Sr Cloud Architect Analytics & AI, Madrid (M, ES)

We seek a Senior Cloud Architect (MS Azure) to lead our Data Analytics and AI initiatives. Our Data & Analytics service is a cloud-native SaaS leveraging Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, modern data lake house infrastructure, and relational databases. In AI, we develop a GenAI-powered backend integrating with client products to deliver features such as RAG, OCR/NLP, and more using LLMs.

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you'll guide platform design to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. The role blends strategic planning with practical implementation, involving hands-on work with code and infrastructure. You will join the technical leadership team, collaborating with Product Owners and Engineering Managers to shape the tech roadmap and drive team direction.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Architecture: Design efficient cloud systems with self-healing reliability mechanisms

• Tech Leadership: Create technical documentation, write specifications, and guide implementation

• Team Growth: Mentor teams, foster engineering excellence, and drive innovation

• Hands-on: contribute and lead implementation, analysis, troubleshooting, evolutive maintenance, delivery and experimentation of PoC with new technologies

• Strategy: Present roadmaps to stakeholders while exploring emerging technologies

Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you, however, meet some of the criteria below and are genuinely curious about the world of software development and IT Cloud, we will be happy to meet you.

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we'd love to hear from you: *

• Must have excellent technical proficiency in…

• Cloud Expertise: Experience designing enterprise grade multi-tenant SaaS products on Azure combining application and infrastructure services (AKS, Networking, CDN, WAF, etc.)

• System Design: Proven technical architecture experience with Java, Spring MVC, and distributed systems

• Security Knowledge: Zero Trust implementation, authentication protocols, and network security

• Integration Skills: Experience with service integrations (REST, SOAP) and event-driven architecture

• Infra and DevSecOps: Experience with DevSecOps practices: CI/CD, IaaS, and everything related to release a self-healing, high reliability, cloud infrastructure

• Technical Analysis: Proficiency in architecture modeling and documentation

• Tech team leadership: Experience in coaching and guiding multi-cultural technical team members, o Quality and vulnerability (e.g., SonarQube, Invicti, Aqua)

• Programming background with any OOP languages (e.g., Java, .Net) preferably with GOlang

• Hands-on experience with Maven and/or Gradle

For Spain the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 60.000] and [EUR100.000] (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, specialization, skills and experience.

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognize 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.

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About Swiss Re

Our team, a software house within Swiss Re, develops cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for external Life & Health insurance clients. Our portfolio includes established products like Magnum and those in growth or incubation stages, used globally. We utilize the latest technology and prioritize innovation to stay competitive. Our technical team comprises over 150 professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in various countries, delivering highly available, multi-regional solutions used worldwide., 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.