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Are you a developer and technically minded? Are you looking for a company that guarantees you both personal and professional development? Would you like to work for an employer that gives you a great deal of scope and offers flexible working models? Then you've come to the right place: our IT department. 

Our IT department

As the top Swiss insurer, AXA has a very large IT department. Around 650 software and system developers and  data scientists work for AXA in Switzerland and are developing tomorrow’s technology inhouse.

Jobs in our IT department

We employ the following in our IT department:

  • Cloud engineers
  • Front-end developers 
  • Back-end developers
  • Full-stack developers
  • Robotics specialists
  • Business analysts
  • Agile masters
  • Product owners
  • and many more

We're always on the look-out for people with these job profiles. Did you qualify in computer science or business IT? Or are you technology minded and prepared to retrain? Then you’ve come to the right place. 

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Jobs in data science

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We currently have the following working for us:

  • Data scientists
  • Data architects
  • Data engineers
  • ML engineers
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How do we work?

  • We embrace agile working
    At the moment, our employees work across departmental boundaries in almost 100 agile product teams . We have developed our own framework , the  AXA Solution Delivery Framework, to facilitate our agile collaborations.
  • We work innovatively
    We work together with start-ups but also promote innovation within our product teams. Regular innovation sprints and innovation days offer the teams the opportunity to try something new during their regular working hours. 
  • We get involved
    As well as our main activities, some of our employees are also involved in AXA internal interest groups, known as guilds, that focus on various topics, such as Blockchain, digital sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence.
  • We promote know-how transfer
    We pass on our knowledge to our employees in the team and to interested parties within AXA.

Current projects

  • Migration of business-critical applications into the Managed Public Cloud (MS Azure)
  • Chatbots and voicebots for communicating with our customers
  • Opening our platform via Application Programming Interface (API) so that our partners can integrate this in their systems (Open API )
  • Collaboration with start-ups
  • Artificial Intelligence for better risk assessment 
  • Machine learning tools and AI procedures support our claims department in assessing claims as well as managing and reducing claim expenditures 

What are the advantages for you?

  • Innovation days
    You have the option of trying out something new, regular innovation sprints and innovation days during your regular working hours . 
  • AXA Hackathon
    The AXA Hackathon takes place once a year; this enables AXA employees from all areas to draft and tinker with exciting projects, learning something new in the process. 
  • Work-life balance
    Your work-life balance is important to us, so all our IT jobs are offered on a part-time or full-time basis (50 percent to 100 percent). We support you with work models that give you the flexibility to decide where and when you work as well as offering you family-friendly options. 
  • Smart Working
    Our work model is called Smart Working. This means: We combine working in the office with working hours for focused activities in the home office or in other suitable places. The key thing is that together we achieve our company goals – with a clear focus on teamwork and exchange.
  • Generous salary perks and many other advantages

Which technologies do we use?

We have invested comprehensively in a modern technology environment and many of our processes are carried out in the cloud.

Applications

  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • FastAPI
  • PyTorch
  • NumPy
  • SAP

Cloud

  • Azure
  • GCP

Containers

  • OpenShift
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Databases

  • MongoDB
  • MS SQL, Oracle
  • HANA

Front-end

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • AngularJS

Integration

  • Kafka

Monitoring

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

Pattern

  • Microservices
  • OpenAPI

Languages

  • C#
  • Java
  • Go
  • Helm
  • Python
  • Cobol
  • ABAP

Tooling

  • Jenkins
  • Tekton
  • GitHub Actions 
  • Artifactory