Chief Enterprise Architect

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 end-to-end 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.

Requirements

• Deep expertise and hands-on experience in end-to-end business and technology capability architecture with embedded security/privacy/AI.
• Track record of success in delivering high-impact 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, with the ability to make robust decisions and drive measurable outcomes.
• Effective oral/written communication skills to engage multiple stakeholders in driving change and embedding new processes/practices.

Benefits

• Inclusion
  • 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.
• Total Rewards
  • Competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.
  • Comprehensive health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and financial security programs.
  • Competitive retirement savings plan.
  • Wide range of learning opportunities to hone professional skills and position for career advancement.
• Sustainability
  • Sustainability strategy focused on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across operations.
  • Volunteering and charitable giving programs, including Matching Gifts, Volunteering Leave, and Global Day of Giving.

Pay

The U.S. base salary range for this position is $275,000 to $300,000 USD. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience, and location.

About Us

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. We provide re/insurance solutions by combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines, and specialty.