Enterprise Architect

About the role
It's an exciting time to join the team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&
I businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. We're looking for an Enterprise Architect to provide strategic and technical leadership for our digital transformation.
Reporting into the Head of Enterprise Architecture, you'll be responsible for defining the Architecture frameworks, standards, roadmap and ensuring that AXA develops reusable architecture assets and use of all new technologies and information systems. You'll support the Enterprise Architecture to advance digital transformation across the business, setting up business cases for digital design systems and be the champion for enterprise architecture depository.
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.
What you'll be doing:
Providing vision and direction for our roadmap
Ensuring alignment of technologies to the prescribed target architecture, architecture framework and standards
Monitoring the development of architecture across UK and Ireland to ensure our architecture practises remain up-to-date and effective
Assessing new and existing strategic AXA UK and Ireland products and systems to identify opportunities for development and creating improvement plans where required
Developing and embedding standards and patterns for common capability problems across AXA UK and Ireland
Identifying and evaluating tools, vendors and partners including early identification of emerging tools and vendors to meet our future needs
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.
About you
What we're looking for:
Previous architecture design experience, either purely as an Enterprise Architect or a Solution Architect
Experience in other IT disciplines such as Business Architecture/Analysis, Technical/Infrastructure Architecture within a multi-tier environment
Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks e.G.TOGAF/Zachman
Experience in React framework and mobile apps development
Knowledge and understanding of headless web content/systems is desirable
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
Ability to manage and prioritise a demanding workload
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
What we offer
At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
Annual company &
performance-based bonus
Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
AXA employee discounts
Gym benefits
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About AXA
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.
But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.
You'll work in an open and supportive environment where you'll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally. You'll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you'll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.
Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it's about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.
AXA UK Support Functions power AXA's three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you've got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you're just starting out, we'll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.