Solution Lead

**About the role**:
It's an exciting time to join AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes and as part of this, we're looking for a Solution Lead to join us.

Reporting into the Solutions Manager, you'll provide hands on technical expertise within a Product Team and be the driving force in guiding software development, delivery, and continuous improvement. You'll also support resource allocation, recruitment, retention, development of people and performance management.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, such as part-time or condensed hours, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Researching, designing and implementing technical solutions that meet stakeholder needs and deliver tangible benefit to our business
- Guiding and contributing to the delivery of code
- Proactively driving continuous improvement of the wider engineering community & act in a mentoring capacity
- Upholding best practice architecture, design, development, test and deployment principles
- Working with stakeholders to ensure delivery plans and product improvements are feasible and aligned to business goals
- Ensuring impediments, debt and enablers are clearly communicated and understood by key stakeholders
- Actively participating in leader training to ensure management and coaching skills are kept up to date

**About you**:
**What we’re looking for**:

- Proven experience in hands-on software engineering
- Expert in.NET framework/ C#
- Knowledge or experience of React JS is desirable but not essential
- Excellent knowledge of development lifecycles
- Proven experience providing leadership and managing people
- Working knowledge of agile practices and principles e.g. Scrum, Kanban
- Strong decision making and influencing skills
- Good collaboration skills

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

**What we offer**:
At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

- Competitive annual salary of up to £75,400 dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
- AXA employee discounts
- Gym benefits

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**About AXA**:
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.

You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.