Technical Architect (.NET/Salesforce)
US East coast
As we develop an enterprise-wide Digital Factory strategy to transform our business, we are seeking an Insurance Technical Architect with significant Salesforce background. The Insurance Technical Architect is a hands-on, execution focused role helping translate the Insurance strategy, define architecture, and deliver the solution. In this role you will have an understanding of our Insurancesystems and processes and function as an Insurance architecture subject matter expert for our various projects. Your expertise in Insurance products will help guide and reimagine solutions for US, APAC, Europe and Lloyd’s insurance.
The position is responsible for providing I.T. leadership and solutions for major transformation programs. Major focus for this role is to provide technical leadership in AXA XL Insurance application changes and data flow and oversee delivery of technical changes. Will need to work collaboratively with vendor resources. An ideal candidate for this role is expected to have a significant hands-on technical leadership in Salesforce, Microsoft .Net VB.Net/C# .Net, Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, WCF, Web API
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
• Design and technical delivery of products
• Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services
• Lead the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications
• Partner with engineers, DevOps engineers, administrators, and other roles responsible for implementing solutions on Azure to ensure leveraging sound infrastructure solution options
• Accountable for leading technical project delivery within the applications landscape
• Provide DevOps standards across value streams, design CI/CD pipelines, and implement automated deployment and gating mechanisms
• Handle multiple tech initiatives in Agile delivery models.
• Support Product Owners to develop and maintain the Product Roadmap
• Define and maintain development standards such as system and data design, coding, etc.
• Maintain a capacity plan with historical performance metrics, a future forecast, and a capacity model to ensure services and infrastructure deliver performance and growth targets in a cost effective and proactive manner
• Manage architecture exceptions for the application, including identifying, documenting, taking through exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.)
• Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.
The Technical Architect reports to the Release Train Engineer (Delivery Lead)
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
• Significant hands-on experience in Salesforce, Microsoft .Net VB.Net/C# .Net, Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, WCF, Web API
• Proficiency with working in Agile delivery model
• Experience with MS Azure preferred
• Prior work experience in an insurance field preferred
• Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes done based on clear architectural foundation.
• Experience leading and mentoring development and architecture professionals
• Lead the analysts and developers in sympathetic technical change to the product
• Assist to identify proactive maintenance work
• Develop, own and publish the product technical architecture and design documentation
• Identify technical resources required to deliver the service and maintain plans for the short-, mid-, and long-term to support business cases for technical investments (upgrades, etc.)
• Translates the high-level designs into the technical specifications to facilitate efficient and effective development and unit testing
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
• Advanced skills in developing tools, frameworks and processes intended to maximize software quality and minimize time-to-delivery
• Ability to mentor and guide developers on software architecture
• Solid understanding of contemporary systems design
• Able to organize self and others including effective scheduling, prioritization, and time management skills, completing tasks to tight deadlines.
• Proven track record to provide a consistently first-class customer service internally and/or externally
• Ability to build effective working relationships (Internally/Externally), establishing credibility amongst a wide and demanding client group
• Comfortable taking ownership and accountability for own work and for the team, identifying the need for action (using initiative) whilst working effectively within a team
FIND your future
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business – property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
Diversity & Inclusion
We know that a diverse workforce and inclusive culture enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attracting and retaining the most diverse workforce possible, while creating a strong, inclusive culture where everyone is welcome and can contribute and reach their highest potential.
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index – 2017, 2018
• Signatory to the CEO Action for Diversity
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
• Twelve Colleague Resource Groups around the Globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The pay range for this position is $95,000 – $186,500. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues’ pay.