(Assistant / Lead) Developer

AXA Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is hiring an Assistant/Lead Developer in London. The role involves establishing a new platform for pricing models and enhancing pricing tools. Required skills include non-life insurance pricing experience and proficiency in SQL, VBA, R, and Python. Applicants should have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and excellent communication abilities. This opportunity is part of a transformative initiative in the insurance sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in non-life insurance pricing.
• Advanced technical aptitude with programming languages for actuaries and analytics.
• Ability to work with global teams, including IT staff.

Responsibilities

• Establish a new platform for pricing models.
• Ensure faster development of scalable models.
• Support migration of existing pricing models.

Skills

Non-life insurance pricing

SQL

VBA

R

Python

Excellent communication skills

Detail-oriented

Collaboration

Passion for innovation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or computer science

Job description

(Assistant / Lead) Developer

London, UK; Wroclaw, Poland

Pricing Analytics & Models (PAM) is a unit of AXA XL’s insurance division that enables product pricing actuaries and underwriters to harness information, deploy tools, and generate insights that improve portfolio management and increase profitability.The Pricing Models team within PAM works with pricing actuaries to design, build, and implement the algorithms that underpin premium calculations for the company’s global casualty, professional, property, and specialty lines.The Pricing Models team brings a special combination of actuarial expertise, technical knowledge, and coding skills necessary to engineer, maintain, and enhance those algorithms.

AXA XL is currently in the middle of a multi-year transformation initiative that will streamline and upgrade workflows across the enterprise.At the heart of that initiative is the creation of a cloud-based platform for developing models and delivering everyday analytics.With this new platform, AXA XL will improve the consistency, performance, and accuracy of its pricing tools.Our Pricing Models Developers are crucial contributors to this project – from shaping the technical plans for the new platform to defining the model code base to establishing the best practices for software development and model building across product lines, business units, and regions.

DISCOVER your opportunity

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Establish and support a new platform and development framework for pricing models that will : (a) incorporate developing reusable components such as a standardized user interface and common APIs; (b) enable consistent data capture across product lines, business units, and regions; and (c) define and enforce effective model versioning;
• Ensure that the pricing platform enables faster development of scalable models by a wide group of developers within Pricing & Analytics;
• Increase the ability of model developers and pricing actuaries to quickly and easily recalibrate pricing algorithms in response to portfolio performance, changes in market condition, or the discovery of new risk factors;
• Provide the expertise necessary to establish technical and operational integrations between pricing tools and other internal systems, including connections to third-party data services;
• Create technical documentation and deliver training for pricing actuaries to enable them to develop their own models and tools in accordance with company standards and industry best practices;
• Establish and leverage a strong network of relationships with operations and underwriting colleagues to ensure successful design, deployment, and adoption of pricing tools;
• Identify and implement enhancements to pricing models and tools that improve performance and user experience;
• Collaborate with information technology teams to provide day-to-day support for existing pricing tools and databases; and
• Support migration of existing pricing models to the new platform.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone with the following combination of abilities, skills, and experience :

Required Attributes

• Experience in non-life insurance pricing;
• Experience and advanced technical aptitude with common programming languages for actuaries and analytics (SQL, VBA, R, Python);
• Proven ability to work with global, multi-disciplinary teams, including information technology staff;
• Excellent communications skills, written and oral, with the proven ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences;
• A diligent, detail-oriented, collaborative, and collegial approach to project execution;
• A demonstrated passion for innovation and utilizing new technologies; and
• A bachelor’s degree, preferably in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or computer science.

Desired Attributes

• Knowledge of core actuarial concepts;
• Experience with the development of pricing models for commercial insurance;
• Knowledge of best practices for enterprise software development (coding principles and optimization, testing methods, version control, etc.);
• Experience with modern information technology infrastructure for analytics (cloud services, Databricks, etc.);
• Experience with the execution of a large-scale, corporate transformation or information technology project; and
• Experience as a manager of a team of consultants, technical experts, or other analytics professionals.

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.

By combining a comprehensive 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.

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