineering leads, Product Owners, plan the project timeline, assess risk, prioritize technical tasks and plan milestones and delivery of project.

The responsibility could span multiple products and would require collaboration across various global teams with a mix of both internal and external members.

We’re looking for potential team members who …

• Have strong fundamentals with in-depth knowledge of core technologies and platforms.
• Have strong understanding of software development process.
• Have extensive experience working in agile cross-functional and continuous delivery teams.
• Are data driven and a pragmatic problem solver with an eye for business who loves creating order out of uncertainty and thinks strategically about tough trade-offs.
• Have a resilient personality, comfortable with change and able to get over setbacks and motivate peers to do the same.
• Can listen, comprehend the vision, challenge requirements and work out a realistic design.

About the Team

Our team is the global L&H Reinsurance Engineering team, responsible for the technical Architecture and Engineering of IT solutions for Reinsurance business unit. The team members are passionate about technology with deep understanding of reinsurance business. We closely collaborate with other teams and colleagues around the globe to share knowledge and engineer solutions.

Growing experience will, over time, give you a broad view on Architecture & Engineering of a global reinsurer and enable you to have a comprehensive understanding, people and systems involved and how these systems shape business outcomes. This will allow you to build up an excellent foundation for a next career step in a role closer to the operational business activities in our global organization.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will possess …

• Demonstrated strong expertise in Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, MSSQL, TSQL and database engineering with 12+ years experience delivering enterprise-scale database solutions.
• Responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of complex Oracle database applications, procedures, functions, triggers, packages, and database APIs.
• Provide technical leadership in database architecture, data modelling, normalization, and solution design to support business-critical applications and data platforms.
• Drive database performance improvements through advanced query tuning, index optimization, execution plan analysis, capacity planning, and database health monitoring. .
• Lead the development and management of ETL processes, data pipelines, and data integration solutions to support reporting, analytics, and operational systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, data engineers, and application teams to translate business requirements into scalable and resilient database solutions.
• Establish and enforce database development standards, coding best practices, governance controls, secure coding guidelines, and data protection policies.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and automation solutions to improve database development productivity, optimize performance analysis, accelerate issue resolution, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Evaluate and implement emerging AI, machine learning, and data-driven technologies to support intelligent automation, predictive analytics, database modernization, and continuous innovation initiatives

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, 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 workplaces that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.