Job Description
Job Number:
Lead Pricing Model Developer (R Specialist) (12002398D20240419)
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London, UK
The Pricing & Analytics team is currently in the middle of an exciting multi-year journey, alongside Ops & Tech, to develop a new cloud-based platform that will be used to build and host our pricing tools. This creates an opportunity to significantly improve our pricing models with respect to accuracy, consistency, and performance. The Lead Developer will be at the forefront when it comes to developing and maintaining the new platform, shaping our model code base, and instilling best practices across the coding community.
What will your essential responsibilities include?
1. Support the new pricing model platform, including leading development of reusable components such as standardized UI, pricing APIs, enabling consistent data capture, and model versioning.
2. Supply documentation for pricing actuaries to develop their own pricing tools, providing a common framework to easily leverage best practices.
3. Ensure that the platform enables faster development of pricing tools with scalability across models and to a wide group of developers within Pricing.
4. Increase the ability to measure calibration of pricing models and make changes quickly to recalibrate models that are not aligned with plan.
5. Improve consistency of pricing model data capture and ability to reuse that data for other purposes.
6. Facilitate connections to third party services/data and integration with other internal systems.
7. Improve user experience within pricing models.
8. Establish and leverage a strong network of relationships with Ops & Tech, Pricing, and UW to design and implement solutions.
9. Support migration of existing pricing models to new platform.
10. Create consistent technical documentation for pricing models within the platform.
11. Effectively manage junior resources to migrate and improve pricing models.
You will report to Head of Pricing Models.
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Required Skills and Abilities:
1. Experience of insurance pricing.
2. Excellent communication skills to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
3. Technical aptitude with experience programming (R/Python, Shiny, SQL, VBA) and working with other technical teams (Ops & Tech).
4. Bachelor Degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Applied Math, Statistics, or related field.
5. Ability to think strategically with a passion for innovation and a desire to utilize new technologies.
6. Pragmatic and results-driven.
Desired Skills and Abilities:
1. Experience working with microservice architecture.
2. Coding best practices (code and code base structure organisation).
3. Experience with core actuarial concepts and with pricing models for commercial lines of business.
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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.
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.
Location
Location: GB-GB-London
Work Locations: GB London 20 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0BG
Job Field
Job Field: Data & Analytics
Schedule
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type
Job Type: Standard
AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law.
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