Requirements Engineer

About the Team

This role is part of a team supporting the policy administration system used by several types of Commercial P&C insurance products of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions North America. The teams primary focus is to consistently provide outstanding customer service to our underwriting business partners. We respond to issues and requests for change to the functionality as well as continue to find ways to deliver operational efficiencies. To ensure consistent customer focus positive relationships have been built with our business partners and vendors. The Requirements Engineer serves as the principal conduit between the business and the software development team throughout the lifecycle of an issue or change request.

About the role

In this position you are responsible for supporting the Product Owner in defining user narratives and detailing out requirements with business support for their use of the policy administration system. In supporting the business you will be responsible for collaborating with the business team members internal IT team members and vendor team members.

• Gather and understand requirements; work with clients users business/product owners & SMEs to understand their requests and be able to translate and breakdown requests into user stories; authoring additional requirements artifacts and project documentation as needed.
• Understand the overall Landscape architect from an Endtoend perspective; work with developers in finding the best solutions from a user perspective
• Support system upgrades including ensuring all changes are adequately tested coordinating the release to production with our vendor partner and handle notification of system outage.
• Ensure that system changes are in line with business requirements by creating test plans & expected results conducting some testing and coordinating with the testing team to review test results.
• Provide support to end users when they identify issues attempt to resolve the issues or ensure issues are reported/logged with developers the accurate priority is set and workaround are identified.
• Review & update knowledgebased articles used for production support as needed.
• Support/Coordinate testing of infrastructure changes.
• Be an integral part of the team by supporting our need for continuous improvement of our processes and operational efficiency.

About You

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience preferred
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of system analysis & design
• Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle and Agile concepts
• Experience with Agile methodology writing user stories open collaboration etc
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with previous ability working in globally located team situations understanding and demonstrating sensitivity toward cultural differences
• Ability to cultivate networks throughout an organization to gather support and build a foundation for future influence
• Sound decisionmaking skills and ability to take crucial action
• Ability to align priorities of own area with the direction and priorities of the broader organization
• Flexibility with changes in tasks and priorities
• Demonstrate a willingness to adapt to shifting or contending priorities and try new things even at the risk of failure.
• Solid understanding of Commercial Insurance
• Knowledge of insurance policy transactions and lifecycles
• Solid understanding of data models / table structures with previous ability to create / implement SQL conduct data analysis and provide conclusions
• Familiarity with Webservices XML JSON and API a plus

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging new perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions adopts a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop expertly regardless of their age gender race ethnicity gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation physical or mental ability skills thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.