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About the Role

The Delivery Lead – Infrastructure & IRM is accountable for the outcomes of AXIS's portfolio of strategic Infrastructure and Information Risk Management (IRM) investments. This role 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. It drives disciplined portfolio execution, manages dependencies and risks, and provides transparent insights into delivery performance.

Responsibilities

Translate Infrastructure and IRM strategy into a sequenced, outcome-based portfolio with clear objectives, success measures, and accountable owners.
Lead annual and multi-year Infrastructure and IRM portfolio planning, identifying demand, shaping scope and estimates, and determining resource requirements.
Challenge and shape business cases to ensure investment delivers the greatest resilience, risk reduction, and business value.
Mobilize initiatives with the right team structures, capabilities, and partners, and secure necessary resources.
Ensure Infrastructure and Security dependencies are built into broader business and application programs from the outset.
Lead delivery across strategic initiatives covering infrastructure and cloud modernization, network, end-user technology, identity and access management, security operations, and technology resilience.
Maintain a forward-looking view of portfolio performance, identify slippage early, and take corrective action.
Own cross-project, cross-regional, and enterprise dependencies, including sequencing and critical path, and resolve conflicts.
Oversee design, build, testing, deployment, cutover, and stabilization with infrastructure, security, and business partners.
Apply commercial judgment in managing third-party and staff-augmentation partners.
Align Infrastructure, IRM, Architecture, and application delivery teams on backlogs, release plans, and capacity.
Drive delivery of prioritized automation and AI use cases from discovery through rollout.
Ensure business and security requirements, acceptance criteria, and value expectations are clearly defined.
Hold delivery accountable beyond implementation for effective operational handover, sustained adoption, and measurable value.
Lead the transition of Infrastructure and IRM from project-based delivery to persistent, product-aligned Agile teams.
Define team structures, roles, and decision rights, and establish planning and prioritization cadences.
Implement portfolio intake, prioritization, and capacity allocation across strategic initiatives, run and maintain activities, technical debt, security remediation, and audit findings.
Use delivery and flow measures to provide portfolio visibility and drive continuous improvement.
Own the portfolio investment, including forecasts, actuals, accruals, and variance, and recommend reallocation of funding and capacity.
Provide transparent, decision-ready reporting on progress, spend, risk, and value to senior leadership.
Define and track outcome measures and baselines for service availability, resilience, security risk posture, cost, and quality.
Maintain a benefits register and work with owners to evidence value realization and risk reduction.
Run proportionate, decision-focused portfolio governance, including steering committees, decision logs, and stage gates.
Proactively identify, assess, and manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, escalate with clear options, and drive timely resolution.
Manage scope and change control, assessing the impact of changes on outcomes, investment, schedule, and benefits.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit to ensure changes maintain effective IT general and security controls.
Ensure delivery controls and audit evidence meet COO delivery and enterprise standards.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior business, technology, and risk stakeholders, framing trade-offs and securing timely decisions.
Build alignment on priorities, sequencing, and investment across regions and functions.
Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans.
Partner with change management and training teams on change impact, readiness, training, and adoption activities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
10+ years of technology delivery leadership experience, including accountability for outcomes across complex, multi-workstream global infrastructure, security, or technology transformation portfolios.
Experience 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.
Proven track record of disciplined portfolio execution, including managing dependencies, delivery risk, investment, and governance across multiple stakeholders and third-party partners.
Demonstrated commercial judgment, including managing significant technology budgets, shaping business cases, managing vendor commercials, and making value-based trade-offs.
Track record of influencing senior executives and sponsors and securing decisions, including preparing and presenting executive-level reporting and steering committee materials.
Demonstrated experience delivering across multiple regions, time zones, and regulatory environments, including working with global and regional leadership.
Experience delivering infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, cybersecurity, automation, or AI-enabled solutions, including the related process, control, and change implications.
Experience leading the shift to Agile or product-aligned delivery in infrastructure, security, or operations-focused technology environments.

Skills

Outcome-oriented delivery leadership
Commercial judgment
Insurance and business acumen
Senior stakeholder influence
Ownership and accountability
Structured problem solving
Technology and security acumen
Transparent communication
Team leadership

Location

Global

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$80,000 - $100,000
$100,000 - $135,000 CAD

Benefits

Competitive target incentive compensation
Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
Medical plans for you and your family
Health and wellness programs
Retirement plans
Tuition reimbursement
Paid vacation

About the Company

AXIS Capital is a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.
We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders.
We 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.
At 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.

Equal Opportunity

All 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.