Senior Data Engineer

As Senior Data Engineer at Zurich Technology Delivery Center, you design and deliver end-to-end data and AI platforms that power Retail Claims, Pricing and Underwriting. You collaborate with actuaries, data scientists and SMEs to translate business needs into scalable data products. Your work advances cloud-based data pipelines, ML/AI deployment, and production-ready services, driving measurable improvements in customer outcomes. This role blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional impact in a global insurer.

• competitive salary and yearly bonus
• flexible working model
• option to work abroad up to 25 days
• home office setup allowance and monthly allowance
• training programs (languages and other)
• health and life insurance options with alternatives to benefits

• Design and build end-to-end data and AI solutions (scalable, secure, observable)
• Develop and operate cloud-native data pipelines from ingestion to production
• Implement high-performance ETL/ELT in AWS or Azure with Spark/Databricks
• Industrialise ML/AI with CI/CD and MLOps pipelines
• Create and maintain microservices and APIs exposing data/AI capabilities
• Establish MLOps strategies: versioning, feature stores, monitoring, drift detection
• Bridge business requirements to technical architectures for feasibility and value
• Develop AI-powered products with LLMs (prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows)

• Advanced Python
• Databricks
• AWS or Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes or similar
• Git or similar
• LLMs
• Spark
• Azure DevOps or Jenkins

• Collaborative mindset
• Cross-functional communication
• Problem solving with impact
• Python (production-grade data/backend)
• Databricks (cloud-based data/AI)
• Cloud engineering in AWS/Azure