Cloud Solution Architect

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 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.

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About the team

The Architecture Center of Excellence (CoE) team has been established to bring standardization across all CorSo applications, increase our architecture level and improve DevSecOps practices.

In close collaboration with project teams the Architecture CoE helps educating engineers on everything public cloud related.

The team also helps with high level architecture and design for applications that are migrating to the cloud.

About the role

As cloud solution architect you'll combine software development, networking skills, business domain know how and apply agile architecture principles to build high-quality, cloud-native applications.

Your responsibilities

Together with application squads you use design thinking techniques to empathize with our customers on their journey and find innovative solutions to tackle their problems. You embrace and spread the DevSecOps culture in application squads, automate everything and enable continuous delivery of high-quality and valuable features at a very fast pace! With a strong focus on developing API-centric apps and knowledge of the digital ecosystem you can help integrate solutions with ease. You'll support the implementation of apps that will amaze customers by their simplicity.

About you

Are you eager to support CorSo's Architecture CoE and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognised and rewarded? Then join our team and find an encouraging environment in which we aspire to make CorSo's dream come true!

What we look for

Vast experience in agile software engineering and cloud architecture

Full stack developer with years of experience building modern, cloud-native architectures and applying software development patterns

Proficient in either Java or .Net core and TypeScript

Experience in Azure DevOps with an Infrastructure-as-Code approach (Terraform)

Deep understanding of Azure's public cloud offering

Solid understanding of modern authentication/authorization protocols such as Open ID Connect and OAuth5>

Strong API controller design and implementation skills

Experience designing/building resilient microservice architectures

Knowledge of technologies on the CNCF landscape map

Excellent communication, people management skills and efficiency when working with senior management and key external clients is important

Strong analytical skills and able to join your own creative ideas and those of others. You can do this on an abstract level and engage in details to ensure ideas are realistic and pragmatic

High commercial competence when driving business-technology decisions

Experience with integration technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ is a plus

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