Director Solution Architect recruitment

Do you relish a challenge? Are you looking for a new outlook in your professional life that will allow you to develop further? As a global leader in risk and capital management, our success is built on forward-looking, committed employees who are keenly focused on quality. Are you ready for the challenge?

Director Solution Architect

Our Service Production-Solution Integration team fulfils the vital function of enabling domain ITs to provide a seamless service experience for their business. We need an experienced and inspiring individual as a thought leader.

The opportunity
You will have overall responsibility for norming and delivering our technology application architecture, technology stack and solution design to a consistently high quality that meets customer expectations.
Your duties will include developing technology application architecture based on customer requirements, delivering an integrated solution design to the respective domain IT and creating a catalogue of blueprints and best practice documents.
You will also make sure appropriate standards are adhered to by maintaining a stable, viable and consistent architecture. In your additional governance role, you will review approve design and implementation or raise any risk up to executive management. At the same time, you will help team members to grow while building a community of developers and architects.

About you

You have a Masters of Science, ten years of work experience, including five as a leader, and a good understanding of the reinsurance market, business practices and approaches. Your experience covers managing suppliers and vendors, leading a function and being a project leader.
An expert in solution design, architecture and technologies like Java/JEE and SOA as well as integrating systems and interfacing solution components and concepts, you are focused on monitoring emerging technologies.
You possess a combination of analytical, planning
and creative skills, along with drive and initiative.
This is your opportunity to join Swiss Re Group - one of the world's leading wholesale providers of reinsurance, insurance and other innovative forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Our business at Swiss Re is about understanding and analysing the major risks that concern the world - from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. We combine experience with expertise and innovative thinking to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. And we enable the risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress.
This is only possible with around 10,000 truly exceptional Swiss Re people across our group worldwide.
You are a natural team leader.

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or other opportunities with Swiss Re, you may apply by visiting our website at www.swissre.com/careers. The reference code for this position is EXT-NB50473449. Applications will only be accepted through our website.