Full stack .NET Developer – Brussels

Job title:

Full stack .NET Developer – Brussels

Company:

Ageas

Job description

Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning of 200 years, offering Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance, and is also engaged in reinsurance activities. As an international insurance company, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors. Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. It represents a staff force of about 50,000 people and reported annual inflows of over EUR 17 billion in 2023. Ageas aims to be a Great place to Grow for all its people, while always staying true to its four values: care, share, deliver and dare. It fosters an inclusive culture, that values diversity and encourages everyone to get the best out of their talents. Ageas has been re-certified as Top Employer in 2024. The vibrant Ageas Corporate Centre in Brussels is home to a variety of Group level functions including, amongst others, Risk, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Strategy, Business Development and Corporate Communications. It sets out the long term strategy for Ageas and coordinates numerous initiatives across the Group to help realise the strategic ambitions. The Corporate Centre also facilitates knowledge and skills sharing amongst its local operating entities and JV’s, creating strong connections and leveraging on local strengths. It represents the Ageas Group towards external parties, managing relations with analysts, retail and institutional investors, regulators, rating agencies and the media.DepartmentConsisting of 5 international members, the Risk Tooling and Performance Team is responsible of risk tooling development, testing and maintenance along with ensuring their reliability and optimized performance in a context of required governance. Their activities rely on Ageas-wide business specifications and requirements mainly stemming from regulatory reporting frameworks (e.g., Solvency II, IFRS17, LAT, …). Their work typically starts with assessing, capturing, and translating business needs (e.g., risk calculation changes, regulatory changes, new input/output requirements, user experience) into technical implementation requirements. Based on that, they design and build risk platforms / analytics solutions / automation tools. They support their international risk user community during their activities while using the tools.Objective of the positionDesign, build, test and document risk valuation and analytics solutions as well as automation tools to support stakeholders needs or improve their user-experience in the context of usage of Ageas Group models and tools.Responsibilities

• Design and build risk analytics solutions and automation tools to support stakeholders needs or improve their user-experience in the context of usage of Ageas Group models and tools
• Assess, capture, and translate complex business processes and specifications into technical implementation requirements and structured analytics use cases
• Advice on all possible IT impacts and aspects for all functionalities requested by business
• Proactively broaden and deepen relationships by working closely with the different stakeholders (business and technical) to convert the requirements into practical solutions and at the same time challenge the status quo and look for improvements
• Ensure timely tooling delivery following the integrated release calendar
• Make sure that improvement requests meet functionalities requested by model managers covering both group and local operating company needs
• Track, communicate, and manage risks and opportunities surrounding all tools provided to the (international) business users in close collaboration with the Modelling & Reporting Team and the MIT Transversal Role
• Contribute to the creation, maintenance, and enrichment of the risk tooling documentation
• Contribute to and smoothen the integration/transition of new projects/scopes from project mode to Business As Usual (BAU)
• Implement, maintain, pre-UAT, provide UAT support and document the Non-Life Internal Model valuation platform along with the statistical tools and peripheral tools/components embedded or linked to it
• Implement, maintain, pre-UAT, provide UAT support and document the Operational Risk Internal Model and its underlying platform
• Apply the Model Governance Policy and Data Management Policy
• Analyze the business requirements and identify the functional capabilities or features to be implemented within the Valuation Platform (tVP) and related tooling/components, in close collaboration with the Modelling and Reporting Team, MIT Transversal Role and Model Managers understanding and also challenging the business needs ensuring the quality of the solution and the compatibility of the solution with the overall stakeholders portfolio needs and roadmaps. This encompasses the following targets:

• Create, support, and maintain the central calculation engine platform (tVP) components
• Write the functional specifications for the central calculation engine platform (tVP)
• Contribute to the model implementation of non-methodological changes in the risk valuation software (R3S)
• Perform pre-UAT unit tests, non-regression tests and functional testing of new developments
• Write UAT instructions and follow-up the User Acceptance Testing. Act as all-round liaison between group risk managers, operating companies, intra MIT sections and IT
• Provide system support, encompassing the following targets:

• In case of system upgrades, analyze impacts on tooling & end-users, test the impacted tooling by using ad-hoc test-scenarios and consult/inform the end-users when needed
• Act as single point of contact for functional problems or questions from business users while they use the risk tooling supported by the Model Implementation Team
• Support the business when operational changes also require system changes
• Ensure that tooling performance is optimized compared to the available infrastructure and continuously challenge the status quo
• Monitor evolution in technology and trends potentially impacting the MIT overall tooling, and proactively advice on upgrades and/or migrations to more recent/stable/performant technologies
• Actively participate to technical discussions & meetings as well as to other relevant internal & external alignment meetings, either as an attendee or as moderator
• Report status update, at least on a weekly basis, to the head of the Risk Tooling & Performance team

Profile

• Full and independent proficiency in C# (.NET Core) programming.
• Good understanding of desktop development (WPF) or web development frameworks (ASP.Net, Angular, etc.).
• Familiarity with LINQ
• Good understanding of RDBMS (SQL Server).
• Familiarity with MS Power Platform
• Fluent in English
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proactive, flexible, and able to work on an independent basis.
• Can present complex materials in a structured and comprehensive way.
• The following skills are nice-to-have:

• Experience in risk domain and taxonomy
• Familiarity with main valuation frameworks (e.g., Solvency II/IFRS17/LAT …)
• Familiarity with the SCRUM agile framework
• Familiarity with MS Azure platform
• Familiarity with Docker
• Familiarity with MVVM/MVC coding pattern
• Familiarity with Unit Testing
• Familiarity with writing documentation
• Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript

Expected salary

Location

Bruxelles

Job date

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:13:58 GMT

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