Associate Scientist

**Associate Scientist**
Gurgaon/Bangalore, India

**DISCOVER your opportunity**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Lead and manage a team responsible for providing production support for our MDM project, ensuring timely incident resolution and proactive maintenance.
- Utilize advanced knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL to troubleshoot and optimize database performance, ensuring high availability and reliability in a production environment.
- Drive database migration efforts, coordinating with cross-functional teams to execute seamless and efficient migrations with mínimal impact on production systems.
- Collaborate with technical teams to integrate Azure services such as Databricks, ADF, Function Apps, and other cloud-based technologies into the production database environment, while ensuring high availability and performance.
- Manage database servers, leveraging expertise in server management, Unix commands, and shell scripting to maintain smooth operations and address production-related incidents.
- Champion master data management practices, including data governance, quality assurance, and integration strategies, to ensure data integrity and consistency in a production setting.

You will report to the Scientist-MDM.

**SHARE your talent**

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

- Proven experience in leading a production support MDM team, with an excellent focus on incident resolution and proactive maintenance.
- Expertise in SQL and PL/SQL, with a comprehensive understanding of database administration and performance optimization in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with Azure services, including Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Function Apps in a production support context.
- Proficiency in database migration strategies and execution, with a focus on minimizing production impact during migration activities.
- In-depth knowledge of server management, Unix commands, and shell scripting,
- specifically tailored for production support operations.
- Familiarity with master data management principles and best practices, particularly in the context of production data environments.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, especially in a high-pressure production support environment.

**Desired Skills and Abilities**:

- Experience with CI/CD tools like Harness, JFrog, and OpenShift.
- Docker containerization expertise.

**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 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.

**Inclusion & Diversity**

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 a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can 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

**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 insp