Scientist - Data Platform Optimizer

**Flexible Work Eligible**: None

**DISCOVER your opportunity**

AXA XL recognizes digital, data, and information assets are critical for the business, both in terms of managing risk and enabling new business opportunities. Data Science and Applied AI assets should not only be high quality but also drive a sustained enterprising advantage and deliver an excellent experience to our internal, and external customers, and improve efficiency. Our Innovation, Data & Analytics (IDA) function is focused on driving innovation by optimizing how we leverage digital, data, and AI to drive strategy and differentiate ourselves from the competition.

Our tech stack continues to evolve: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Power BI, Collibra, Databricks, Pyspark, Harness CI/CD, OpenShift, GitHub, JIRA

**DISCOVER your opportunity**
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Act as a data engineering expert and partner to Global Technology and data consumers in controlling the complexity and cost of the data platform, whilst enabling performance, governance, and maintainability of the estate.
- Understand current and future data consumption patterns, and architecture (granular level), and partner with Architects to make sure optimal design of data layers.
- Led and hands-on execution of research into new technologies such as Delta tables, graph databases, and observability answers. Formulating frameworks for the assessment of new technology vs business benefit, implications for data consumers.
- Act as a best practice expert, and blueprint creator of ways of working such as testing, logging, CI/CD, observability, and release, enabling rapid growth in data inventory and utilization of Data Science Platform.
- Design Business Object, Logical, Physical, and Semantic Models at the enterprise and/or individual line of business and/or product level
- Design prototypes and work in a fast-paced iterative solution delivery model.

In this role, you will report to the Data Platform Optimization Division Lead.

**SHARE your talent**

**SHARE your talent**
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+years of programming experience in SQL. Experience with Databricks is a plus.
- Solid experience writing, optimizing, and analyzing SQL and data pipelines, with a robust capability to interpret complex data requirements and architect solutions
- Robust familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and workflow.

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Ability to interpret complex data requirements and architect solutions
- Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with robust business acumen
- Understanding of Microservice Architecture, System Integration, and Agile development methodology
- Knowledge of Azure cloud computing platform with Azure Synapse, ADLS, and ADF.
- Familiarity with Python or Scala is a plus
- Familiarity with Reporting software - MicroStrategy and Power BI are a plus
- Passion for data and experience working within a data-driven organization
- You care about what you do, and what we do

**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 robust 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 answers, we partner with those who move the world forward.

**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 robust, 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 committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

**Sustainability**

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constant