About the role
As the Digital Workplace Engineering Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers and architects focused on developing, managing, and supporting endpoints such as laptops, workstations, mobile devices, operating systems, and unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions. This role is essential in delivering Digital Workplace products and ensuring that these solutions align with business goals while providing a seamless and secure work environment.
Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of approximately 10-15 engineers and architects. Foster an environment that promotes continuous development, collaboration, and innovation within the team.Product Delivery: Oversee the architecture, development, and delivery of endpoint and UEM solutions. Ensure adherence to Swiss Re's engineering best practices, including security, documentation, and operations.Collaboration with Product Lead: Work closely with the Product Lead to align on business goals, understanding the product strategy, and ensuring the workforce strategy guarantees product continuity and alignment with organizational goals.Skills Development & Workforce Planning: Identify the necessary skills and capabilities within the team to meet current and future objectives. Provide training, development opportunities, and recruit new talent when needed. Ensure effective workforce planning to allocate the right skills to the right tasks.Performance Management: Regularly assess individual and team performance, setting goals, providing feedback, and supporting ongoing personal and professional development.Strategic Decision-Making: Participate in the Digital Workplace Leadership team and contribute to decisions that impact the broader organization. Drive improvements in the team's processes and delivery efficiency.Culture & Continuous Learning: Co-create a culture that embraces diversity, encourages leadership at all levels, and fosters continuous learning and reflection. Inspire innovation by staying aware of emerging trends and technologies in the digital workplace space. About the team
We in GTS Digital Workplace set out to make it easy for 18,000 employees to use their digital workplace to seamlessly connect with people, ideas, and expertise within and beyond Swiss Re. Our key to success is ensuring we understand the business needs of our internal clients, so that we can identify the relevant technologies that will benefit them and focus on helping them to adopt more thoughtful ways of working.
GTS Digital Workplace provides ground-breaking products, services and support enabling Swiss Re's workforce to work from anywhere (remote and in every location), anytime in a stable and secured environment; giving them the time to focus and innovate.
About you Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading and managing technical teams, fostering a strong, collaborative, and motivating environment.Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of endpoint technologies, operating systems, UEM, and digital workplace products. Able to bridge the gap between business needs and technical implementation.Workforce Planning: Ability to strategically plan and allocate resources effectively, ensuring the team meets business goals while fostering individual growth and development.Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to translate technical concepts into business terms and effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels.Agile Leadership: A flexible leadership style, knowing when to act as a hands-on expert, mentor, or coach depending on the situation and team needs.Continuous Learning: Passion for continuous improvement and keeping up with emerging trends in technology. A curious mindset that seeks new solutions and fosters a culture of learning within the team. Interested in this new challenge? We are looking forward to your application!
Why Join Us? Professional Growth: Opportunities for learning and development, including training in advanced data analysis tools and techniques.Collaborative Environment: Work with a development-focused team of experienced analysts, software engineers and change managers.Impact: Play a key role in driving data-driven decisions that influence the company's strategy and operations.Flexible Work Options: Potential for remote work or flexible hours based on performance. About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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