Software Development Expert

About AXA

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

About the entity

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation. 

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

·       State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience

·       State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks

·       High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities 

Job position pitch 

If you are as enthusiastic as we are about the new opportunities in the Cloud journey and allowing AXA Entities and AXA Group to properly evaluate Financial Risks, then we have the right position for you. We need experts like you to make the difference in the Risk Management area. 

Where will you be in the organization?

The division 

Group Technology Operations (GTO)aims at designing, developing, and operating Global AXA IT products, delivering them to AXA Entities and the AXA Group, at the right level of quality of service and cost and aligned with business-driven priorities. Its missions can be summarized in four main activities: global product delivery, global product portfolio management, day-to-day operations management, and entities proximity management.

The department / team 

You will join the Corporate Functions Global Products department. In its “IT for Business” duty, our department designs, builds and operates end user global applications in the domain of Corporate & Support Functions, organized in 24 products within 6 lines of products (Finance, Investment, Procurement, Risk Management, HR/Communication, Compliance).

Our main mission is to be the preferred partner of the Business families in Corporate Functions while ensuring excellence and consistency across our products in:

·       Implementing, operating and managing Group and/or Global Solutions

·       Delivering advisory services in answer to Business requirements and stakes

·       Leveraging a market leading right-shored delivery model

·       Continuously integrating customer centricity, efficiency, innovation & technology in our operating model

You will integrate a high performing team of ~200 experts, mainly located in France and Portugal (and supported by offshored managed services), with a strong focus on delivery, collaboration, commitment and value creation, where you will have the opportunity to learn and develop yourself in cutting-edge technologies and engage in activities that relate directly with business processes and functions, working together with the colleagues from the Group Corporate departments.

About the job

Job purpose 

Our department is committed to offering to our customer entities cloud-based solutions that run with the expected performance and robustness, while being efficient and cost-effective. 

In order to serve the production of mandatory Solvency 2 ratio, we are managing 8 AXA-GO products, regrouping 28 IT global applications.

The AXA GO product ‘Financial Risk’ measures financial risk of all AXA financial positions for assets and derivatives consolidated into one single platform based on Markit EDM software from S&P provider. You will join a team of 2 technical experts and 1 Product Manager.

Main mission 

Your responsibilities include:

·       Support business users

·       Configuration of Markit EDM software

·       Development of UIs, reporting and new data models in the tool

·       Incident resolution

·       Technical tests

·       Managing business requests: incident resolution on the tools, new enhancements implementation, request for support, request for information

·       Ensure, implement and follow-up compliance of the applications, linked to AXA standards (security, internal controls, data privacy …)

·       Qualify, analyze, design and deploy new business needs

·       Define and execute test plans

·       Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration processes to increase efficiency, consistency, and reliability

·       Active participation in the Move To Cloud project of Markit application (planned in 2024/2025)

·       Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, working with other IT teams as Network and infrastructure to resolve issues quickly.

About you 

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills: 

Experience and Technical skills

·       Expertise in using Azure DevOps and related tools such as Visual Studio, Git, Jenkins, and Docker.

·       Knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery/deployment (CD) concepts and methodologies.

·       Experience on SQL database management

·       Experience with Software development (ideally: Markit EDM from S&P editor)

·       Experience in java and C# development

·       Experience on best practices in terms of architecture design

·       Experience on automation of deployment of applications

·       Strong understanding of Software development processes, including Agile and DevOps methodologies.

·       Solid understanding of Software development lifecycles and Agile methodologies.

·       A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field with 5-6 years of professional experience

Soft skills / transversal skills

·       Problem solving mindset

·       Stakeholder management

·       Communication and collaboration skills, adaptive to different levels of the organization, from executive forums to technical teams

·       Autonomy and self-drive, but also teamwork and leadership

·       Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving

·       English proficiency

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of
respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.