Sr. Associate Application Developer

A Senior Devloper will oversee all development, production support and maintenance activities for one or more applications under a Delivery Team supporting Reserving Actuaries. The Reserving Actuaries team plays a crucial role in ensuring the company's compliance with regulatory requirements by accurately estimating and maintaining the financial reserves needed to cover future insurance obligations. Senior Developer will report to the Delivery Lead, have operational and administrative responsibility for developers and have operational responsibility for matrixed resources (Analysts, PMs, etc.) that support her/his application suite.

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Senior subject matter expert (SME) on the application delivery team supporting AXA XLs Actuarial Reserving business functions
• Work closely with key business stakeholders to manage applications that support critical Actuarial Reserving processes including monthly, quarterly and annual cycles to meet local, regulatory and AXA group deadlines
• Design and maintain solutions used for end-to-end data processing from Insurance systems through to Actuarial Databases and an Actuarial Reserving Reporting Systems working collaboratively with cross functional teams ensuring reserving data integrity throughout the architecture
• Provide hands on technical leadership in moving on-premise application to Public/Private cloud
• Support business managed applications ensuring adherence to AXA XL architecture and security design principles
• Deliver high impact bespoke and packaged solutions leveraging hands-on design, development, technical architecture experience and oversee development teams including internal staff and external vendor resources
• Guide developers and support teams on product direction, project execution, issue resolution, and provide escalation framework via governance
• Work to educate customers on best use of product and support sympathetic change to the product, clearly articulating trade-offs and risks
• Challenge requirements to ensure they are in alignment with product design and architecture
• Work with business and information security to identify security risks and finding solutions, including risk acceptance
• Support internal and external audits to ensure services are delivered in a controlled fashion without undue risk to the company
• Manage service levels to ensure all commitments are met and any variances mitigated to reduce impact on overall cost, schedule, quality for business needs
• Work with Technical Architect in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity
• Identify and prioritize proactive maintenance action items
• Review and prioritize product defects
• Identify and champion improvement opportunities
• Estimate work requests at various levels of confidence and manage estimates against actuals to ensure change controls are appropriately managed
• Manage risk to deliver on service levels commitments and project milestones
• Serve as a point of escalation for risks and issues
• Govern internal change processes and development documentation

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 IT solutions design /development/release/delivery
• Relevant hands-on experience with MS Azure Cloud Computing Techologies and Databricks along with Data Warehousing and ETL concepts
• Experience in projects transitioning on-premise applications to public/Private cloud
• Experience in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS delivery
• Experience in T-SQL: Stored Procedures, Functions, Complex Joins, # tables, Pivot/Unpivot
• Knowledge of Data Modeling concepts: Table/ Index design, Partitioning
• Proficient with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall
• Hands-on experience in software application change and release management
• Prior experience of leading projects with waterfall and agile methodology
• Experience in supporting End Users
• Ability to co-ordinate to solve technical and production issues

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Ability to work resiliently with minimal supervision
• Able to organize self and others including effective scheduling, prioritization, and time management skills
• Proven track record to provide a consistently first-class customer service
• Ability to build effective working relationships, establishing credibility with business clients
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills are required
• Insurance domain knowledge
• MS Azure and Databricks
• Cloud certifications
• Experience with Power BI or similar data visualization tools.