Tech Associate

The AXA XL Global Technology (GT) Graduate Program is a structured and immersive 18 months global program for graduates seeking a real responsibility and the opportunity to make a difference. The Program enables you to fast-track an international career and develop your leadership and technical skills through exposure in the leading Property & Casualty (P&C) insurer worldwide. The Program combines job rotations into a variety of GT areas including strategic projects, networking, training and development programs, study towards industry-recognized professional qualifications, and involvement in inclusion and diversity, climate and sustainability initiatives.Global Technology is the technology arm of AXA XL solving numerous business problems across the US, UK & Lloyds, Europe and Asia Pacific. Global Technology champions the application of cutting-edge technologies to advance AXA XL businesses and functions. It delivers capabilities based on deep technical expertise and business knowledge.

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• During the Program, you will complete a dedicated training path developing technical and soft skills as well as basic knowledge of the world of insurance
• Throughout the Program, you will have the opportunity to play an integral role on business-impact initiatives across our global business. You will have the guidance from our senior technical colleagues and get an opportunity to learn different technologies, understand the software development lifecycle, apply various methodologies like agile, scaled agile etc and gather deeper insights on adoption of various processes (DevOps, Deployment) and tools. All our environments are on Cloud. This will provide you with an opportunity to understand the architecture of cloud applications and understand the various Cloud services.
• Different applications, their purpose, technology (development), unit testing, using various tools to enable faster development and deployment (Devops tools, GitHub copilot, etc)
• Define and manage tasks, issues, risks, and action items.
• Design, build, test and implement an agile methodology''s values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions. Schedule and facilitate meetings and understand the decision-making process.
• Track Key performance indicators of success relevant to your scope of work
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across various platforms
• Collaborate with team members to ensure system availability and performance
• Support the planning and organization of demos, testing, UAT and Pilots/Dry runs.
• Ensuring collaboration with external teams and vendors.
• Prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.

You will report to Technical Delivery Manager.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Adept in one or many of the skills listed: Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Logic Design; Database Management Systems; Cloud Computing; Data Structure & Algorithms
• Proficiency in SQL with ability to write complex queries (joins, aggregations) and perform basic data analysis.
• Proven knowledge of code development and ability to identify performance improvements in the code implemented.
• Understand usage of AI tools and familiarity with prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel tools.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in simple terms

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Self-motivated, with the ability to organize and prioritize and complete tasks to tight deadlines
• Should be proactive, flexible and have a learning mindset
• Aware of Agile and Waterfall methodologies and tooling, e.g. MS Project, Jira.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills. Reliability and accuracy of analyses as key factors.
• Be comfortable in a highly dynamic environment and able to adapt to change.