Go Security Architecture Expert

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

**Job position pitch**

The Security Technical Design Expert plays a critical role in bringing specialized expertise in Security architecture to GO Security teams (Product Security Office, Engineering Center). He or she, with the GO Security Technical Design Lead, will ensure complex projects from AXA GO meet security standards, participating to the definition of compliance and security technical controls for products.

**Where will you be in the organization?**

**The division**

You will join the Group Security division, defining the security standards to be applied by AXA entities, overseeing the overall security posture across the Group and providing centralized services to support entities (Crisis Management, Security Operations Centre, etc.).

Throughout AXA Group, the security community represents composed of 1000 security professionals, working daily to protect our customers, operations, brand and people. To achieve this, we have gathered our three security disciplines: Information Security, Physical Security and Operational Resilience.

Our main missions:

- Monitor the Security Threat Landscape
- Define and oversee Security Standards and Strategy implementation across the Group
- Drive local security objectives with C-Level executive (COO, CIO, CTO, CFO ) of AXA entities
- Ensure the security of Group Operations as an entity
- Provide centralized security services and products to AXA entities

AXA Group Security is divided in 4 main blocks:

- Corporate functions (Group Mandate) : Security Advisory and Standards, Security Governance, Security Risk & Assurance, Security Strategy and Awareness
- CyberDefense (Group security services and products provider)
- Group Operations Security (Security of the hosting entity)
- Corporate Chief Security Officers (Oversight of entities’ security) : Corporate Centre, European Markets, International Markets

**The department / team**

Group Operation Security (GO Security) mandate, as part of AXA Group Security division, is to Secure AXA GO as an entity and secure GO Products delivered by AXA GO as a Service Provider to other entities of AXA.

**About the job**

**Job purpose**

As the GO Security Technical Design Expert, your main objectives are to:

- Define and Maintain Technical security patterns, and knowledge base, aligned with Group Architecture, GO Security Policies, and Standard GO Cyber Defense Products
- Perform architecture security reviews for large and risky projects/products supporting GO Security teams, especially Product Security Office and GO Security Engineering Center team
- Lead the security technical guidelines definition activity, aligned with Group Architecture and Group Security, mainly for AWS & Azure services.

Some example of main topics / technologies: Zero trust, network segregation, Public cloud (AWS & Azure), Containerization (Openshift), Identity and Access management services, API security, security services (A/V, EDR, SIEM ), Artificial Inteligence (AI) integration, Shadow cloud, DevSecOps

**Main missions**

Your responsibilities include:

- Own the GO technical security guidelines definition process, and knowledge base;
- Provide recommendations for improving the security posture of the architecture, including potential remediation actions and risk mitigation strategies;
- Propose improvements lev