Artificial Intelligence Engineering Executive Manager

Our ambition is to be a major catalyst for AXA’s transformation into a tech-led company.
Officially launched in January 2019, AXA Group Operations’ goal is to support AXA entities around the world in empowering people to live better lives.

As AXA’s ‘engine’, Group Operations is responsible for making the business run on a day-to-day basis, as well as delivering solutions vital to its future. Bringing together seven teams with a wide range of expertise (IT, Data and Emerging Technologies, Security, Finance, Strategic Programs, Procurement and Sourcing, as well as AXA Business Services), we are the ones providing advice, steering technological choices and giving AXA access to innovations that will support its transformation into a customer-centric tech-led company. For this, we work in close partnership with AXA entities.

GROUP EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES & DATA

Group Emerging Technologies & Data drives AXA towards a tech - led company by leveraging data, digital and emerging technologies at scale which have the potential to disrupt the current insurance business model and provide opportunities to shape future businesses.

PRIMARY MISSIONS

He / she will be responsible for the strategic and operational management of the Artificial Intelligence Engineering expertise across the AXA Group, overseeing the engineering maturity increase and development of innovative solutions, and contributing to the AI strategy.

He / she steers and coordinates his/her business area: activities, resources, QoS, costs, delay to achieve the assigned goals.
He / she develops objectives and strategies for the delivery of AI solutions within the company.
He / she ensures the development of his/her team from both operational and career standpoints.

DETAILED ACTIVITIES

· Contribute to the development and implementation of the AXA Technology/Data & Operations (TDO) strategy and the AI & Innovation strategy.

· Lead and supervise a team of 10 expert engineers in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data, ensuring that performance objectives are met.

· Define and maintain standards and best practices in artificial intelligence engineering to ensure operational excellence.

· Lead the entities increasing maturity levels by industrializing practices and tools in artificial intelligence engineering, including MLOps and LLMOps

· Promote and communicate on any new initiatives through internal activities (Global community of Data Scientist (1400 participants), summit, townhall, …) and external events.

· Collaborate with other AXA GO divisions (chief architects / CTOs, legal, security, ...) and AXA entities to ensure seamless integration of AI solutions across the organization.

· Maintain continuous technological awareness to stay at the forefront of AI advancements.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

1.Impacts on teams, businesses or AXA GO
Group Emerging Technologies and Data focus on three distinctive capabilities which have the potential to shape and disrupt the future of the insurance business: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DATA and PLATFORMS.
Collaborate with entities to leverage related Technologies and data partnership and deliver a substantial business impact in the short term and medium term
Develop best practices, frameworks, toolboxes, standards and blueprints in collaboration and alignment with Group CIO/CTO

2.Stakeholder management
- We accelerate AXA’s transformation in data & technology innovation through a strong collaboration with and in OpCos and Group functions..
- Ability to drive product vision and progress reviews with senior executive stakeholders.
- Ability to establish relationships with stakeholders quickly in order to co-develop use cases with entities and/or external companies
- Organize a committee of insurance experts and C-Level advisors challenging the work in progress.
- Ability to communicate and explain emerging technologies and business value to the management comities and board of directors

Your Profile

3.Management or leadership activities
- Keep teams focused on the right priorities to meet aggressive deadlines; clearly communicate project progress to leads and executive team. Direct supervision of staff: Performance management, career development, education, and training.
- Supervise the Internal and External * efforts to drive awareness and adoption of our solutions.
- Drive the incorporation our solution within the other AXA IT solutions by identifying and conducting partnership with their product teams.
- Work in an international context, teams from labs around the world (Paris, San Francisco, Lausanne, and Barcelona)

1.Functional knowledges
- 15+ years’ experience in Artificial Intellifgence (Data Science, Machine Learning, GenAI, ...) leading design and implementation, and bringing a product from concept to completion.
- People person with proved experiences in recruiting, building and managing successful teams.
- Ability to attract, select, motivate and inspire data talents
- Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
- Self-sufficient in analyzing and drawing conclusions about quality and product opportunity from raw and refined product data.
- Great communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization.
- Strong leadership with a proven ability to communicate to senior executives while leading projects
- Strong results-orientation, customer centricity
- True team player who can break the silos with tact and diplomacy
- Autonomy, curiosity and innovation capability, appetite for continuous learning and improvement
- Not afraid of unclear, ambiguous situations with a need to invent success path
- Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team, strongly business oriented

2.Technical proficiency
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong understanding of data & emerging technologies challenges and IT/technological principles
- Good understanding of state-of-the-art machine learning, data, big data technologies, Iot, Geospatial, natural language processing science, GenAI concepts
- Good insurance business and customer knowledge to identify use cases and in order to explain technical data-related issued to insurance managers across all hierarchies with business mindset
- Professional experience in project management and in change management in a deep business transformation context
- Set up and manage our AI development and production infrastructure.
- Help AI product managers and business stakeholders understand the potential and limitations of AI when planning new products.
- Build data ingest and data transformation infrastructure.
- Identify transfer learning opportunities and new training datasets.
- Build AI models from scratch and help product managers and stakeholders understand results.
- Deploy AI models into production.
- Create APIs and help business customers put results of your AI models into operations.
- Background in programing language, cloud, Scrum, testing methodology
- Keep current of latest AI research relevant to our business domain.
- Fluency in English is mandatory

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 with 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

What We Offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

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