SwiftRe Digital Solutions Expert

About The Role We are looking for a 'Digital Solutions Expert' to further evolve SwiftRe®, Swiss Re’s digital facultative underwriting channel.

As a subject matter expert across the reinsurance value chain, you will combine strong underwriting expertise with digital solution thinking. You will shape and drive enhancements across automation, validation logic, workflow optimization, API-enabled connectivity, and intelligent solution capabilities — including the practical application of AI and agent-based technologies — to improve efficiency, scalability, and client experience.

This role plays a key part in advancing the digitalization and intelligent automation of facultative reinsurance within Swiss Re’s underwriting landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide deep expertise on underwriting processes, systems, and digital workflows.
• Identify and drive opportunities to enhance automation, validation logic, and rule-based decision processes across the submission lifecycle.
• Increase straight-through processing and operational efficiency through targeted digital enhancements.
• Define and prioritize solution improvements, including API-enabled integrations and optimized data utilization.
• Contribute to intelligent solution enhancements, including the use of AI and agent-based capabilities to support workflow automation, decision support, and testing optimization.
• Support modern testing approaches, including automated, scenario-based, and AI-assisted validation techniques.
• Collaborate closely with Products, Underwriting, IT, and Operations to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
• Support solution validation, UAT, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure alignment with business objectives, compliance requirements, and operational standards.

About The Team SwiftRe® is a global digital business operation within Swiss Re offering online facultative P&C reinsurance coverage 24/7. It supports the full placing and managing risks process — from underwriting to accounting and claims — delivering a true end-to-end digital experience.

As part of the P&C UW Excellence unit, SwiftRe® plays a strategic role in strengthening digital underwriting capabilities and accelerating automation and intelligent enablement across Swiss Re’s global operations.

About You

• 8–12 years of experience in the Re/Insurance domain.
• Strong underwriting experience, with hands-on exposure to underwriting processes, tools, and digital enablement initiatives.
• Broad understanding of the end-to-end reinsurance value chain, including underwriting, accounting, and claims interactions.
• Experience contributing to digital solution evolution in a business-driven context.
• Solid understanding of workflow automation, validation logic, API-based integration concepts, and emerging intelligent technologies.
• Strong analytical mindset with high attention to data integrity and operational efficiency.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional, matrix environment.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• P&C Reinsurance experience is a strong advantage.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week 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 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.

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