(Assistant/Lead) Developer

XL CATLIN; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Developer to join their Pricing Analytics & Models team. This role is pivotal in a multi-year transformation initiative, focusing on creating a cloud-based platform for pricing models and analytics. You will collaborate with actuaries to enhance pricing algorithms and improve portfolio management. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in non-life insurance pricing, programming skills in SQL, VBA, R, and Python, and a passion for innovation. Join this dynamic team and contribute to shaping the future of insurance analytics!

Qualifications

• Experience in non-life insurance pricing and programming languages.
• Ability to work with global teams and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish a new platform for pricing models and support development.
• Create documentation and training for pricing actuaries.

Skills

non-life insurance pricing

SQL

VBA

R

Python

excellent communication skills

collaborative approach

detail-oriented

passion for innovation

Education

Bachelor's degree in mathematics

Bachelor's degree in statistics

Bachelor's degree in actuarial science

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Databricks

cloud services

Job description

Job Description - (Assistant/Lead) Developer (12002398D20240419)

Job Number:

12002398D20240419

(Assistant/Lead) Developer

Location: 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.

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. 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.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

1. 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.
2. Ensure that the pricing platform enables faster development of scalable models by a wide group of developers within Pricing & Analytics.
3. 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.
4. Provide the expertise necessary to establish technical and operational integrations between pricing tools and other internal systems, including connections to third-party data services.
5. 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.
6. Establish and leverage a strong network of relationships with operations and underwriting colleagues to ensure successful design, deployment, and adoption of pricing tools.
7. Identify and implement enhancements to pricing models and tools that improve performance and user experience.
8. Collaborate with information technology teams to provide day-to-day support for existing pricing tools and databases.
9. Support migration of existing pricing models to the new platform.

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

Required Attributes:

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

Desired Attributes:

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

Location

GB-GB-London

Work Locations

GB London 20 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0BG

Job Field

Data & Analytics

Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.