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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 and written communication skills to engage multiple stakeholders in driving change and embedding new processes/practices.

Benefits

• Inclusion and diversity initiatives, including 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.
• Competitive retirement savings plan.
• Health and wellness programs.
• Wide range of learning opportunities to hone professional skills and support career development.
• Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and annual 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.