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We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.\nAt AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.\nJob Description: Delivery Lead - Infrastructure & IRM\nHow does this role contribute to our collective success?\nThe Delivery Lead - Infrastructure & IRM is accountable for the outcomes of AXIS's portfolio of strategic Infrastructure and Information Risk Management (IRM) investments, spanning infrastructure and cloud modernization, network and end-user technology, technology resilience, and cybersecurity capabilities that protect AXIS's businesses and regions globally. This is a delivery leadership role: it owns the integrated portfolio, ensures investment is focused on the highest-value priorities, and is measured on the resilience, risk reduction, and business value the portfolio delivers.\nReporting to the Strategic Delivery Lead - COO, this role drives disciplined portfolio execution across regions and time zones, actively managing dependencies, delivery risk, and investment performance, and gives sponsors and senior leadership transparent, decision-ready insight into what is being delivered, at what cost, and with what result.\nWorking closely with Infrastructure and IRM leadership, the role influences senior stakeholders to make timely decisions and trade-offs, leads the portfolio's shift to product-aligned, Agile ways of working, and translates strategic priorities into delivered capabilities, sustained adoption, and realized benefits.\nWhat will you do in this role?\nShape and Prioritize the Portfolio\nTranslate Infrastructure and IRM strategy into a sequenced, outcome-based portfolio with clear objectives, success measures, and accountable owners for each initiative.\nLead annual and multi-year Infrastructure and IRM portfolio planning, working with technology leaders to identify demand, shape scope and estimates, determine resource requirements, and sequence initiatives for budget and investment planning.\nChallenge and shape business cases to ensure investment is directed to the initiatives that deliver the greatest resilience, risk reduction, and business value.\nMobilize initiatives with the right team structures, capabilities, and partners, and secure the resources required to deliver.\nEnsure Infrastructure and Security dependencies, including environments, connectivity, security, capacity, testing, and implementation, are built into broader business and application programs from the outset.\nDrive Disciplined Portfolio Execution\nLead delivery across strategic initiatives covering infrastructure and cloud modernization, network, end-user technology, identity and access management, security operations, and technology resilience across AXIS's regions and business units, ensuring commitments translate into delivered outcomes.\nMaintain a forward-looking view of portfolio performance, identify slippage early, and take decisive corrective action to protect outcomes, cost, and quality.\nOwn cross-project, cross-regional, and enterprise dependencies, including sequencing and critical path, and resolve conflicts with other COO, Technology, application, and regional programs before they affect delivery.\nOversee design, build, testing, deployment, cutover, and stabilization with infrastructure, security, and business partners, minimizing disruption to production services and the business.\nApply commercial judgment in managing third-party and staff-augmentation partners, including SOW development and renewal, commercial and rate-card analysis, contract consumption, partner performance, and opportunities to optimize delivery cost and capacity.\nDeliver Infrastructure, Security, and AI Outcomes\nAlign Infrastructure, IRM, Architecture, and application delivery teams on backlogs, release plans, and capacity so that effort remains focused on portfolio priorities.\nDrive delivery of prioritized automation and AI use cases, such as infrastructure automation, AIOps and observability, threat detection and response, and vulnerability management, from discovery through pilot and scaled rollout, with clear value expectations and go/no-go decisions.\nEnsure business and security requirements, acceptance criteria, and value expectations are clearly defined and that solutions include security by design, appropriate human oversight, risk management, and controls.\nHold delivery accountable beyond implementation for effective operational handover, sustained adoption, and measurable value.\nLead the Shift to Product-Aligned Delivery\nLead the transition of Infrastructure and IRM from project-based delivery to persistent, product-aligned Agile teams, in partnership with Infrastructure and IRM leadership and the COO delivery organization, to deliver outcomes faster and more predictably.\nDefine team structures, roles, and decision rights, and establish planning and prioritization cadences that are proportionate to the portfolio.\nImplement portfolio intake, prioritization, and capacity allocation across strategic initiatives, run and maintain activities, technical debt, security remediation, and audit findings.\nUse delivery and flow measures, such as predictability, cycle time, and throughput, supported by consistent tooling, to provide portfolio visibility and drive continuous improvement.#\nManage Investment, Transparency, and Value Realization\nOwn the portfolio investment, including forecasts, actuals, accruals, and variance, in partnership with Finance, and recommend reallocation of funding and capacity as priorities, risks, or performance change.\nProvide the Strategic Delivery Lead - COO, Infrastructure and IRM leadership, sponsors, and senior leadership with transparent, decision-ready reporting on progress, spend, risk, and value, including a candid view of portfolio health and the decisions required.\nDefine and track outcome measures and baselines for service availability, resilience, security risk posture, cost, and quality alongside delivery KPIs.\nMaintain a benefits register and work with Infrastructure and IRM owners to evidence value realization and risk reduction, recommending changes to initiatives that are no longer delivering expected value.\nGovern Delivery Risk and Control\nRun proportionate, decision-focused portfolio governance, including steering committees, decision logs, and stage gates, ensuring decisions are made at the right level and acted on.\nProactively identify, assess, and manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, escalate with clear options and recommendations, and drive timely resolution.\nManage scope and change control, assessing the impact of changes on outcomes, investment, schedule, and benefits.\nPartner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit to ensure changes maintain effective IT general and security controls and meet regulatory and cybersecurity requirements across jurisdictions.\nEnsure delivery controls and audit evidence meet COO delivery and enterprise standards.\nInfluence Senior Stakeholders and Drive Adoption\nAct as a trusted advisor to senior business, technology, and risk stakeholders, framing trade-offs in terms of business impact, risk, and cost, and securing timely decisions.\nBuild alignment on priorities, sequencing, and investment across regions and functions, and constructively challenge when scope, spend, or priorities are not aligned to value.\nDevelop and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans across regions and locations globally.\nPartner with change management and training teams on change impact, readiness, training, and adoption activities.\nSuccess Measures\nCommitted portfolio outcomes, including milestones, capabilities, and benefits, delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.\nInvestment directed to the highest-value priorities, with accurate forecasting, minimal unplanned variance, and timely reallocation where needed.\nDependencies and delivery risks identified early and resolved before they affect outcomes.\nA transparent, trusted, and consistent view of portfolio progress, spend, risk, and value for senior leadership.\nMeasurable value realization against the benefits case, including improvements in resilience, service availability, security risk posture, cost, and quality.\nSuccessful deployment and sustained adoption of infrastructure, security, automation, and AI capabilities consistently across regions, with minimal disruption to production services and supported by effective controls.\nProduct-aligned ways of working adopted across Infrastructure and IRM, evidenced by stable teams, a prioritized portfolio backlog, and more predictable delivery.\nStrong sponsor and senior stakeholder confidence, with timely decisions on priorities and trade-offs.\nNo material control issues or audit findings arising from portfolio changes.\nAbout you:\nWhat you need to have:\nExperience and Qualifications\nBachelor's degree required.\n10+ years of technology delivery leadership experience, including accountability for outcomes across complex, multi-workstream global infrastructure, security, or technology transformation portfolios.\nExperience in insurance or reinsurance, with a solid understanding of how infrastructure, cybersecurity, and information risk support underwriting, claims, and corporate functions and meet industry regulatory expectations; broader financial services experience will be considered.\nProven track record of disciplined portfolio execution, including managing dependencies, delivery risk, investment, and governance across multiple 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