Data Engineer (maternity cover)

Are you passionate about turning raw data into powerful, trusted insights that drive real business decisions? Do you thrive at the intersection of engineering, analytics, and innovation? If you're ready to build the data backbone of a forward-thinking organisation, we want to hear from you!

 

About the Role

As a Data Engineer within the Infotech Data & Analytics team, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimising the data pipelines and platforms that fuel decision-making across GDTO. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your engineering expertise meets analytical curiosity — and where the data you craft becomes a strategic asset for the entire organisation. You'll collaborate with talented engineers, architects, analysts, and product owners to deliver scalable, reliable, and intelligent data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust, scalable data pipelines and transformation workflows that ensure high-quality, trusted data flows across the organisation
• Build and maintain data models and transformation logic, ensuring data assets are well-structured, documented, and ready for analytical consumption
• Engineer and optimise solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure or Palantir Foundry, leveraging data-oriented cloud services to maximise performance and reliability
• Write clean, efficient code using Python/PySpark to process, transform, and analyse large-scale datasets
• Collaborate closely with product owners, data architects, analysts, and users to translate business requirements into technical data solutions
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex data issues with clarity of thought and a structured problem-solving approach, keeping product owners informed of progress and outcomes
• Contribute to the evolution of the data and analytics solutions, identifying opportunities to improve scalability, reusability, and data quality in alignment with product owner priorities
• Champion data best practices, including data governance, lineage, and documentation, to ensure data assets are trusted and actionable
• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering, cloud platforms,and AI to continuously enhance team capabilities

 

About the Team

The Infotech Data & Analytics team is the engine behind the data and analytics foundation that powers decision-making across GDTO. We build and operate trusted, scalable products —combining engineering, analytics, architecture, and AI — to transform raw data into meaningful,actionable insights. Our team thrives on collaboration, curiosity, and a shared commitment to making data a true strategic asset for the organisation.

 

About You

You are an intellectually curious and solutions-oriented data engineer who takes pride in building things that work — and work well. You bring a structured approach to problem-solving,communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, and are energised by the challenge of making complex data landscapes simple, reliable, and impactful. You are collaborative by nature, eager to learn, and excited by the idea of working with cutting-edgetechnologies at scale.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Data Engineering, Transformation & Analysis: Proven hands-on experience designing and building data pipelines, transformation models, and analytical data assets at scale
• Cloud Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, Azure or another major cloud platform, including strong knowledge of data-oriented cloud services and architecture patterns 
• Python / PySpark Proficiency: Strong programming skills in Python and PySpark for data processing, transformation, and analysis across large datasets
• Analytical Mindset: A natural ability to see the bigger picture in data — understanding not just how to move data, but how to make it genuinely valuable and insightful for end users
• Curiosity & Adaptability: A growth mindset and enthusiasm for picking up new tools, platforms, and methodologies as the data landscape continues to evolve

 

These are additional nice to haves:

• AI & Agentic Programming: Experience working with AI agentic frameworks and/or building intelligent, automated data workflows
• Data Visualisation: Ability to translate data into compelling visual stories through dashboards or applications built on Palantir Workshop, Power BI, or similar tools

 

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,400] and [EUR 4,100] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:​

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, ​
• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.​

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.​

 

 

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. 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.

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.

 

We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.

 

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