IT Transformation Lead

  • Barcelona
  • Axa Partners

AXA Group is the world leader in insurance and asset management. We protect and advise our clients at every step in their lives, by offering products and services which satisfy their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, saving and asset management. AXA is the leading insurance brand worldwide, with over 100 million clients. We are transforming from payer to partner for our client, with a strong focus on risk prevention.

Our mission : Empower people to live a better life.

Our values :Customer First, Courage, Integrity and One AXA.

We are looking to meet our new IT Transformation Lead to coordinate and manage various projects in 2023 across all business areas and countries in line with their strategic plan working closely with IT Senior Leadership Team (AXA Partners CIOs) and the Agile Lab.

AXA Partners Group is undergoing a major transformation to improve efficiency, increase profitability and enhance customer experience through digitalisation.

Who are you?

You know what teamwork is and like autonomy. You are also a self-motivated and energetic IT Transformation Lead who works without any supervision or mentorship.

You are a natural leader who loves to empower team members, promote innovation and can work collaboratively with others and leverage their skills to the maximum.

You are highly analytical and strategic with the ability to think outside the box and deliver and interpret complex management information and statistics. You will be able to create strong interactions with Single Point of Contacts in all IT departments in charge of the DevOps, Agile and Quality insurance maturity.

What does your day-to-day look like?

The IT Transformation Lead will:

  • Lead the Agile transformation of the AXA Partners IT family from start to end. Spreading agile culture and be responsible for transfer that knowledge.
  • Experiments (according to the context) new ways of working (tools, approaches). You will define and deploy an Agile Orchestration framework, in coordination with the Agile Lab.
  • Speed the DevOps practices adoption. You will work with each squad/project on an improvement plan to increase the maturity level and watch new DevOps market practices and upgrade AXA Partners DevOps standards with those new practices.
  • Lead and deploy the Quality assurance practices across AXA Partners. Define testing and QA standards for all phases of the SDLC, influencing all parties to conform to those standards.
  • Lead and deploy other transformation practices in the AXA Partners IT family.
  • Coordination, steering and communication. Ensure a proper definition of SLAs/KPIs for Agile, DevOps & QAs matters and manage the implementation and the follow-up.
  • Team management. Assure capacity planning to secure delivery maintaining balanced workload (positive eNPS). Focus on team performance, attracting and developing employees as well as fostering a new culture of collaboration across the department.

Your Profile Your skills and experience**

  • Computer Science engineering degree or equivalent.
  • Fluent in Spanish, French and English.
  • Strong experience in managing large, diverse teams of IT professionals (operating in matrix organisations).
  • Expertise regarding Agile principles, DevOps and Quality assurance practices.
  • Extensive experience working in technology within a company with a solid understanding of technology.
  • Strong experience leading change and championing transformative IT which are sources of competitive advantage and differentiation.
  • Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.
  • High level of maturity in people interface skills, working both across cultures and at various levels of the organization.
  • Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal, strong influencer at all levels.
  • A high degree of work ethics and leads by example.

About AXA

AXA Group is the world leader in insurance and asset management. We protect and advise our clients at every step in their lives, by offering products and services which satisfy their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, saving and asset management. AXA is the leading insurance brand worldwide, with over 100 million clients. We are transforming from payer to partner for our client, with a strong focus on risk prevention.

Our mission: Empower people to live a better life.

Our values: Customer First, Courage, Integrity and One AXA.

About the Entity

AXA Partners is an AXA transversal business unit offering a wide range of solutions in assistance services, travel insurance and credit protection.

AXA Partners’ role is also to implement innovative solutions emerging from the AXA Innovation unit.

Combining passion with advanced expertise, we design and deliver worldwide solutions for partners and communities. We protect what matters, when it matters.

What We Offer

By joining AXA Partners, you will work in a responsible company, which offers a real