Consultant Actuarial Software Solutions

About the Project

Actus covers core (re-)insurance processes like loss modelling, pricing, and capital modelling, in a highly customizable manner, fully built with Solveva IP. Technically, it is using TypeScript (React, NodeJS, Express, NestJS) for both frontend and backend. TypeScript and Python can be used for implementing actuarial algorithms. The scope of the application and the client base will increase. 

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will work closely together with our product owner, our developing teams, and with our clients. It’s this effective collaboration where Solveva excels and by which we lead the innovation in our field. This is an exciting entry to our company, offering you enthralling personal growth opportunities. 

It encompasses: 

• Contributing within a team to a great customer experience 
• Managing to a substantial extent the existing client relationships 
• Supporting business development activities 
• Ensuring that client requirements are taken up, managing expectations on both ends, clients’ and developers’, taking ownership on delivery 
• Helping clients implementing their own solutions with our products 
• Representing Solveva on client meetings with developers and business experts from client side 
• Staying up to date with actuarial methods as well as software engineering 
• Contributing to the development of our software suite by business analysis – client as well as product owner and management requirements are taken up, prioritized, explained to the developers 
• Being a first go-to person for developers’ questions on business value and the like 
• Budget reporting to clients (team hours spent on which projects, etc.

We will jointly adapt the exact profile of the role according to your personal strengths and to your seniority. We are committed to your personal growth; thus, you do not need to cover all aspects of the role at the start.

Your Skills and Your Experience

You will have substantial exposure to Solveva colleagues as well as to clients. Therefore, your personality and work attitude need to match the Solveva culture right from the start: 

• You enjoy teamwork  
• You are a strong analytical thinker  
• You engage openly in discussions – the better idea wins 
• You can empathize with clients, listen, ask the right questions for clarifications, manage expectations  
• You can explain the product owner’s and the client’s vision to the development team and create a chain of lucent stories and tasks to make it happen   
• You take personal responsibility for delivery  
• You can deal with sometimes vague requirements and see them as creative challenges  
• You give engaging presentations, produce clear reports, and always keep an eye on documentation  
• You are happy to take up client input for their specific implementation – our solutions are at the heart of each client’s business, and each heart is a bit different  

Furthermore, you will need the following to succeed in your role:

• 3-5 years of experience in quantitative fields of (preferably non-life) insurance and reinsurance like underwriting, reserving, regulatory reporting, solvency calculations 
• University degree in a quantitative science (e.g. mathematics, statistics, economics, actuarial science, or related) 

• Sound understanding of programming paradigms  
• Actuarial degree is a plus  
• Familiarity with agile methodology for project management (SAFe is a plus) 
• Business fluency in English