Life reinsurance platform with global pricing and back-office transformation
Pacific Life Re operates a reinsurance business across life, critical illness, and income protection—backed by Pacific Life's 150+ year heritage. The tech stack centers on analytics (Alteryx, Tableau, Snowflake, R) and security infrastructure (Okta, CyberArk, Entra), with active hiring concentrated in finance (27 roles) and engineering (9 roles). The project roadmap is dominated by pricing tools, back-office modernization, and analytics capabilities, suggesting a shift from fragmented legacy systems toward unified, data-driven underwriting and operations.
Notable leadership hires: Test Lead
Pacific Life Re is a Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance carrier with over 700 employees across offices in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. The company focuses on life, critical illness, income protection, hospital cash, and savings & retirement reinsurance products, serving both direct clients and retrocession partners. Operations are undergoing significant transformation: a global back-office consolidation, pricing system upgrades, and expanded advanced analytics capabilities. The finance and engineering hiring acceleration reflects the scale of modernization work underway.
Core platforms include Snowflake (data warehouse), Tableau (analytics), Alteryx (data preparation), and R for modeling. Identity and access managed via Okta, CyberArk, and Azure Entra. Network infrastructure runs on Cisco platforms; development uses Azure DevOps and GitHub Copilot.
Major initiatives include global back-office transformation, pricing tool modernization, advanced analytics for protection and retirement products, and a strategic reinsurance platform overhaul. Pricing process improvements and new rating factor assessments are underway.
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