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This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk-taking and superior risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined, and ethical corporate culture.
As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.
To support our growth objectives at AXIS, we are investing significantly in our Exposure and Modelling systems. This position is for a Senior Software Engineer in the Reinsurance and Enterprise Risk, Pricing & Modelling Systems department which is responsible for the development and maintenance of AXIS’ reinsurance as well as enterprise-wide pricing, modelling and exposure management systems and applications.
You will be providing your experience, expertise, critical thinking, and creativity to help evolve the Exposure and Modelling ecosystem in new and innovative ways while collaborating as part of a dynamic and agile team. As part of a global team, you will be working with highly experienced talent across different time zones to enhance existing solutions and develop new ones to deliver and integrate capabilities across Exposure and Modelling. In your role as a Senior Software Engineer located in our Halifax office you will closely collaborate with the Cyber and Property Modelling teams on the insurance as well as reinsurance side and play a key role in developing AXIS’ next-generation exposure and modelling tool.
As a Senior Software Engineer within the Exposure and Modelling Development team, you will primarily support the Property and Cyber Modelling business teams.
In your role as a senior member of the team you will be expected to take the lead on various workstreams. In practice this means that you will be expected to:
Offer technical expertise in the form of overall solution design
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London, GBR
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Halifax, CAN
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New York City, USA
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Collaborate with other adjacent IT teams such as Platform Engineering, DevOps and Data and Analytics
Set tasks for other more junior team members and offer mentorship when needed
Take overall responsibility for code quality and delivery of a feature through all stages from requirement setting, through to testing and final release into production
Furthermore, you will play a key role in continuing to develop a culture of software and data engineering excellence within the Exposure and Modelling Development team. This includes embracing best practices such as submitting detailed pull requests, appropriate testing of work, peer review and thoroughly understanding user requirements.
About You:
We encourage you to bring your own experience and expertise to the table, so while there are some qualifications and experiences, we need you to have, we are open to discussing how your individual knowledge might lend itself to fulfilling this role and help us achieve our goals.
Technical Skills
Backend development using the Microsoft/Azure stack (c#, SQL) with the proven ability to independently design and build new solutions from the ground up
Thorough understanding of object oriented and functional programming paradigms
Experience in source code management (git), continuous testing, and software delivery.
Commercial experience of industry standards, best practice, and development methodologies.
Real-life experience with Agile methodologies.
A test-driven approach to developing software
Proficiency using AI tooling
Business Domain Skills
An analytical mindset and the ability to reliably translate complex business domain requirements and algorithms into production ready code
The ability to find ways to quickly and efficiently query and sense check a variety of data types to find and identify anomalies and issues
Soft Skills
A collaborative approach to working is essential, whether at the team level, with our business customers or other teams within IT
A natural curiosity that drives constant improvement both in terms of the technologies we use and the business problems that we’re trying to solve
Big Data (Databricks, Snowflake)
Familiarity with and a passion for architectural design patterns and concepts such as Event Driven, Message Driven, Microservices and Serverless
Front end (web technologies, JavaScript frameworks such as React and Angular)
Business Domain Knowledge
A background in specialty insurance and reinsurance, working with exposure data and modelled loss data
Any previous experience that proves a high level of numeracy and an eye for detail when working with data
In this role, you are required to be in the office 3 days per week.
Publicly traded Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer serving businesses through AXIS Insurance and AXIS Re.
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