In this role of Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you leverage your technical skills, creativity and drive to improve business workflows to build powerful analytics products on Palantir Foundry.
You are involved across the entirety of the product delivery cycle, from initial brainstorming workshops on developing product hypothesis, to building, testing and deploying the product, and iterating with users to incrementally create value. As you work together with business experts, you develop a deep understanding of where data & analytics can create value and start to contribute towards product roadmaps.
Responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities :
- Forward Deployed Engineering. You engage directly with business product owners and business users to develop an understanding of their process and how data & analytics can be used to generate value for their areas
- Palantir Foundry Implementation. You leverage the data in our data platform, transforming it to fit your use case, and build dashboards as well as workflow applications that provide insights towards the business
- Agile Delivery. You work hand-in-hand with data engineers, product leads and business stakeholders in a cross-functional scrum team, leveraging modern product management techniques to quickly build valuable products incrementally
Qualifications
Required experience & competencies
Core skills :
- Technical Expertise. You love working with data and have deep experience (5+ years) both in the modelling and transforming of data pipelines as well as building visualizations and applications. You have experience writing high-quality code with Python, Spark and/or SQL
- Data Visualization / Application development: You have first hands-on experience on data visualization as a minimum, preferably some first experience building applications. JavaScript and / or Typescript is a plus
- Technical Leadership: Experience as a technical lead in a product delivery stream, understanding of software development lifecycle
- Product Management. You are interested in how great products are made with a focus on understanding user-journeys and following a user-centric design process. You have an 80/20 mind-set and work in quick iterations.
- Business Interest. You have a good understanding of finance & economics with preferably some first experience in the (Re-)Insurance industry. You love digging deeper into business processes until you develop an understanding of how they work. First experience in the (Re-)Insurance industry is a plus, but not required
- Can-Do Attitude. You are a generalist that loves working on new problems independently and developing new skill sets on your own. You develop creative solutions to hard problems.
- Collaboration. You thrive when working with people with different backgrounds, helping them translate their needs into a technical design. You enjoy working in a cross-functional team where everyone feels responsible for the outcome and brings in their ideas on how we succeed.
- Palantir Foundry. Experience working with Palantir Foundry stack or other modern data platforms preferred
Required Education
Quantitative bachelor’s or master’s degree (e.g. Physics, Data Science, Engineering) or equivalent
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About UsAs a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Skills Required
- 5+ years experience modeling and transforming data pipelines and building visualizations and applications
- Experience writing high-quality code with Python, Spark and/or SQL
- Hands-on experience in data visualization
- Experience building applications; JavaScript and/or TypeScript experience
- Technical leadership experience as a technical lead in a product delivery stream
- Product management mindset; user-centric design and iterative delivery
- Good understanding of finance and economics
- Experience in (Re-)Insurance industry
- Can-do attitude; generalist able to work independently and learn new skills
- Strong collaboration skills; experience working in cross-functional teams
- Experience with Palantir Foundry stack or other modern data platforms
- Quantitative bachelor's or master's degree (Physics, Data Science, Engineering) or equivalent
What We Do
SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, serves more than 5,000 clients worldwide, providing a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. SCOR delivers advanced financial solutions, analytics and services across all dimensions of risk in Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Investments. Reinsurance lies at the intersection of technical expertise and scientific progress. Models, data, and pricing and reserving tools are essential, yet they are never sufficient on their own. Sound risk decisions require expert judgment, experience and perspective. This is what we call the Art and Science of Risk. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry, where expertise grows through accumulation, transmission and practice. Across the Group, 3,600 experts based in more than 35 offices worldwide contribute to this collective intelligence. Actuaries, underwriters, risk management specialists, and Tech & Data experts transform data into insight, explore extreme scenarios, define the boundaries of insurability and help anticipate emerging risks. Together, they strengthen the resilience of SCOR, our clients and the societies we serve. This expertise is built through shared experience,continuous questioning and collective reflection. Like artists, we belong to schools of thought, learning first to observe, then to replicate, and ultimately to innovate. This ongoing transmission of knowledge enables SCOR to develop a distinctive approach, combining rigor, creativity and long-term vision in the service of risk mastery. This shared commitment underpins SCOR’s role as a global reinsurer. By turning risk into resilience and sustainable value, our collective of experts acts with responsibility and purpose. Together, we help protect the future, and shape it, for our clients, for society and for generations to come.
