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Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
Onsite
About MS Reinsurance
MS Reinsurance is a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland with underwriting offices in Zurich, Bermuda, Miami, and New York. The Company underwrites non-life treaty reinsurance solutions on a worldwide basis through its three business units: Americas, International, and Specialty Lines. As part of the world-leading insurance group MS&AD, MS Reinsurance combines reliability and agility to make its clients’ businesses stronger. With a drive to move quickly and a commitment to long term partnership, MS Reinsurance supports its partners with the momentum and stability they
About the job
As part of our dynamic IT function, you will be at the centre of shaping a critical actuarial platform as Product Owner - Actuarial Platform, driving the vision, roadmap, and delivery of a core data and analytics solution connecting SICS with actuarial and finance processes. You work closely with reserving, actuarial, finance, and data teams, while guiding technical direction, engineering standards, and vendor delivery within a scaled agile environment.
Your responsibilities
Own the reserving / actuarial platform as a product and technology asset, ensuring alignment with actuarial workflows, finance requirements, and the overall technology strategy.
Define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and backlog in collaboration with the Product Manager Finance & Reserving and key business stakeholders.
Act as technology lead for the platform, guiding architecture decisions, engineering practices, and development standards within the Python-based Azure environment.
Ensure maintainability and quality of the platform by establishing or enhancing respectively standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and CI/CD, while supporting contributions from distributed developers and actuarial citizen developers.
Collaborate closely with reserving, finance, data, and integration teams to ensure reliable data flows and scalable platform capabilities.
Maintain a hands-on understanding of the platform’s architecture and codebase, supporting design discussions, code reviews, and technical problem solving where needed.
Drive the evolution of the platform, replacing legacy tools and manual processes with automated, scalable solutions.
Your profile
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or a related quantitative field.
Several years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Platform Owner, or Engineering Lead in an agile environment.
Strong technical background with hands-on experience in Python-based platforms and modern software engineering practices.
Experience working with cloud environments (preferably Azure) and development workflows including Git-based version control and CI/CD.
Ability to guide and review technical contributions while balancing product priorities and platform sustainability.
Experience working across business and technology teams, ideally in environments with distributed contributors or citizen developers.
Exposure to insurance or reinsurance domains (e.g., reserving, actuarial processes, or finance data flows) is an advantage.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; fluent in English, German is advantageous.
Why Work With Us
Make your mark with us. At MS Reinsurance, we’re big enough to make a difference and small enough that everyone counts.
We offer an entrepreneurial culture, where there’s less hierarchy and more action, and room for innovation. Here, you’ll have the power to drive real change and shape our path ahead.
Join a place where ambition can become reality, with development and platforms that support where you want to go next. Together, we'll help you discover your potential as we expand ours.
We live day-to-day by our values: collaborative, progressive, empowering, and responsible. This means you’ll join a team which upholds mutual trust and treats each other with respect. While teamwork is at the heart of our approach to reinsurance, we don’t expect our team to think alike; at MS Re, we don’t just welcome your differences, we believe they’re essential to our success.
Does this sound like a culture you want to be part of? Find out more about what we offer on our website and apply today!
In case of questions, please contact us via email: careers@msreinsurance.com
Note that we will only consider applicants eligible to work in Switzerland.
MS Reinsurance is the market-facing brand of the risk carrying legal entity MS Amlin AG, a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland and operating in Bermuda as MS Amlin AG, Bermuda Branch, in the United States through MS Amlin Reinsurance Managers, Inc, and in Labuan, Malaysia as MS Amlin AG, Labuan Branch.
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