Head of Enterprise Architecture

AXA UK; Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare company is seeking a Head of Enterprise Architecture on a 6-month Fixed Term Contract in Tunbridge Wells. The role involves developing and owning the architecture strategy, managing a team of architects, and ensuring architectural governance and risk controls throughout the IT landscape. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong governance expertise, domain knowledge in regulated services, and experience in cloud architectures. Competitive salary and flexible working arrangements available.

Benefits

Competitive salary of up to £103,000

Discretionary bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Options to buy/sell extra leave

Wellbeing services

AXA employee discounts

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an enterprise or solution architect.
• Domain knowledge in health insurance or regulated financial services.
• Deep understanding of risk management and GDPR/data protection.
• Extensive experience with cloud and hybrid architecture.
• Experience leading Architecture Review Boards and engaging with executives.
• Ability to mentor architectural teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Govern architectural standards and chair the Architecture Review Board.
• Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory and security requirements.
• Translate business strategies into architecture roadmaps.
• Manage and develop the architecture team.
• Implement governance and risk controls across the IT landscape.

Skills

Governance expertise

Information security knowledge

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Communication of technical concepts

Tools

Cloud architecture

APIs

Event-driven integration

Data governance

Job description

Description

Join AXA - Global Healthcare as our Head of Enterprise Architecture on a 6-month Fixed Term Contract and lead the strategic evolution of our enterprise architecture landscape. In this pivotal role, you’ll develop and own the architecture strategy and target state for AXA Global Healthcare and the Health Division’s transversal functions, including finance, risk, and HR. You’ll govern architectural standards, reference architectures, and solution designs, ensuring alignment with regulatory, security, privacy, and governance requirements.

Collaborating closely with the CIO and key business leaders, you’ll translate business strategies into actionable architecture roadmaps, prioritising initiatives and managing the architecture backlog across programmes. Leading and developing a dedicated team of enterprise and solution architects, you’ll ensure architecture governance and risk controls are embedded across our IT landscape, supporting our regulated activities through security-by-design, privacy-by-design, data governance, and audit readiness.

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\u2019ll 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:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy and target state for AXA Global Healthcare and Health Division transversal functions.
• Govern architectural standards, reference architectures, and solution designs; chair the Architecture Review Board.
• Ensure architecture aligns with regulatory, security, privacy, and governance requirements.
• Translate business strategies into architecture roadmaps and deliverables; partner with CIO and business leads to prioritise initiatives.
• Manage and develop a team of enterprise and solution architects.
• Implement architecture governance and risk controls across the IT landscape, including security, privacy, data governance, and audit compliance.

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:

• Proven track record as an enterprise or solution architect with strong governance expertise.
• Domain knowledge in health insurance or regulated financial services, including claims, policy administration, and member data.
• Deep understanding of information security, GDPR/data protection, and risk management, with experience in security-by-design and privacy-by-design controls.
• Extensive experience with cloud and hybrid architecture, including APIs, event-driven integration, data sharing, and data architecture.
• Demonstrated leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience leading Architecture Review Boards and engaging with senior executives.
• Ability to mentor small architectural teams and communicate complex technical concepts effectively at all levels.

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply for this role as a secondment opportunity through the internal careers site.

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 £103,000
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical 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:

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, AXA – Global Healthcare specialise in supporting the healthcare needs of globally mobile citizens, around the world. From a routine medical check up to a lengthy hospital stay, individuals and businesses have relied on the global support and protection we offer, for more than 55 years. Today, we support members living in more than 200 countries from our global hubs in the UK, Europe, Asia, India, USA and Middle East.