Chief Enterprise Architect

Chief Enterprise Architect

Location:

UK / US

AXA XL's Chief Enterprise Architect is a key senior executive, leadership team role in the Technology & AI function, accountable for defining and governing the enterprise-wide architecture vision, ensuring our business strategy is translated into an integrated technology, data, and capability roadmap. This role drives simplification, modernization, resilience, and value through architecture-led decision making, transforming to AI-based architecture.

The role reports to AXA XL's Chief Technology & AI Officer.

Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Vision

• Define and maintain the enterprise target architecture aligned to AXA XL's business strategy.
• Lead creation of multi-year architecture roadmaps across business, data, application, and infrastructure domains.
• Ensure architectural decisions support growth, customer experience, operational efficiency, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the enterprise AI architecture strategy, ensuring AI capabilities, platforms, data, governance and responsible controls are designed to scale securely while delivering measurable business value

Architecture Governance & Standards

• Establish and run enterprise architecture governance (design authorities, standards, patterns, guardrails).
• Approve or challenge major technology and platform decisions, ensuring architecture is consistent across portfolios, programs, and delivery teams.

Technology Simplification & Modernization

• Drive reduction of technical duplication, and complexity across the enterprise.
• Lead rationalization of application estates and platform portfolios, in addition to guiding cloud migration strategy and legacy modernization priorities.

Business & Capability Architecture

• Translate AXA XL's business strategy into capability maps and operating model requirements.
• Partner with senior business leaders to define capability gaps and investment priorities.
• Build e2e integrated AI-based architecture and ensure engineering executes using this agreed architecture.
• Ensure technology investment is anchored in business outcomes.

Data, Integration & Platform Architecture

• Define enterprise integration principles (API strategy, event-driven architecture, interoperability).
• Align data architecture with enterprise data strategy, governance, and analytics needs.
• Define and keep Enterprise Architecture principles current, ensuring principles are embedded in the governance (architecture review, sourcing and procurement, AI, engineering) while promoting reuse of platforms, components, and shared services.

Security, Risk & Resilience by Design

• Ensure security and operational resilience are embedded in architecture standards; resulting in security, AI and privacy by design.
• Work with CISO, risk and compliance teams to ensure architecture meets regulatory expectations.

Drive architecture decisions that reduce systemic technology risk.

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required

Skills and Abilities

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• Deep expertise and hands-on experience in e2e business and technology capability architecture with embedded security/privacy/AI. with a track record of success in the areas of delivery high impact learning and development solutions and operations
• Leadership experience in managing high performing teams who are autonomous, empowered and strive for excellence to serve a global scope
• Extensive critical thinking, systems thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to continually seek to improve, create efficiencies and optimize service delivery
• Data and insight driven, the ability to make robust decisions and drive measurable outcomes
• Effective oral/written communication skills to be able to engage multiple stakeholders in driving change and embedding new processes/practices.

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 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 UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at  . AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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