Delivery Lead

Job Description: **Delivery Lead** Bangalore, Karnataka, India As the Delivery lead this role will oversee application(s) within Global Technology (GT) that require analysis, development, production support \& maintenance activities. This role requires responsibility operationally and administratively for other team members (BA, PMs, Developers, etc.). This role may work in different methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, etc.). This role will oversee delivery across a number of products, potentially managing a number of staff, including Technical Delivery Managers. **What you’ll be DOING** What will your essential responsibilities include? * Robust understanding of the applications and products under their portfolio, including function, business and key operational process and ensuring teams deliver value to the business with the appropriate stakeholders regardless of methodology (Waterfall, Agile, etc.). * Ensures the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is followed consistently \& effectively through CI/CD, tooling, and collaboration with stakeholders. * A keen ability to execute and deliver results, including delivering technical projects on time and on budget through planning, execution, and delivery. * Approach tasks proactively and anticipate needs of the business \& team members. * Think quickly and have the flexibility to (re\-) prioritize multiple work streams/ projects/ tasks without sacrificing quality. Act with a sense of urgency. * Partner with appropriate key business stakeholder and key GT team members to understand and document business requirements and changes required for the applications. * Ensure that requirements are communicated clearly to the development team and accurately reflected in the final product. * Work with the Business Analysts to ensure that requirements/user stories are well\-defined, prioritized, and understood by the development team. Ensure collaborative refinement sessions are scheduled with the team and stakeholders. * Responsible for gathering estimates for applications and products that this role is responsible for and partnering with appropriate team members to support the estimation process. * Work with the appropriate team members within GT to ensure security is integrated into the development process and are compliant with AXA XL’s security policies. Responsible for ensuring security compliance, security controls are implemented and maintained, security assessments \& audits, risk management, AXA XL’s governance forums, and anything else security related. * This role is responsible for ensuring that the team complies with relevant audit requirements and standards including remediation activities, documentation of processes and procedures. * Continuously review and improve processes and practices to increase efficiency and effectiveness. This includes implementing Agile/Scrum methodologies, automating processes, and leveraging new technologies. * Responsible for developing, mentoring and providing HR oversight for assigned team members. * Manage vendors, including contract negotiations in partnership with Procurement to drive on agreed business outcomes, ensuring stable and resilient production support services. This role is also required to define, negotiate statement of work (SOW) with vendors, particularly when outsourcing development and/or support, which includes defining the work scope of work, deliverables, timelines, pricing, and ensuring that the SOW aligns with AXA XL’s business and IT strategy. * People \& Workload Management: Active people management, which involves ensuring that the right resources are assigned to projects, and that they are utilized effectively and efficiently. You will report to Head of Digital Factory Delivery. **What you will BRING** We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: **Required Skills and Abilities:** * Influential Leadership: Lead, motivate, and drive the team to foster a collaborative environment and empower team members to take ownership of their work while providing guidance, mentorship, and performance management. * Effective Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, presentation and influencing skills are essential. * Stakeholder Management: Ensure regular communication with stakeholders (including communicating project status), manage stakeholder expectations, ensure stakeholder needs are being met and resolve conflicts alongside appropriate GT team members. * Planning and Execution: Expert level experience in planning, executing and delivering complex, large\-scale initiatives or operation area on time and within budget. Ability to develop and manage project budgets and optimize resource utilization required. Must be highly detailed oriented, well organized, able to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously in a fast\-paced environment and serve as a point of escalation for issues. * Agile Methodologies: Robust experience understanding Agile methodologies required. * People Management: Compelling experience developing, mentoring and providing HR oversight for assigned team members. * Vendor Management: Effective working experience with vendor management including contractor negotiations, outcome\-based contracts, and effectively managing vendors \& contractors. **Desired Skills and Abilities:** * Relevant years' experience leading large, complex projects. * Technical expertise in DevSec Ops practices preferred. * Understanding of delivery and maintenance of applications in the cloud. * Proficient with MS Office Suite. **Who WE are** 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. Learn more at axaxl.com **What we OFFER** **Inclusion** 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 enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and 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…