Senior Consultant Actuarial Software Solutions

at  Solveva

CH
You can join a high-performing international team dedicated to software engineering for leading global (re-)insurers.

YOUR SKILLS AND YOUR EXPERIENCE

You will have substantial exposure to Solveva colleagues as well as to clients. Therefore, your personality and work attitude need to match the Solveva culture right from the start:

• You enjoy teamwork
• You are a strong analytical thinker
• You engage openly in discussions – the better idea wins
• You can empathize with clients, listen, ask the right questions for clarifications, manage expectations
• You can deal with sometimes vague requirements and see them as creative challenges
• You give engaging presentations, produce clear reports, and always keep an eye on documentation
• You are happy to take up client input for their specific implementation – our solutions are at the heart of each client’s business, and each heart is a bit different

Furthermore, you will need the following to succeed in your role:

• Solid background in quantitative fields of (preferably non-life) insurance and reinsurance like underwriting, reserving, regulatory reporting, solvency calculations
• University degree in a quantitative science (e.g. mathematics, statistics, economics, actuarial science, or related)
• Sound understanding of programming paradigms
• Actuarial degree is a plus
• Familiarity with agile methodology for project management (SAFe is a plus)
• Business fluency in English

We want our team to be willing to take risks and to challenge the status quo. We recognize that having an open mind is essential for a company to remain competitive and to stay ahead of the curve.
20 years
of insurance-driven software
About Solveva
20

DESCRIPTION

20 years
of insurance-driven software
About Solveva
20

In particular, you are committed to ensure the best customer experience in the market, for example :

• Managing to a substantial extent the existing client relationships
• Ensuring that requirements are taken up, managing expectations on both ends, clients’ and developers’, taking ownership on delivery
• Representing Solveva on meetings with developers and business experts from client side
• Budget reporting (team hours spent on which projects, etc.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

In this role, you will work closely together with our product owner, our developing teams, and with our clients. It’s this effective collaboration where Solveva excels and by which we lead the innovation in our field. This is an exciting entry to our company, offering you enthralling personal growth opportunities.

It encompasses:

• Applying our tools to expand our set of reference implementations
• Implementing together with clients their own solutions with our products
• Providing ideas for the improvement of our platform from user feedback and your hands-on experience
• Supporting business development activities
• Explaining the product owner’s and the client’s vision to the development team and creating a chain of lucent stories and tasks to make it happen
• Staying up to date with actuarial methods as well as software engineering

In particular, you are committed to ensure the best customer experience in the market, for example :

• Managing to a substantial extent the existing client relationships
• Ensuring that requirements are taken up, managing expectations on both ends, clients’ and developers’, taking ownership on delivery
• Representing Solveva on meetings with developers and business experts from client side
• Budget reporting (team hours spent on which projects, etc.)

We are committed to your personal growth – you do not need to cover all aspects of the role at the start. Also, we will jointly adapt the exact profile of the role according to your personal strengths and to your seniority.

ADOPTING FIT-FOR-PURPOSE TECHNOLOGIES

We continuously evaluate and explore the latest technologies to select an innovative, cost-effective, and reliable technology stack for our solutions.

Furthermore, you will need the following to succeed in your role:

• Solid background in quantitative fields of (preferably non-life) insurance and reinsurance like underwriting, reserving, regulatory reporting, solvency calculations
• University degree in a quantitative science (e.g. mathematics, statistics, economics, actuarial science, or related)
• Sound understanding of programming paradigms
• Actuarial degree is a plus
• Familiarity with agile methodology for project management (SAFe is a plus)
• Business fluency in Englis