Digital Factory Delivery Lead

What will youressential responsibilities include

• Driving the delivery of AXA XL Digital Factory application with appropriate stakeholders.Working with the all stakeholders and strategic vendor to drive the optimal and scalable delivery digital factory model.
• Provide management oversight, strategy and direction to digital delivery squads within the customer journey.
• Provide high-level organization goals and objectives.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders on opportunity identification issue resolution and governance.
• Control and manage budget for the GT spend within your span of control.
• Ensure the scope of services, organization model, and key processes required to deliver services are properly executed in line with the overall Factory Model.
• Manage relationships from Procurement - Portfolio Managers to suppliers within the Factory model.
• Supports delivery through escalation of risks and issues that cannot be resolved by Digital Delivery squads.
• Own end to end product/application delivery, support and maintenance.
• Define and execute actions plan for concerns raised as a result of audits.
• Close working relationship with Chapters to ensure the performance of the resources.
• In collaboration with Procurement, manages RFI/RFPs, contract negotiations and delivery of contract terms. Also manages clean termSolution Delivery Center of contracts with vendors who consistently underperform.
• Ensure that business cases for application investments, such as technology upgrades, productivity tools, and continuous service improvement initiatives are developed.
• Review and approve contracts for a predetermined level of authority.
• Supports delivery through escalation of risks and issues.
• Provides audit support for both internal and external assessments.
• Articulates policies and standards as appropriate and provides all required evidence on a timely basis.Owns the completion of any action plans.
• Ensures the Solution Delivery Center adheres to Information Security policies and standards for secure coding and manages risk acceptances.You will report to the Head of Digital Factory.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Significant IT and business/industry work experience in a Digital Factory Model, including experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Experience in Claims & P&C would be preferred.
• Demonstrable ability to solve complex problems/issues.
• Excellent communications skills which are adapted to different audiences and can effectively drive consensus within the Digital Factory including the Journey Owners, Product Owners and delivery team(s).
• Adept at vendor management, both commercially and interpersonally, with a clear understanding of Digital Factory model.
• Ability to articulate problems, create solutions, and present analysis with proper detail and rigor for the target audience.
• Thought leader in implementing agile practices with experience leading teams through change.
• Expert knowledge of modern application development (specifically utilizing Cloud and microservices architecture) and using agile delivery methods with a significant background in application development.
• Ability to design product strategy and roadmap and work within a Digital Factory.
• Experience with User story development, personas definition, backlog prioritization.
• Ability to measure the success of the product KPIs identification and tracking.
• Advanced experience / capability in Financial forecasting and business case justification.
• Must have good understanding of Agile methodology and be familiar with multiple SDLC.
• Previous experience leading development and delivery teams in delivering high quality, low defect solutions.
• Track record for metrics-driven results is a plus.
• Experience in planning and executing multiple complex, large scale initiatives or operational areas.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Highly advanced analytical abilities with operational vision.
• Stakeholder management.
• Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.