Director, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering

About the Role

As Director, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering, you will lead delivery of data products, analytical capabilities and Palantir workflows that improve underwriting decisions, identify risks and opportunities faster, and strengthen portfolio steering.

This is a hands-on technical and analytical leadership role, working directly with underwriting and portfolio teams to turn material business questions into practical data solutions.

You will own delivery from business question to analysis, build, implementation, adoption and measured impact — not just define requirements or commission work.

Key Responsibilities

• Build underwriting-specific data products, Palantir workflows and analytical tools for portfolio planning, capacity setting and steering.
• Turn material portfolio questions into reusable analytics and decision-support capabilities.
• Analyse performance, exposures, concentrations, dependencies and portfolio dynamics to support decisions.
• Own solutions end-to-end, from analysis and build through adoption, refinement and impact.
• Maintain engineering standards, controls, documentation and governance for robust, scalable tools.
• Lead mixed engineering, data and portfolio teams, strengthening capability and team effectiveness.

About the Team

The Portfolio Strategy & Steering team combines underwriting portfolio management, engineering, data and advanced analytics.

It operates as one integrated team, with two Directors leading specialist teams, allocating resources to shared priorities and jointly accountable for quality and impact.

About You

You are a senior technical and analytical leader with deep expertise in data platforms, engineering and analytics, plus the commercial curiosity to understand underwriting portfolio questions.

You lead specialists, work directly with complex data and deployed solutions, and translate ambiguous portfolio questions into scalable capabilities.

You bring strong technical judgement, delivery discipline and credibility with underwriting, portfolio management, finance, risk, capital management, Data and IT.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Hands-on experience building, deploying and maintaining data products, analytical workflows and decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry.
• Strong skills in data modelling, transformation, integration and production-grade development using Python, SQL or equivalent tools.
• Ability to analyse performance, exposures, diversification, sensitivities and risk-adjusted returns, and translate findings into portfolio decisions.
• Proven delivery from problem definition through design, build, testing, deployment, adoption and impact measurement.
• Strong understanding of underwriting economics, portfolio management, risk, capital and capacity in reinsurance or commercial insurance.
• Ability to explain complex issues clearly and influence senior stakeholders across underwriting, portfolio management, Data and IT.

For London, the base salary range for this position is between CHF 180,000 and CHF 270,000 for a full-time role.

The specific salary offered considers the scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, as well as the applicant’s education, qualifications, expertise, skills and experience.

Please Note: We are open to making this hire across any Swiss Re office within Europe and North America.

Salary ranges will vary between location in line with local market benchmarking, which will be shared during the screening/ interview process.

Swiss Re has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.