Data Architect (Data Product Specialist )
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Job description
Passionate about shaping data-driven solutions? Join us to develop and deliver innovative Data Products, support stakeholders, and promote best practices across the organization. Be a key driver in transforming data into strategic value!, The purpose is to develop Data Products across Entities and to support operationally the design & delivery of Global Data Products (Data Products at a Group level). Main missions Your responsibilities include:
Design & Delivery
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Support operationally the design & delivery of Global Data Products, from a data architecture and data point of view, in collaboration with the data architects in the Team, and the Technology Office. A strong focus will be around Customer master data (Customer 360) in the first priorities. Other domains are (not exhaustive): Claims & Underwriting for P&C and Health, Finance.
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Educate and support various stakeholders from Group & Entities in the Data Product Lifecycle & Deployment;
Standards & frameworks
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Define, develop (in collaboration with data architects & information manager experts) and promote Data Product best practices in a Data Mesh approach, frameworks and standards, leveraging market and AXA standards in data architecture, information management, following AXA legal, information security and privacy policies. A first set of foundational deliverables have been delivered in 2024-2025: viewpoint, metadata model, governance, architecture, data platform blueprint, operating model, Data Product maturity score, data contracts, data catalog/marketplace design.
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Ensure global consistency of the frameworks & standards;
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Collaborate with the Data & AI Adoption team to provide stakeholders with the necessary skills and knowledge to work on Data Products, animate dedicated trainings;
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Animate events to promote Data Product initiatives across the Group.
Design Authority
- Act as a Data Product certification Design Authority with Data Architects & Information Managers experts, working closely with Technology Office, within the Global Data Usages Governance
Requirements
Do you have a Master's degree?, Must have
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At least 10 years of proven experience in data transformation in various large organizations as a senior data architect or information manager, developing industrialized Data Products;
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Concrete hands-on experience in the design & implementation of data & analytics use cases and related Data Products;
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Strong proven data architecture & modelling skills;
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Good knowledge of Data Product and Data Mesh concepts, including metadata management;
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Good knowledge of IT components enabling Data Products, including data platforms, data exchanges (incl. APIs), data catalog, data marketplace, AI lifecycle/engineering;
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Good knowledge of data regulations (privacy, security, etc.);
Nice to have
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Good knowledge of Databricks technologies;
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Experience or good knowledge of the insurance value chain;
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Experience in Customer Data Products, Customer 360 projects;
Experience & Expertise
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Good communicator, able to adapt the speech and embark various stakeholders from Business, Data and IT, at different levels (CDOs, CTOs, business leaders, project managers/product owners, architects, head of data management, data stewards, data scientists, etc.) and with different level of knowledge about Data Mesh / Data Product;
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Ability and eager to understand strategy and business usages;
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Organizational and structuration skills, and rigor in execution;
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Intellectual curiosity, proactive, autonomous and able to work in a complex organization, with a taste for innovation with an ability to step back and evaluate real opportunity for AXA;
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Team player in a multi-cultural work environment, able to see the big picture as well as deep dive into details when necessary;
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Sense of priorities;
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English - Fluent in speaking and writing on a day-to-day basis