Enterprise Architect

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

8/7/2025

We have an exciting new opportunity to join us as an Enterprise Architect, providing technical leadership in our nextGen COO strategy across AXA UK and Ireland.

Reporting into the Head of Enterprise Architecture, you’ll be responsible for aligning key stakeholders across a number of disciplines to the strategic direction as well helping define the architecture framework, target architecture, roadmap and ensuring that AXA develops reusable technology assets and products.

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%) towards the end of 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing vision and direction for our roadmap for architecture
• Driving innovation and simplification of the technology estate through the use of common standards
• Ensuring alignment of technologies to the prescribed target architecture, architecture framework and customer data management practices
• Monitoring the development of building blocks across UK and Ireland to ensure our technology and operation management practices remain up to date, effective and continually improving
• Assessing new and existing strategic AXA UK and Ireland products and systems to identify opportunities for platform development and creating improvement plans where required
• Identifying and evaluating tools, vendors and partners including the 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.

What you’ll bring:

• Previous architecture design experience as an Enterprise Architect
• Lead architect experience on a large-scale data or cloud project
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks e.g. TOGAF/Zachman
• Proven experience interacting with all functions both business and technical to align the requirements of a project to system and technical requirements
• DevOps best practice, e.g. Application Development lifecycle, security functional requirements
• Working knowledge of Data modelling standards such as Accord
• Exposure to artificial intelligence is beneficial
• 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 of up to £100,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts
  
  
  

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Who we are:

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.