Senior Quantitative Engineer

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims.

Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking.

About RenaissanceRe

For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges.    To learn more, please visit us at Careers - RenaissanceRe (renre.com).

About IT

Innovation and technology are essential to our success at RenaissanceRe. We believe in strong business and IT alignment, working closely together to develop leading capabilities to support our globally integrated operating model.  This joined-up thinking and passion for continuous improvement helps drive our cutting-edge systems – and it’s something we’re recognized for externally. From the start, our business has been founded with technology and data innovation at its heart. Today, we continue to invest in advanced risk and portfolio insights enabled by cloud-first financial modelling, a data mesh architecture, and artificial intelligence with innovative partners. The impressive scalability and performance this has enabled has helped us achieve industry-leading results.

For our IT team, it means a unique environment. We’re developing next generation technology that has real world impact. Working side-by-side with industry-leading risk specialists, we help to solve complex problems that help protect communities around the world. A career in IT at RenaissanceRe is continually evolving, technically innovative and highly rewarding.  Our main IT hubs are Bermuda, Dublin, London and Raleigh, North Carolina.

About the Position

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated Senior Quantitative Engineer with a proven delivery record ideally in the financial domain delivering solutions on the AWS platform. The successful candidate will join a high performing team of engineers delivering world class solutions as aligned with strategic directives. This is an excellent opportunity for a flexible individual with an energetic and enthusiastic approach who wishes to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment. You will also help the team leverage AI-assisted engineering approaches and modern developer tooling to increase productivity, improve code quality, and streamline the software development lifecycle.

Our technological platform is constantly evolving as we apply new and emerging technologies to our expanding business. The Analytic Services team manages analytic solutions at the heart of RenaissanceRe’s risk and underwriting strategy and supports a global userbase. The nature of our business demands high levels of agility, which in turn requires our team to be technically superior. If you are eager to work with a dynamic team designing and developing high-performing modelling solutions, this job is for you!

The Senior Quantitative Engineer role is based in the Dublin, Ireland office and will be expected to travel occasionally to the UK and potentially to the United States and Bermuda.

Key Relationships

• Key Stakeholders:  Analytic Services Tech Lead, Portfolio & Capital Solutions (PACS) Architecture,  Portfolio and Underwriting
• Key Partners: Analytic Services, PACS Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with our analytic services team, PACS domain, product management, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality modelling solutions
• Design and develop analytic and modelling solutions, automated tests, documentation, and related processes to meet and exceed the requirements of partners
• Lead the technical design efforts for analytic solutions. Engage in architecture discussions at a portfolio and capital level and align solution architecture with wider enterprise architecture visions
• Propose, explore and integrate tools and supporting technologies in the context of the wider system architecture to advance the design of the solutions developed and supported by the team
• Estimate development effort for the wider technical solution being developed by the team
• Meet or exceed the quality, reliability, resilience, scalability and stability goals of their assigned
• Act as a steward for the quality of new development in the team and ensure the stability, integrity, and usability of existing solutions on platforms and technologies including AWS
• Python, SQL and NoSQL
• Effectively communicate with senior management
• Embrace the RenaissanceRe culture and consistently demonstrate it in daily activities

Key Experience

• Excellent Python experience required
• Experience debugging numerical computations and explaining results
• Experience using AI tools to increase productivity and streamline software development processes
• Experience in delivering high performing solutions using python, AWS and other modern technologies
• Experience leading innovation activities and proof of concept exercises
• A comprehensive knowledge of the technologies used by the team is required
• An ability to lead technical discussions is required
• An ability to quickly adopt new technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills is required
• Flexibility to work independently or as part of a team is required
• Experience working in a financial domain
• Prior experience working ideally in the reinsurance industry, alternatively the insurance or financial industry
• Prior experience with agile development
• Experience evaluating 3rd party solutions for use within the enterprise

Candidate Qualifications:

• A degree level education in a quantitative field (mathematics, computer science, natural science etc.), or equivalent industry experience
• Further education / training in quantitative engineering desired

Leadership Competencies & Values:

• Impact:  Sets objectives, delivers results, and implements policies/operational targets with direct impact on the department or individual work outcomes
• Execution: Proactively identifies resources, actions and timelines needed to achieve objectives, effectively balancing tactical pressures with broader implications and downstream impact
• Communication: Shares relevant information in a timely manner with stakeholders and conveys points of view in a way that influences opinions and demonstrates flexibility
• Client and solutions focus:  Identifies process and service opportunities that enhance the external and internal client experience and outcomes
• Innovation:  Stretches self and others to think differently and innovatively, drawing upon multiple sources for ideas and inspiration
• Learning mindset:  Seeks out and explores new assignments, exposure, or challenges in order to enhance technical skills
• Values:  Exemplifies and champions RenaissanceRe’s core values of Focus, Respect, Integrity, Precision, Passion

We believe that meeting these requirements will position you for success in the role. However, if you fulfill most – but not all – of the expectations, we still encourage you to apply, as we are eager to explore your potential and believe in the ability to grow and learn.

At RenaissanceRe, we believe in creating a workplace culture that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination and take proactive steps to make employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success. It is RenRe’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, colour, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/ civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.

We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.