Job ID: 12499

Entity: AXA Group Operations

Join our team to innovate cloud-based solutions that power critical risk assessment applications. Leverage your expertise in C#, Azure, and DevOps to drive efficiency, security, and performance in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Ready to make an impact? Let's build the future together!

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.

The AXA GO ‘CAT NAT Risks’ product is composed of 8 different applications fully inhouse and is critical to assess the level of P&C Cat Insurance. GO is operating (applicative development and infrastructure) with the mission from AXA GIE to evolve the framework to recent strategic decision (move external services to AXA, enhance internal model, integrate the reinsurance scope, develop pricing capacities).

Operating within an Azure Cloud environment, the product is supported by a multidisciplinary team including a Product Manager, Project Managers, and a team of 18 technical experts across France and Portugal.

Main missions

• Your responsibilities, around 8 applications include:

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

Expected skills & experience

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

Experience and technical skills

• Experience with large volume / optimization in C#
• Rigor and Excellent level in algorithmics
• Good experience in using cloud APIs
• Good knowledge of cloud frameworks (Azure batch, serviceIO, etc.)
• Be keen about security when coding 
• Good experience in developing CI/CD pipelines
• C# and associated framework
• SQL
• 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 with Microsoft Azure cloud
• Experience on best practices in terms of architecture design (AD, Storage, Managed services, etc.)
• 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 7-8 years of professional experience

Soft skills / transversal skills

• Good communication skills
• Attentive, available and reliable with good team spirit
• Proactivity and results orientation (be able to propose new ideas to optimize memory, simulation time and infrastructure cost. )
• Willing to learn and accept new challenges (Be open to work with other languages)
• Degree in a relevant area, such as, Computer Science, Engineering
• Fluent in English

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.

What we offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

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

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.

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