Data Analyst / Business Analyst - Portfolio Modeling (GAM-IT)

We Are Waiting for You 

 Hi there!

I am Laura, the recruiter for this position. Nice to meet you!

First, a little bit about what I like the most about working at TDC: The environment here is incredibly collaborative and innovative. Our tech-driven mindset fosters continuous learning and growth, creating an atmosphere where everyone can thrive.  Now, I can't wait to share this exciting journey with you at the Zurich!

First off, THANK YOU for considering our company. We understand that finding the right opportunity can be tough, but I’ll try to make it easier.

Who Are We?

Let me introduce us. You’re reading about Zurich Insurance Group, a global leader in insurance, but this role specifically pertains to ServiZurich. Established in Barcelona in 2006, ServiZurich operates as an integral part of Zurich Insurance Group, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and support to Zurich's local and global business units.

In addition to our technological solutions, we excel in investment, administration, and accounting, ensuring comprehensive support for Zurich's diverse operations.

What Can You Expect

The catastrophe portfolio modeling product empowers portfolio managers with actionable insights into catastrophe risks at the granularity they need at the speed of business, enabling informed and profitable decision-making. Our team strives to provide the most realistic view of risk, ensuring portfolios are resilient and well understood. You’ll help develop and deliver this product by working with catastrophe researchers, model developers, platform developers, and model analysts. This role requires strong data analysis skills, stakeholder management, delivery ownership, and a solid understanding of integration with vendor platforms for loss modeling and transformation.

Why This Role Is Right for You

• You’ll shape Zurich’s cloud-enabled risk data platform and contribute to regulatory compliance and strategic decision-making.
• You’ll work with a collaborative international team of risk modelers, data architects, and engineers to deliver high-impact solutions.
• You’ll gain deep exposure to modern data platforms and governance practices, setting you up for long-term career growth.

As a Data Analyst / Business Analyst – Portfolio Modeling (GAM-IT) your main responsibilities will be:

• Support the delivery of data-centric IT products in the Group Accumulation Management area, with a focus on catastrophe portfolio modeling.
• Design and oversee data ingestion flows and transformation logic, ensuring scalability, traceability, and performance.
• Design, document, and oversee scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines on cloud platforms (Databricks, Azure), ensuring performance and traceability.
• Translate business objectives into actionable requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical solutions.
• Collaborate with risk modelers and technical teams to define workflows for exposure data and results from catastrophe models.
• Analyze, interpret, and transform heterogeneous data sources to enable informed decision-making and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate across functions (risk modelers, data architects, developers, risk governance) to deliver integrated data solutions.
• Facilitate and participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospective) and ensure alignment between stakeholders.
• Support development, testing, and release planning, with emphasis on performance, security, and measurable business value.
• Advocate for platform consistency and robust data architecture; liaise with Data Architects and Information Security.
• Provide functional consulting to internal consumers and data providers, driving adoption and value realization.
• Collaborate with experts across technical domains to share best practices and accelerate delivery.
• Continuously develop skills through real-world projects and contribute creatively to the team.

What Makes You a great Fit?

While we’re not seeking perfection or expecting you to save the world, we believe that if you meet some of these requirements, you’ll be a fantastic fit for our team. We are waiting for you!

As a Data Analyst / Business Analyst – Portfolio Modeling (GAM-IT) your skills and qualifications will ideally include: 

• Optimism, enthusiasm for being part of a team and helping others.
• Expert knowledge of T-SQL (Transact-SQL) for complex querying, data manipulation, and performance tuning.
• Experience with data science software development (e.g., R, Python).
• Experience with data modeling (conceptual, logical, and physical) and data transformation techniques.
• Experience with data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, or ETL tools (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Jenkins).
• Strong grounding in data modeling, data transformation, data visualization, and data governance concepts.
• Proven ability to design, document, and support data flows in modern cloud environments; comfortable with end-to-end software lifecycle.
• Experience supporting legacy platforms and running requirement-capture workshops; able to analyse existing systems and translate requirements into clear user stories and migration tasks.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills; able to navigate a matrixed organization and engage senior stakeholders.
• Track record of agile product delivery in technical contexts (Scrum, Kanban, or equivalent).
• Ability to bridge business and technical teams, especially in data-centric domains.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience coordinating UATs, releases, and performance/security validations.
• Familiarity with risk modeling or exposure data in the insurance domain is desirable.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Databricks or similar data-platform technologies.
• Experience with catastrophe modelling platforms: RiskLink, Touchstone
• Understanding of regulatory reporting requirements and internal risk frameworks.
• Knowledge of insurance and specifically catastrophe modeling.

And… What Makes Us Special?

As well as a competitive salary and a yearly bonus, we offer: 

• To support your work-life balance, we have adopted a flexible working model.
• Over 300 euros to set up your home office and additional monthly home office allowance.
• Wide range of internal and external trainings, including English, German and Spanish classes depending on the needs.
• Ticket restaurant and Health Insurance with the flexibility to exchange it for other benefits.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Collective Life retirement Plan
• 2000 referral bonus if you bring other talented people like you to the company.
• Special banking and insurance conditions plus Exclusive Employees discounts 
• Functional diversity benefits 
• Different social clubs such as hiking, investment, beach volley and many more
• Stock options and mortgage benefits.  

Where Are We Located?

 Barcelona, Bac de Roda.

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We Are Waiting for You.

 Can you see yourself in this role? Don’t wait any longer! Apply by sending your CV in English.

 If not, no worries! We’ll meet again in the future. Feel free to share my contact details with anyone you think would be a great fit.

 At Zurich, we are an equal opportunity employer. We attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available, regardless of race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

ServiZurich – Your Talent, Our Strength

Why Zurich

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right? 

We are an equal opportunity employer who knows that each employee is unique - that’s what makes our team so great! 
Join us as we constantly explore new ways to protect our customers and the planet.
 

• Location(s):  ES - Barcelona 
• Remote working: Hybrid
• Schedule: Full Time
• Recruiter name: Laura Santamaría Rodríguez