Application Manager

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Technically lead and manage Business Analysts, technical architects and developers including assignment of work.
• Assists RTE to manage SI Partners by helping to provide partner day to day direction on prioritization and decisions.
• Performs deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality. Assists to maintain development standards for design, coding etc.
• Act as liaison between SI partner team and stakeholders.
• Ensure technical team alignment with business expectations and delivery roadmap.
• Will liaise and consult with the Solution Architecture team to ensure design alignment with AXA XLs architecture strategy.
• Provide technical SME assistance for the Applications under your remit.
• Estimate work requests at various levels of confidence.
• Partners with Release Management to Coordinate Release Activities.
• Works with Operational Change Management team to ensure training materials and release notes are being delivered.
• Assist in Deployment Activities as required.
• Ensure full compliance to AXA standards of the products for the business (incl. Security & Data Privacy).
• Act as liaison between SI Partner team and stakeholders.
• Solid experience working in an Agile environment. Assist in Coordinating and Participate in Agile Ceremonies as required.
• Monitor Agile ceremonies and activities to ensure compliance with Digital Factory standards.

You will report to Delivery Lead.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Relevant years of hands-on work experience coding and developing complex applications.
• Relevant years of experience working in an Agile environment.
• Effective problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up ones sleeves to get the job done.
• Proficient in use of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, team city and Data dog.
• Timely and accurate completion of deliverables in a manner that is auditable, testable, and maintainable.
• Implementation consistent with solution design and business specifications.
• Ensure maintenance of technical integrity of changes made to systems.
• Adherence to development governance & SDLC standards.
• Team leadership abilities required, including experience leading and mentoring the team.
• Must be able to set priorities and multi-task.
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization, a business expertise is a plus.
• Prior work experience with Automation Technologies, creating strategic roadmaps and executing on those.
• Bachelors degree in the field of computer science, information systems or a related field.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
• Deep understanding of application development and support technologies.
• Prior work experience in an insurance or technology field preferred.
• Experience working with multiple vendor partners.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.