Technical Lead

Bangalore, India

We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters. The Technical Lead role is the lead technologist for a product or platform. Third-party products with high out-of-box implementation most likely will have their own technical architecture roles, so company Technical Lead mainly manage internal assets. Technical Lead perform deliverable reviews and manage the measurement of deliverable quality within the Delivery Team.

What You’ll Be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Specification of technologies, application architectures and data structures as a basis for application change for internal assets.
• Producing quality, secure, scalable, high-performing, and resilient designs for new or improved services.
• Led the systems analysts, developers, and testers in sympathetic change to the applications.
• Monitor change and perform reviews as needed.
• For internal assets, support Application Managers 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 an exception approval process, and remediation where and when possible.
• Monitor application services to ensure performance consistently meets non-functional requirements (response time, security, etc.).
• Work with the Application Manager in defining, analyzing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity.
• Leads the DevOps team and developers in targeted use of DevOps for their application platform assets.
  
  

You will report to the Delivery Lead.

What You Will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills And Abilities

• Uphold technical integrity of internal assets at the logical and physical level, ensuring designs and changes are done based on an effective architectural foundation.
• Working experience with React and TypeScript, MS SQL, Azure and Container (K8S/openshift).
• Should have hands on experience with Java / .NET.
• Experience leading and mentoring development and architecture professionals.
• Lead the analysts and developers in sympathetic technical change to the product.
• Assist in identifying 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.).
  
  

Desired Skills And Abilities

• 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.
• Expert-level experience with more than one key technology.
• Software Engineering background with strong technical background.
• Must have Agile mindset and has ability to learn
  
  

Who WE Are

Ability to review the work of others for accuracy and completeness.

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 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.

Learn more at axaxl.com

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
  
  

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society - are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature - from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard - by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day - the Global Day of Giving.
  
  

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.