CTO jobs in Sandymount, County Dublin

What you’ll be doing

• Act as the primary technology and AI partner to APAC Europe and ESS shaping business direction through technology-led opportunities.
• Provide insights on AI disruption, competitor landscape, and modern digital and AI business models relevant to insurance.
• Translate complex technology concepts into commercial and operational implications for executive decision-making.

• Convert business strategy into a prioritized and funded technology and AI roadmap.
• Define the sequencing of initiatives based on value, feasibility, regulatory constraints, and delivery capacity.
• Ensure roadmaps integrate digital, data, AI, automation, and core platform modernization.
• Drive robust partnerships within the Tech & AI leadership team to ensure common principles, frameworks and guidelines are deployed and executed with effective coordination across all disciplines in the function.

• Represent APAC Europe and ESS’ needs into enterprise technology investment forums.
• Own business unit-level investment cases, ensuring clarity of ROI, outcomes, and measurable benefits.
• Challenge the business on value definition and ensure initiatives meet enterprise architecture, security, and AI governance requirements.

• Own the technology and AI portfolio for the region and ESS, ensuring delivery performance, dependencies, and risks are actively managed.
• Hold delivery teams accountable for execution outcomes while ensuring the business fulfils its accountabilities (SMEs, process change, adoption).
• Provide clear reporting to Global Leadership Team partner(s) on delivery confidence, risks, financial position, and benefits tracking.

• Challenging and influencing senior stakeholders with poise and composure, facilitating decision-making forums, resolving prioritization conflicts and driving outcomes.
• Build alignment across business functions including underwriting, claims, pricing, finance, customer operations, and distribution.

• Drive enterprise AI adoption within the business unit, ensuring:
• • high-value use cases are identified
  • adoption and operating model impacts are planned
  • workforce readiness is supported
  • human-in-the-loop and control frameworks are implemented
• Ensure AI is embedded into workflows rather than delivered as standalone tools.

• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Security to ensure delivery aligns to regulatory and control requirements.
• Ensure AI initiatives comply with Responsible AI, privacy, and model risk expectations.
• Ensure technology resilience and service continuity risks are visible and actively managed.

• Partner with Procurement and Technology leadership to shape vendor strategy aligned to business unit priorities.
• Support contract negotiations, supplier performance management, and strategic partnerships.
• Ensure commercial outcomes align to delivery outcomes and service performance.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Keen understanding of business strategy, financial drivers, and operational performance levers.
• Able to challenge executives constructively and influence investment decisions.

• Keen understanding of enterprise technology including:
• • product engineering and agile delivery
  • cloud platforms and modern architecture
  • data platforms and AI enablement
  • automation and workflow transformation
• Outstanding ability to evaluate AI opportunities pragmatically (value, feasibility, risk).

• Excellent portfolio and programme oversight capability.
• Ability to balance competing priorities, resource constraints, and dependencies.
• Robust governance, reporting, and delivery confidence management.

• Deep understanding of regulated environments and technology control frameworks.
• Awareness of Responsible AI, data privacy, and model risk management principles.

• Ability to build deep trust across business and technology.

What we offer

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We are training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

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