Lead Product Owner, Data & AI Platforms
London, UK
AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
AXA XL values data and AI assets as vital for risk management and seizing new business opportunities. They need to be high quality and delivered in a value-first rapid fashion, providing competitive edge while boosting company operational efficiency.
The Innovation, Data, and Analytics (IDA) team delivers on this vision through strategic use of digital, data, and AI technologies to stand out from competitors. To advance our data and AI capabilities, we're recruiting a Lead Product Owner - Data and AI Platform to oversee the platform's ongoing operation and development and grow its adoption throughout AXA XL.
The platform facilitates the entire lifecycle of data, machine learning, and AI, including scalable data transformation, engineering, deployment, and operations. It now integrates Azure AI for advanced document handling and provides shared AI functionalities for end user applications. Our technology primarily utilises the MS Azure ecosystem, especially Azure Databricks and Azure AI services.
What you’ll be doing
Leadership & Team Management Skills
- Demonstrate expertise in managing and coaching cross-functional teams, including full-time employees and contractors, across multiple geographic locations (e.g., USA East Coast and India).
- Foster a collaborative environment that promotes team productivity, professional development, and effective communication.
Product Ownership & User Experience Optimisation
- Take ownership of platform product development, ensuring the delivery of seamless, compliant, and cost-effective user journeys for diverse user segments, including interactive users, application developers, and IT operations.
- Design and maintain clear, user-centric workflows that enhance user satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Compliance & Governance Expertise
- Ensure platforms adhere to enterprise standards for data governance, security, privacy, and AI governance.
- Implement role-based access controls and other security measures that simplify compliance while supporting user productivity.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Strategic Alignment
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders, including the Global Technology CTO, to expand platform capabilities—focusing on enabling rapid, economical delivery of end-user applications.
- Contribute to the development of managed AI features, standardised deployment processes, architectural patterns, and operational playbooks.
Communication & Advocacy
- Serve as the primary voice of users in discussions with technical, security, and governance teams.
- Effectively communicate user needs and platform capabilities to ensure alignment and drive strategic initiatives.
This role, will report to the Division Lead, Data and AI Platforms
What you’ll bring
At AXA XL, we view individuals holistically through their People, Business, and Technical Skills. We’re interested in what you bring, how you think, and your potential for growth. We value diverse perspectives, recognising that each person contributes uniquely to our team's success.
We welcome candidates with relevant education and experience in a related field, as well as those with diverse educational backgrounds or equivalent experience.
Here are some of the key skills important for the role:
PEOPLE Skills
- Willingness to understand in-depth user problems and peculiarities of workflow in diverse user segments.
- Ability to communicate effectively across the wider stakeholder landscape.
- Evidenced management experience leading colleagues and execution partners.
- Emotional Intelligence (implied through effective communication and understanding diverse user needs).
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (working with architects, cloud engineers, stakeholders).
BUSINESS Skills
- Prior experience of engaging architects and cloud engineers to deliver user-facing solutions, particularly data-intensive applications.
- Prior experience of system administration, cloud engineering, solution engineering, and architecture (business impact of technical solutions).
- Stakeholder Management (collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders).
- Business & Process Improvement (improving workflows and ensuring platform efficiency).
TECHNICAL Skills
- Proven experience as a Platform Owner / Technical Product Owner / Senior Platform / Senior Infrastructure Engineer of a Cloud-based platform offering.
- Understanding of data science and developer workflows and best practices, such as CI/CD, model management lifecycle.
- Familiarity with data warehousing, cloud-based services, data governance & controls, AI & automation.
- Willingness to grow technical and management expertise; staying updated with evolving technology.
- Prior experience of machine learning and data application development and operation (useful to have).
- Experience in system administration, cloud engineering, solution architecture, and cloud automation technologies such as Terraform (useful to have).
- Azure Cloud certifications (a plus).
What we offer
Inclusion
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Total Rewards
AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalised, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.
We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.
Sustainability
At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.
Our Pillars
- Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society - are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature - from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard - by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
- Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
- Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
- AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day - the Global Day of Giving.
For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.
Who we are
AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
Learn more at axaxl.com
