Hannover, Lower Saxony, DE (Hybrid)1 open job
Global reinsurer (world's third-largest) offering property & casualty and life & health reinsurance, with EUR 24bn+ gross premiums and 170+ entities worldwide.
Hannover Rück SE is the world's third-largest reinsurer, transacting property and casualty reinsurance alongside life and health reinsurance across international markets. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Hannover, Germany, the company writes gross premiums exceeding EUR 24 billion and employs around 4,000 people. Property and casualty business in Germany is underwritten through subsidiary E+S Rück, the country's second-largest P&C reinsurer. For anyone thinking about the threat model: that scale means life and health data, underwriting records, and claims exposure spread across more than 170 subsidiaries, branches, and representative offices - an estate where perimeter assumptions don't hold.
The technical domains are risk modeling, underwriting, and reinsurance itself - the business runs on quantifying catastrophe and accumulation risk, and the systems behind that work carry the sensitivity you would expect. Financial strength and underwriting discipline are stated as central to the operation; ratings from Standard & Poor's (AA-, "Very Strong") and A.M. Best (A+, "Superior") are the external shorthand. That level of institutional trust raises the bar for how the organization protects the data underneath it.
Operating model is deliberately lean for a company of this size: a partnership-oriented structure that combines the resources of a major international reinsurer with a closer working relationship to clients, under the theme "Beyond risk sharing – we team up to create opportunities." The stated focus is on innovative solutions, expanding insurance coverage, and helping clients recover from major risks. More than 50 years of operating history, a global network, and a balance sheet built on discipline - the context is stable; the job is keeping it that way.
