Data & AI Governance & Strategy Lead

AXA Group; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA Hong Kong and Macau seeks a Data & AI Governance lead to design and implement integrated governance frameworks across data products, analytics, ML, and AI-enabled solutions. The role spans governance by design, risk assessments, and cross-functional collaboration with IT, Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams.

Candidates typically bring extensive experience in data governance, AI governance, and regulatory awareness within financial services, with strong stakeholder management and leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security, Data Science, Engineering, Information Management, Risk Management, or related discipline; Master's advantageous.
• Typically 5-8+ years in Data or AI Governance, Data Management, Technology Risk, Information Security, Strategy, or transformation roles.
• Experience developing or implementing governance frameworks, policies, standards, controls, operating models, or assurance processes for Data and/or AI.
• Strong understanding of Data and AI lifecycles, risks, governance, accountability, controls, and monitoring.
• IT or Cyber Security knowledge preferred, including cloud, architecture, secure design, IAM, data protection, third-party risk, controls, or technology risk.
• Experience with metadata, lineage, data quality, MDM, data catalogues, or governance tooling is advantageous.
• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK, NIST, ISO, COBIT, or similar governance, security, and risk practices is advantageous.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Financial services or regulated industry experience is advantageous.
• Leadership capability with a proactive, pragmatic, collaborative mindset; people-management or mentoring preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and improvement of integrated Data and AI governance frameworks, policies, standards, guardrails, and controls.
• Embed governance-by-design across data products, analytics, ML, generative AI, AI agents, and other AI-enabled solutions.
• Coordinate governance and risk assessments covering accountability, data quality, privacy, cyber security, model risk, transparency, oversight, third-party risk, compliance, and resilience.
• Partner with Business, IT, Cyber Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Architecture teams to set requirements and resolve governance issues.
• Maintain governance artefacts, registers, decisions, exceptions, risk and issue logs, and evidence for forums, assurance, audit, and regulators.
• Define and track governance metrics, maturity, control effectiveness, remediation, and adoption outcomes.
• Provide practical guardrails that enable responsible innovation and meet control requirements.

Skills

Governance

Data governance

AI governance

Stakeholder management

Data management

Metadata & MDM

Analytics & risk

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science/IT/Data Science

Master's advantageous

Tools

Governance tooling

Data catalogues

Job description

AXA Hong Kong and Macau seeks a Data & AI Governance lead to design and implement integrated governance frameworks across data products, analytics, ML, and AI-enabled solutions. The role spans governance by design, risk assessments, and cross-functional collaboration with IT, Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams.

Candidates typically bring extensive experience in data governance, AI governance, and regulatory awareness within financial services, with strong stakeholder management and leadership