Developer

Background AXA Personal Lines is a division of AXA UK and the AXA Global Group. We provide personal insurance products such as motor, home and travel to our customers directly, via our corporate partners, intermediaries and also through Swiftcover.com.

Our culture is simple, energetic and imaginative. We are looking for people who can get the job done and enjoy the rewards.  We need you to be proactive, enthusiastic and thrive on taking responsibility in a fast-paced environment where opportunities to develop and progress are encouraged.

The role

• Quality Assurance & Support – Ensure completed work meets required standards of quality, and develop working practices to achieve improvements in both productivity and quality.
• To design and develop ensuring strong functionality and optimisation.
• Communication - Communicating effectively with team members, development / delivery managers and internal / external customers.
• Personal Development of self and assisting others.
• Work with development / project/programme managers to produce a plan that enables the timely delivery of the various projects, small changes and bug fixes.
• Understand the business / delivery requirements and relate these to technical requirements.
• Submit design, code and unit tests for approval.
• Ensure all developments adhere to all quality and security standards.  (Unit tests, owasp standards etc…).
• Conduct each phase of the software development lifecycle ensuring timely delivery of all activities across the projects
• Investigate and resolve problems
• Plan and undertake changes to software/hardware as agreed with the business
• Assess user requirements and formulate technical specifications that are cost effective and accurately meet the identified needs of the business
• Contribute to the implementation of new and modified systems
• To undertake relevant training and maintain competences in relation to Agile development.
• To undertake relevant training and maintain competences in relation to Payment Card Industry
• Security Standard Policies and comply with the specified requirements.
• To comply with the principles of Treating Customers Fairly and to ensure that the fair treatment of customers is a key factor in your work.
  

Skills, knowledge and behaviour

• Web development skills .Net, C#, HTML, XML, Javascript,  CSS, JQuery.
• Experience of SQL Server development
• Experience of  Agile practices is desirable
• 2 years + experience in e-Commerce development
• Experience of application development in the insurance or financial sector is desirable
• BizTalk experience is desirable
• Experience of working in a web facing / customer environment.
• Experience of a client / server environment.
• Knowledge of methodologies for developing, building and configuring a system / network.
• To carry out maintenance and support of assigned systems.
• Ability to structure and create technical documentation.
• Analytical skills. 
• Must be methodical and structured in approach to design, development, unit testing, problem solving and testing.
• Strong attention to detail and quality.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Good administrative and organisational skills.
• Ability to work on multiple simultaneous tasks and able to work in a team or on your own.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, skills and methodologies.
• Willingness to expand and develop your existing skills through in-house and / or external training.
• Enthusiasm for web based systems.
  

Additional Information For further information about this role please contact Mike.Eggington@swiftcover.com.