IT Lifecycle Planning Manager

Job description details

Job ref: 2025-7142

Closing date: 23/07/2025

Location:
Tunbridge Wells | Redhill | Bristol | Bolton

Career area:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Salary:
Up to £65,000 dependent on experience


We have an exciting opportunity within our Lifecycle Portfolio team as an IT Lifecycle Planning Manager.

Reporting into the Senior IT Portfolio Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing the lifecycle of several hundred technology products, both applications and infrastructure. You’ll be part of the Lifecycle Portfolio Team, responsible for ensuring each technology product has a well-defined roadmap, aligning the efforts of IT application owners, enterprise architects and project managers. With our ambitious plan to decommission over 100 applications in the next three years, this initiative aims to simplify our technology landscape, reduce costs and enhance the overall customer experience.

You’ll track, guide and support projects to ensure that we realize the benefits of decommissioning legacy technologies. Whilst this role owns the decommissioning process, it does not encompass direct project delivery, this position is ideal for individuals with a background in architecture, IT service management or IT project management.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Engaging with Enterprise Architecture, IT Application Owners, Product Managers and Project Managers to build and maintain comprehensive multi-year roadmaps, including all decoms, ensuring alignment with business objectives
  • Maintaining visibility across the portfolio of all in-year projects that will result in decommission of technology, tracking key milestones, RAG, funding positions, and delivery confidence levels
  • Owning the decommissioning framework, processes, and controls, providing guidance to projects through a structured end-to-end technology decommissioning process, acting as a trusted advisor on internal processes, including data protection standards and change management
  • Assessing risk and agreeing resulting technical debt response and decom plans
  • Proactively seek opportunities to expedite the decommissioning of technologies
  • Ensuring the IT platform and any changes are compliant with business, regulatory and group policy requirements
  • Creating and presenting MI for business stakeholders to monitor progress towards simplification and decommissioning targets

What you’ll bring:

  • Strong understanding of technology architectures, application dependencies, and integration points is essential e.g. architecture, IT service management (ITIL, ITSM, ITAM), or IT project management
  • Knowledge of risk management and risk mitigation in a technology setting
  • Competence in project management methodologies and frameworks
  • Ability to represent at senior stakeholder forums, effectively communicating the status and importance of decommissioning activities
  • Proven ability maintaining a network of stakeholders across various disciplines
  • Focus on continuous improvement within the decommissioning process, leveraging lessons learned to refine methodologies and enhance efficiency

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

  • Competitive annual salary of up to £65,000 dependent on experience
  • Annual company & performance-based bonus
  • Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
  • Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
  • Private health cover
  • 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
  • Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
  • Wellbeing services & resources
  • AXA employee discounts

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AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.

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We acknowledge and appreciate the exceptional efforts of our people in protecting what matters most to our customers. In exchange we offer a series of core and supporting benefits designed to empower our people to thrive both professionally and personally.

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