Data & AI Architect Expert

About AXA

As a world-leading insurance company, AXA acts for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, AXA has created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity are closely linked with AXA's values, and together they are nurturing a culture of respect for each other, for customers, and for the communities around them. Joining AXA means feeling a sense of belonging, being included, and having the opportunity to thrive. Employees can shape the way they work and grow their potential by seeking out new opportunities, pushing boundaries, and benefiting people in critical moments of their lives. This is a chance to build the tomorrow you want.

About The Entity

AXA is transforming into a sustainable tech-led company, and AXA Group Operations (GO) is a major catalyst for this transformation. GO sets the tone by empowering the evolution of AXA's insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally with speed, high-quality advisory, and execution. GO is present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. They leverage technology, data, sourcing, security, and investment allocation globally, achieving economies of scale and synergies. AXA Group Operations aims to be recognized in three fields of action: State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience, State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks, and a High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities.

Where will you be in the organization?

You will join the Strategy division within AXA Group Operations (GO). This division drives the definition and implementation of GO Strategy, steers GO investments, and ensures the successful execution of strategic and critical projects for GO. Their main missions include:

• Driving the GO Strategy Exercise Process: Coordinating and steering the AXA GO Strategic exercise transversally, ensuring consistency across GO stakeholders, and managing interdependencies between functions.
• Driving the Implementation of GO Strategy, Notably Efficiency Plans: Steering the GO Transformation Program and monitoring the GO efficiency plan through operational follow-up with GO Divisions.
• Ensuring Successful Execution of Strategic and Critical Projects for GO: Providing methodological support and challenge to GO Divisions in shaping projects, closely monitoring project delivery initiatives, and leading transversal strategic initiatives on an ad hoc basis.
• Steering GO Investments Transversally and Running Project Portfolio Management Process.

About The Job

Within GO Organization, Processes and Data, the Chief Data Officer for Group Operations is in charge of driving the internal AXA GO Data & AI transformation. This job position focuses on driving data architecture activities across AXA GO Business Data Domains and delivering data architecture contributions to transformation projects involving data and AI.

Main Missions

As a Data Architecture Lead Expert, under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer, your mission is to embody the data architecture capability, ensuring that the data solution supports business requirements. You will be responsible for ensuring the consistency and quality of enterprise data models to make informed decisions, supporting data solution design and delivery of GO Business Division transformation projects leveraging data and AI as business enablers with business architects and solutions architects, and driving the evolution of Data Platforms capabilities to support business roadmaps.

1 - To ensure consistency and quality of enterprise data models to make informed decisions

• Support the design of data models and Data Products on GO Business Data Domains.
• Manage processes and standards for the management of Enterprise Data Model evolutions with stakeholders (Business & Process Architecture, IT Solution Architecture).
• Support the operationalization of the Enterprise Data Model in project lifecycle management, in BI & Analytics and Data Products model design, as well as in delivering ready-to-use data for AI solutions.
• Design data models for Master Data Management and self-service BI industrialization.
• Promote adoption of data & AI and communicate on successful data stories.

2 - To support data solution design and delivery of GO Business Division transformation projects

• Ensure business proximity for a continuous understanding of required and future business needs.
• Ensure alignment between processes, data, and information systems impacting data lifecycle.
• Advise project delivery teams and contribute to delivering project outcomes to bring expected business impact through data and AI.
• Design data models from business glossary to physical data models.
• Ensure data solution design according to Group standards and GO Data frameworks binding principles with IT solution architects.
• Participate in projects governance.

3 - To drive evolution of Data Platforms

• Support the Chief Data Officer in establishing a documented roadmap of data platforms capabilities evolution with IT solution architects to support business strategy and objectives, including description of “As Is” / ”Target”, supporting budget and timeline.
• Design and enforce data principles on Data Platforms (storage, integration, protection, etc.).
• Support teams on Data Platforms’ usage according to Data Platforms architecture principles.
• Design data flows and data lake’s integration according to Data Platforms architecture principles.
• Participate in Data Platforms governance.

About You

Profile: Between 6-10 years of work experience required in Data & AI Architecture with a proven track record.

Technical & Business Skills

• Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Modelling, DataBase Design, DMBOK by DAMA, ArchiMate and TOGAF.
• Strong knowledge of IT Data & AI Architecture and IT Data & AI Capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of Master Data Management, Data Quality.
• Strong knowledge in Data governance, data stewardship, data privacy.
• Good knowledge of one of the business data domains (Information Technology, Legal/Compliance, Procurement, Finance, HR).

Soft Skills

• Ability to liaise with other Architecture Dimensions (IT, Business Architecture, Information Systems).
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Organizational skills and rigor in execution.
• Pragmatic, flexible, and adaptable, able to work in ambiguous situations with competing priorities and pressure.
• Ability to move from abstract concepts to concrete.
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences and to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Ability to operate with different cultures.
• English proficiency.
• Capacity to contribute to team spirit and foster collaboration among teams.
• Customer centricity.
• Results-oriented.

What We Offer

AXA brings together the expertise, cultural diversity, and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and is committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

Key skills/competency

• Data Architecture
• AI Architecture
• Data Modeling
• Master Data Management
• Data Governance
• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Data Platforms
• BI & Analytics
• Data Strategy