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AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

Lead Release Manager - f/h

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSuresnes, France

About the Job

Requirements

  • The candidate must have confirmed experience in IT in similar positions, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
  • The candidate must have approximately 7–10 years of significant experience in a demanding environment.
  • The candidate must have a good knowledge of Agile environments, including Scrum and SAFe, and product organization models.
  • The candidate must have experience facilitating workshops and driving continuous improvement.
  • The candidate must be able to structure a backlog, prioritize, manage action plans, and ensure ongoing follow-up.
  • The candidate must be able to work autonomously, take ownership of topics end to end, deliver quickly, and make proposals without continuous direction.
  • The candidate must demonstrate professional maturity, strategic perspective, sound judgment, and the ability to arbitrate and prioritize in a fast-growing environment.
  • The candidate must be able to explain technical topics clearly and engage varied stakeholders across IT, business functions, suppliers, and management.
  • The candidate must be able to challenge, unite, and engage technical teams without direct hierarchical authority.
  • The candidate must demonstrate service orientation, customer relationship skills, rigor, proactivity, perseverance, and pragmatism.
  • The candidate must maintain high standards for quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.
  • The candidate must be able to drive change and structure and share knowledge to develop the skills of the team and organization.
  • The candidate must have a very good level of English to work in an international and multicultural environment.

Responsibilities

  • Structure and industrialize practices and standardize release management rituals and deliverables.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of release management processes, management of the bug and urgent-fix backlog, and initiatives for industrialization and automation.
  • Support and influence change management by raising awareness of release management best practices among IT and business teams, contributing to updates and distribution of procedures, the wiki, and knowledge bases, and acting as a reference and coach on methodologies and best practices within the team and across IT.
  • Coordinate Agile teams in France, Morocco, and Poland, as well as technical support and production teams.
  • Support teams in developing Agile maturity and encourage scaled self-organization.
  • Manage delivery flow, dependencies, and delivery predictability across Direct Assurance's information systems.
  • Establish and improve reporting and tracking tools for IT and business stakeholders, and participate in or facilitate committees monitoring delivery quality.
  • Centralize and track IT delivery calendars by applying release-management process steps, and improve delivery predictability and stability.
  • Identify all stakeholders impacted by delivery and ensure that all actions to secure delivery are completed.
  • Create and distribute communications to business and IT departments for major releases, providing visibility into functional impacts.
  • Facilitate delivery assurance forums.
  • Use Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and tools used to administer platforms.

Desired Qualifications

  • Functional knowledge of the insurance sector.

About the Company

AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

AXA is a global insurer and asset manager that provides life, health, and property and casualty insurance, as well as related financial services. Its products work by customers paying insurance premiums in exchange for coverage against risks; AXA pools risk across many policyholders, prices premiums based on risk, and pays claims when events occur, while also offering investment and retirement products through its asset management arm. The company has grown through large acquisitions, giving it a wide geographic footprint and a diverse mix of personal, commercial, and specialty insurance offerings. This scale and breadth set AXA apart from many competitors, alongside a long history of strategic mergers that expanded its reach to customers around the world. AXA’s goal is to be a leading global insurer and asset manager, delivering financial protection and long-term value to customers and stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1816

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