Application Manager Job in Bengaluru at AXA XL

AXA XL is hiring for the role of Application Manager!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Technically lead and manage Business Analysts, technical architects and developers including assignment of work.
• Assists RTE to manage SI Partners by helping to provide partner day to day direction on prioritization and decisions
• Performs deliverable reviews and manage measurement of deliverable quality. Assists to maintain development standards for design, coding etc.
• Act as liaison between SI partner team and stakeholders.
• Ensure technical team alignment with business expectations and delivery roadmap.
• Will liaise and consult with the Solution Architecture team to ensure design alignment with AXA XL’s architecture strategy
• Provide technical SME assistance for the insurance billing and payment solutions (Ex. Guidewire, Majesco, SAP). Estimate work requests at various levels of confidence
• Partners with Release Management to Coordinate Release Activities
• Works with Operational Change Management team to ensure training materials and release notes are being delivered
• Assist in Deployment Activities as required.
• Ensure full compliance to AXA standards of the products for the business (incl. Security & Data Privacy) 
• Act as liaison between SI Partner team and stakeholders
• Solid experience working in an Agile environment. Assist in Coordinating and
• Participate in Agile Ceremonies as required.
• Monitor Agile ceremonies and activities to ensure compliance with Digital Factory standards.

Requirements:

• Relevant years of hands-on work experience with complex applications.
• Relevant years of experience working in an Agile environment.
• Relevant years of experience working on Guidewire platforms.
• Proficient in use of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, team city and Data dog
• Timely and accurate completion of deliverables in a manner that is auditable, testable, and maintainable.
• Implementation consistent with solution design and business specifications
• Ensure for technical integrity of changes made to systems.
• Adherence to development governance & SDLC standards
• Team leadership abilities required, including experience leading and mentoring development professionals.
• Must be able to set priorities and multi-task.
• Prior work experience with Commercial Lines of Insurance.
• Proficiency with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
• Broad understanding of application development and support technologies
• Prior work experience in an insurance or technology field preferred
• Prior experience working with multiple vendor partners.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc.  Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
• Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science, information systems or a related field preferred