Quantitative Developer/Analyst, Weather & Energy - Hybrid (80-100% working degree)
About the role
In this role you would support the international Weather & Energy Markets department of Swiss Re and be part of the Business Intelligence & Analytics team. You would work closely with the other teams in Origination and Underwriting on tailor-made derivative contracts for institutional investors who want to hedge against weather and commodity price risks.
Your responsibilities include:
You would be responsible for developing and maintaining our IT infrastructure and processes for pricing, booking and valuating derivative contracts. In addition you would be assigned on various projects and initiatives in regards of portfolio steering, product development, support on reporting, KPI tracking, risk reviews and governance matters.
This involves collaboration with various internal stakeholders to understand requirements and develop solutions, provide ad hoc services and take ownership in projects and deliverables.
About the Team
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is a leading global market in the Weather, Energy, Commodity and Power Plant risk transfer market. We offer a wide range of climate, power, natural gas, and power plant outage risk solutions in insurance and capital market form.
Our clients include power and gas utilities, retailers, independent power producers, renewables, banks, and other energy industry sectors
About you
- Master's degree in a quantitative science (data, computer, engineering, mathematics incl. statistics, economics)
- Analytical problem-solving skills and interest in learning new techniques including personal improvement
- 3 years object-oriented programming experience covering common languages Python, R, or C++
- Professional database development experience in SQL (PostgreSQL), Oracle as well as SQL Servers
- Working experience in both Windows and Linux/Unix environments, fluent in shell scripting including Windows PowerShell
- Experience with Excel
- Able to communicate in English and independently collaborate with internal customers
- Strong desire to work in virtual, multi-national, multi-cultural, cross-company and cross-functional teams
- Familiar with financial market products and some knowledge of the insurance/reinsurance industries
- Knowledge in statistical analysis and experience in processing large data sets
Additional skills which are a plus:
- Working experience in various Cloud environments (e.g. AWS or Azure)
- Familiar with weather and energy commodity markets, power and gas trading and data analysis #LI-Hybrid
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