Axa is a place where employees have the opportunity to grow and develop themselves. Development opportunities are possible on a horizontal- and on vertical level.

Axa has several values which are very important for them:

Professionalism: be the right person on the right place.
Reality: always give the best of yourself, but keep your objectives realistic.
Innovation: dear to question yourself.
Teamspirit: be open and clear.
Respect the given word: keep your promises and trust others to do the same.

Axa is a large banking and insurance company. This year they"ve made 14th place in Best Working Environment Award from Randstad.

Axa is represented in more than 40 countries. The IT-departement in Belgium counts 550 internal employees, who are based in Brussels and Antwerp. This position is based in Antwerp.

Key objectives of this role:

- Managing change requests, corrections and enhancements
- Gather user requirements,
- Take care of the analysis (functional and technical)
- Occasionally do software development
- Organise the User Acceptance testing
- Follow up on offshore activities

As an Analyst, your main responsibilities will be to:

Engage stakeholders using methods for eliciting needs, expectations, constraints, and external interfaces
Translate the customer needs to documented requirements
Define the requirements strategy and organisation
Design and configures the Requirements Repository and the Traceability matrix according to the strategy
Identify and analyse change request, corrections, enhancements
Guarantee consistency of documented requirements with project plans and technical work products in terms of identification, qualification, acceptance, commitment and traceability
Develop acceptance plan and acceptance criteria with the stakeholders
Ensure proper reporting on requirements activities to the application manager
Plan, coordinate, lead, review and validate the activities in the domain of requirements development:
the development of requirements in terms necessary for product component design the development of use cases


As a Designer, your main responsibilities will be to:

Assist the application specialists in the solution
Validate the feasibility of the solution
Design system components (e.g. databases, user interfaces) and interfaces between the components: defines responsibilities, operations, attributes and relationships of system components and the interfaces between them
Guarantee the implementation of the system components: reviews the software code and unit-test elements of the system components and interfaces: (proactive)
Document the design (system components and interfaces)
Maintain the documentation throughout the lifecycle
Participate together with the project architect to the design of the system
Provide input to feasibility studies
Support the test teams in analyzing potential bugs

Technical skills:

-Experience in the mainframe environment (back-end): Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS

-Knowledge of MQ-series and Java are strong assets

-Good business understanding of the Banking applications ie Investments, Payments and Credits

-Knowledge of Oracle and how it interfaces with the mainframe system is a plus

-Fluency in Dutch and English

Personal skills:

-Independent and proactive

-generalist approach

-excellent listening and communication skills

-processes oriented

-creative

-capable of thinking in a transversal manner

Axa offers a wide range of secondary benefits such as insurances, mealvouchers,...

Depending on experience and age the salary varies between 3500 and 4500 euros / month .