Expert Full Stack Developer (Smart Analytics & Data Science)

Place of work
Mlynské nivy 12, Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 2 700 EUR/monthMinimum base salary for this job from 2700 EUR gross/month/full time. Our offer to you may be higher based on your skills and experience and will include additional rewards and benefits. We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions.*

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

About the Role

You will be working on several of the key technology initiatives using cutting edge data, cloud and integration technologies. Working within a Smart Analytics team, you will be involved in designing and developing end to end applications. You will be participating in dealing with database, client side and server-side components, UI and integration of the application, that encompass our Smart analytics deliveries. You will collaborate with some of the brightest and smartest people who are set to make an impact to Asset Management

The ideal candidate is someone who can operate strategically and deliver tactical outcomes in complex projects, working side-by-side with our data scientists and other technology professionals. This person will have a broad understanding of multiple programming concepts, Agile methodology, and have proven him/herself leading development team in designing modern systems in multiple IT projects.

In particular, the role will involve:
The Knowledge Products group is a newly formed team within Asset Management. This fast-paced team is chartered with establishing expertise and creating products on emerging data science trends and insights. As a product function, Knowledge Products will seek to understand the current and near-future state of how our users both consume and make "Knowledge" impactful.

Knowledge Product members will be expected to have hands-on knowledge of various technologies to create cutting edge web-based products leveraging key mainstream technologies and at the heart are powered by Data Science.

- Work with product, design, data scientist, backend, and frontend engineers to develop Knowledge Products
- Help define and improve our standards for a maintainable, modular, and healthy code base for both the frontend and backend
- Evaluate and advocate for improvements in product design, quality, performance, and security
- Solve technical problems of various levels of complexity
- Take ownership of code and confidently ship features, bug fixes, and improvements with support from other team members when needed
- Stay on top of emerging trends and help the organization in making informed technology decisions
- You will ideally have experience working backwards from the product design to understand the true requirements underlying feature requests. prioritize, and communicate proactively.

About the Team

The Smart Analytics team has a mission to prototype and deliver advanced analytics solutions using techniques ranging from statistical modelling to machine learning serving partners across the Asset Management value chain. We are looking for passionate and driven individuals who wish to explore and apply the latest techniques in a financial context to support our investment process.

About Swiss Re Asset Management

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.

With more than USD 120 bn of assets under management, Swiss Re Asset Management handles the assets generated through the core insurance and reinsurance business. With the advent of technologies such as cognitive computing, smart analytics or machine learning the reinsurance area will radically change in the next years in terms of distribution, underwriting and administration of insurance protection. As a recognized leader in the industry, Swiss Re is running numerous use cases and is building up research and development units utilizing state of the art digital analytics to offer actionable research and transformational opportunities.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

About You

- Minimum 5-8 years of work experience in an agile software development and bachelor/graduate studies in computer science, engineering, information technology
- Minimum of 5-8 years' experience building digital products or enterprise-level web sites
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in designing and developing complex custom applications in JAVA/JavaScript programming language
- Must demonstrate ability of building applications in a multi-tier architecture, including database, UI components of the application
- Hands on experience in programming languages viz. JAVA, Spring, NODE JS, Angular, React, UI frameworks
- Have a good understanding of containerization concepts (viz. Docker)
- Solid understanding and building solutions under on-premise and most importantly Azure cloud infrastructure
- Sound knowledge of various integration patterns, SOAP/REST protocols, and familiar with XML, JSON
- Demonstrate familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment concepts along-with necessary tools like Puppet, Chef, VSTS, Maven, Jenkins, JIRA etc.
- Experience in multiple databases and knowledge of traditional SQL and unstructured data repositories (experience with Elastic Search and MongoDB is considered a plus)
- Demonstrate knowledge in micro-services architecture pattern and understanding of various technical components supporting microservices pattern viz. Netflix OSS, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud etc.
- Experience guiding development teams, in a high availability, high performance and cloud environment
- Keen interest in the whole spectrum of data science (data engineering, modelling and visualization)

Advantageous Additional Skills - considered a plus:
- Experience working with varied forms of data infrastructure inclusive of relational databases (MS SQL, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Hadoop HDFS, Mongo DB)
- Experience with Big Data frameworks (Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, PySpark)
- Specific knowledge of/experience in the insurance/financial industry

Overall, we're looking for an individual that has advanced level of knowledge in digital products full stack development. The individual must deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software.

* We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Maros Gal

ID: 3199516  Dátum zverejnenia: 17.4.2020  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 2 700 EUR/month