Cloud Architect

We have a new opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join us. Reporting into the Head of Infrastructure Architecture Guild, you'll provide strategic technical leadership and architectural direction to the Cloud Platform Engineering teams and liaise with different stakeholders and communities to ensure alignment to strategic objectives. You'll lead and develop a high performing, technical platform capability and be responsible for enabling and developing platform services. You'll act as the highest technical design escalation point in the Azure Cloud Domain., * Responsibility for strategic direction and development of Cloud services in AXA UK

• Responsibility for UK Cloud Target, Current and Transition architectures and key contributor to development of multi-year roadmap in collaboration with the senior business and IT stakeholders
• Partnering with stakeholders in AXA Group to develop and maintain key metrics on Group Cloud products and services adoption
• Co-developing the product technical roadmaps; translating platform features into technology solutions using modern, industry best practices
• Working across multi-disciplinary teams of Azure Platform Engineers, Enterprise Architects and DevSecOps Engineers to collaborate on and produce high-quality, innovative, and robust cloud solutions for public release, overseeing complicated technical migrations and deployments (enable, service and operational transition)
• Acting as the highest technical escalation point in the domain and structure key design decisions to unblock issues
• Encouraging innovation and mitigation of risks at the earliest responsible moment, accepting and learning from low-cost failure
• Building and maintaining a culture of responsible, engaged, self-organised and self-managed teams
• Providing technical mentoring support to individuals, obtaining feedback on these individuals, helping to set priorities and career direction, and encouraging continuous improvement

Work arrangements:

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

• Substantial hands-on expertise working on large-scale (distributed systems) technical projects, including creating and deploying large-scale online and mobile applications in an agile platform engineering environment
• Experience working with, designing and implementing Cloud Platforms in enterprise environments
• Thorough understanding of Platform Engineering principles and how to apply them to provide quick, test-driven product engineering services to get products to customers faster
• Proven experience with Azure security models and enterprise integration patterns
• Awareness of market trends in Insurance and the IT industry, especially in Platform Engineering and Cloud
• Ability to manage third party relationships
• Experience in building investment cases and planning multi-year roadmap
• Knowledge of various Agile frameworks and secure software development approaches and techniques (e.g. CI/CD, DevSecOps, SRE and Automation first approaches)
• Understanding of Financial Services markets and products desirable

AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence. AXA UK Support Functions look after our three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure and expertise to make sure we can be there for our customers.