Director, Underwriting Portfolio Engineering

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.

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.
• Analyze 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.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining data products, analytical workflows, and decision-support solutions in Palantir Foundry.
• Strong skills in data modeling, transformation, integration, and production-grade development using Python, SQL, or equivalent tools.
• Ability to analyze 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.

Schedule

Hybrid work model, with the expectation that employees work from the office three days per week.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this position is:

• $220,000 to $330,000 for Armonk, NY.
• $208,000 to $312,000 for Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Fort Wayne, IN; and Kansas City, MO.

The specific salary offered will take into account factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. Swiss Re takes a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions, considering all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short- and long-term incentives, and benefits offered).

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. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. 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 15,000 employees across the world.