Senior Application Engineer

Náplň práce, právomoci a zodpovednosti:
Are you a motivated and hardworking individual contributor wanting to play a key role in supporting the development of key financial applications? Are you looking for a superb role where you can demonstrate your skills, broaden your horizons, keep learning and bring your own innovative ideas? If yes, then join our team and be part of our journey in delivering a program that will significantly improve our Treasury and Financial Closing capabilities!

In this role you will:
• Join a distributed DevOps team focusing on Finance applications, driving continuous improvement and be a key person in demanding projects.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of new features / interfaces of our platforms, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code focusing on simplicity, performance, maintainability and scalability.
• Support the full life-cycle of various applications and components.
• Investigate and address security and compliance topics within our domain.
• Help us appraise and then deliver new, innovative and creative ideas & technologies to evolve our platforms.

About the Team
Cash Management Treasury IT is a dynamic globally distributed international IT team providing change and support for a suite of applications serving Swiss Re's Group Finance function. The diverse set of functions and applications, operating in a landscape that never stands still, ensures that no two days are the same and offers opportunities for the keen learner to absorb and get exposed to key financial processes used throughout the world. We value agility in our approaches, stability for our platforms and a passion to learn.
The team you will join is just starting its migration to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure DevOps will be used for issue tracking, source control and pipeline management. Team members will have the opportunity to work with platforms such as the Azure Spring Apps, Application Insights, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake Storage and Azure SQL.

Zamestnanecké výhody, benefity:
You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including:
- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Informácie o výberovom konaní:
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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Požiadavky na zamestnanca:
You are results driven, comfortable meeting (sometimes tight) deadlines and demonstrate a willingness to develop your skills and knowledge about the platforms you will be working on, both the technical aspects and how they are used by our business partners. You are an inventive problem solver - yet knowing when to seek help when necessary. You enjoy working in an agile environment, have an accomplished delivery record, confident in technical conversations.

Finally, you possess a diverse range of skills and experience that you wish to enlarge and improve, including (but are not limited to) the following:

Expected
• Professional work experience in development and support of software applications
• Relational database experience (DML, DDL, modelling, tuning, ETL) - MS SQL preferred
• Experience in workflow orchestration and scheduling
• DevOps experience (familiarity with CI/CD tools)
• Experience with scripting (Windows & Linux)
• Understanding of the key ITIL processes of incident, problem and release management
• Ability to collaborate in globally distributed team