Description:
We have a new opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join us.
Reporting into the Head of Infrastructructure 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.
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 either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.
What you’ll be doing:
- 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
- Responsibility for the architecture, enablement standards and technical direction of the Azure Platform Engineering function
- 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)
- Partnering with stakeholders and customers to develop and inform the underlying platform capabilities that will speed up product engineering, such as automation, reuse, and consistency across software product lines
- 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