GEN AI Architects

AXA UK plc; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Bolton is looking for GenAI Architects to define and develop AI architecture that integrates advanced solutions into workflows. The ideal candidates will have a strong background in enterprise platforms and collaboration skills. The role supports flexible working arrangements with a focus on enhancing customer-facing products and internal operations. This opportunity offers competitive benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonuses

Private health cover

Generous leave

Wellbeing resources

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Strong experience in architecture/design for platform solutions.
• Expertise in integrating LLMs and GenAI into workflows.
• Ability to lead delivery teams and technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop GenAI architecture roadmap.
• Lead design of AI integration into enterprise solutions.
• Connect data sources into AI pipelines.

Skills

Experience with enterprise platforms

Strong foundations in data

Leadership in technical solutions

Collaboration with engineering and product teams

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft 365

SharePoint

Salesforce

ServiceNow

Workday

Job description

It's an exciting time to join AXA, with significant investment across our UK & Ireland businesses to deliver smarter digital services and AI-powered operational excellence. We are seeking two GenAI Architects—experienced platform or solution architects with strong foundations in enterprise platforms and data, focusing on designing and enabling AI-powered, GenAI-enhanced, and agentic systems.

Reporting to the Head of Data Architecture, you will shape how AXA adopts and scales intelligent automation, language models, and agentic AI capabilities across customer-facing products and internal operations. Your responsibilities include defining architecture patterns, guiding delivery teams, and collaborating with engineering, product, and data colleagues to develop intelligent assistants, copilots, and workflow-optimizing AI systems.

We support flexible working arrangements, requiring at least two days per week (40%) away from home, increasing to three days (60%) by the end of 2025. This includes visiting offices, clients, or industry events, with options for flexible schedules discussed with Talent Acquisition.

Responsibilities include:

1. Defining and evolving the enterprise GenAI and broader AI architecture roadmap aligned with AXA's digital strategy.
2. Leading the design of enterprise solutions integrating LLMs, GenAI, and agentic automation into workflows.
3. Connecting structured and unstructured data sources and platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Salesforce, Guidewire, ServiceNow, Workday into AI pipelines.
4. Providing technical leadership for pilot and solution delivery teams, building reference implementations, and scaling successful patterns.
5. Partnering with platform and engineering teams to enable LLMOps and AgenticOps capabilities, including prompt lifecycle management, model observability, caching, evaluation, and governance.
6. Contributing to the development of an AI-ready architecture practice within AXA through knowledge sharing and reference implementations.
7. Collaborating with business teams to identify and shape AI automation use cases such as summarization, triage, classification, and advisory systems.
8. Supporting integration with messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and APIs as part of AI solutions.

We value and appreciate our employees' efforts in protecting what matters most to our customers. In return, we offer comprehensive benefits aimed at supporting professional and personal growth, including competitive salaries, bonuses, pension schemes, life assurance, private health cover, generous leave, wellbeing resources, and employee discounts.

AXA UK is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity employment. We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and support those facing workplace barriers due to disabilities or health conditions through our Disability Confident initiatives.

As a regulated financial services provider, all successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks in accordance with FCA and PRA standards. We also provide interview preparation support and feedback throughout the process.

For more details on benefits, the recruitment process, or to discuss offers, please contact our Talent Acquisition team. We look forward to your application and potentially welcoming you to AXA.