Sr Cloud Architect Analytics & AI

About the Team and our Scope 

Our team, a software house within Swiss Re, develops cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for external Life & Health insurance clients. Our portfolio includes established products like Magnum and those in growth or incubation stages, used globally. We utilize the latest technology and prioritize innovation to stay competitive. 

Our technical team comprises over 150 professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in various countries, delivering highly available, multi-regional solutions used worldwide. 

About the Role 

We seek a Senior Cloud Architect (MS Azure) to lead our Data Analytics and AI initiatives. Our Data & Analytics service is a cloud-native SaaS leveraging Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, modern data lake house infrastructure, and relational databases. In AI, we develop a GenAI-powered backend integrating with client products to deliver features such as RAG, OCR/NLP, and more using LLMs. 

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you'll guide platform design to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. The role blends strategic planning with practical implementation, involving hands-on work with code and infrastructure. You will join the technical leadership team, collaborating with Product Owners and Engineering Managers to shape the tech roadmap and drive team direction. 

Your responsibilities will be: 

• Architecture: Design efficient cloud systems with self-healing reliability mechanisms 

• Tech Leadership: Create technical documentation, write specifications, and guide implementation 

• Team Growth: Mentor teams, foster engineering excellence, and drive innovation 

• Hands-on: contribute and lead implementation, analysis, troubleshooting, evolutive maintenance, delivery and experimentation of PoC with new technologies 

• Strategy: Present roadmaps to stakeholders while exploring emerging technologies 

About You 

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you, however, meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of software development and IT Cloud, we will be happy to meet you. 

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we’d love to hear from you: 

• • Must have excellent technical proficiency in… 

• • Cloud Expertise: Experience designing enterprise grade multi-tenant SaaS products on Azure combining application and infrastructure services (AKS, Networking, CDN, WAF, etc.) 

• • System Design: Proven technical architecture experience with Java, Spring MVC, and distributed systems 

• • Security Knowledge: Zero Trust implementation, authentication protocols, and network security 

• • Integration Skills: Experience with service integrations (REST, SOAP) and event-driven architecture 

• • Infra and DevSecOps: Experience with DevSecOps practices: CI/CD, IaaS, and everything related to release a self-healing, high reliability, cloud infrastructure 

• • Technical Analysis: Proficiency in architecture modeling and documentation 

• • Tech team leadership: Experience in coaching and guiding multi-cultural technical team members 

• • Preferable knowledge also about… 

• • • Quality and vulnerability (e.g., SonarQube, Invicti, Aqua) 

• • Programming background with any OOP languages (e.g., Java, .Net) preferably with GOlang 

• • Hands-on experience with Maven and/or Gradle 

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
• the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialization, skills and experience.

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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. 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.