.Net Technical Lead

What will youressential responsibilities include

• Excellent understanding of the applications under their portfolio, including function, business and key operational processes and ensuring teams deliver value to the business with the appropriate stakeholders regardless of methodology (Waterfall, Agile, etc).
• Ensures the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is followed consistently & effectively through CI/CD, tooling, and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Delivery of complex software solutions, both alongside other developers but also with hands-on coding activity.
• Partner with appropriate key business stakeholders and key GT team members to understand and document business requirements and changes required for the applications.
• Ensure that requirements are communicated clearly to the development team and accurately reflect in the final product.
• Responsible to gather estimates for applications that this role is responsible for and partnering with appropriate team members to support the estimation process.
• Work with the appropriate team members within GT to ensure security is integrated into the development process and are compliant with AXA XL's security policies.
• Responsible for ensuring security compliance, security controls are implemented and maintained, security assessments & audits, RAMP management, AXA XL's governance forums, and anything else security related.
• This role is responsible for ensuring that the team complies with relevant audit requirements and standards including remediation activities, documentation of processes and procedures.
• Manage vendors including contract negotiations in partnership with Procurement to drive on agreed business outcomes, ensuring stable and resilient production support services.
• This role is also required to define, negotiate statement of work (SOW) with vendors, particularly when outsourcing development and/or support which includes defining the work scope of work, deliverables, timelines, pricing, and ensuring that the SOW aligns with AXA XL's business and IT strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to the development team, while also encouraging the team to take ownership of technical decisions and solutions and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• This may include driving the right key technical decisions alongside the Technical Architect and Principal Engineer ensuring that they are reviewing code, and that the team is following best practices for software development.
• The Technical Delivery Manager is responsible for ensuring that developers adhere to coding standards and best practices, through code reviews, training, and continuous improvement.
• Active resource management, which involves ensuring that the right resources are assigned to the right projects at the right time, and that they are utilized effectively and efficiently.
• Perform deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality.
• You will report to the Head of Application Solutions.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Application changes complete on-time, to a target level of quality.
• Excellent .NET development experience, as well as experience working with APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with Azure capabilities, including Azure Service Bus and Topics, Azure Event Hub, Azure Functions and Cosmo DB.
• Experience of containerization, preferably OpenShift Container Platform.
• Timely and accurate completion of Software Development Lifecycle deliverables in a manner that is auditable, testable, and maintainable.
• Implementation consistent with solution design and business specifications.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and DevSecOps processes would be preferred.
• Ensure for technical integrity of changes made to systems.
• Adherence to development governance & SDLC standards.
• Team leadership abilities required, including experience leading and mentoring development professionals.
• Must be able to set priorities and multi-task.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Familiarity with IBM iSeries and the Genius insurance product beneficial.
• Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
• Broad understanding of application development and support technologies.
• Prior work experience in an insurance or technology field preferred.