Windows OS Product Owner

Windows OS Product Owner

Job Purpose

As a Global Service Owner for distributed managed OS, your main objective is to protect all service‑oriented non‑technical processes for end‑to‑end IT product management.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage all technical and architectural oriented platforms and processes within a formal ITIL Enterprise Foundation framework (ITSM) and Global Enterprise Product (Windows Server).
• Focus on QoS, product evolution, design and automation (including AI technologies) for distributed managed OS product teams (Windows Server).
• Act as governance, escalation and coordinating instance to reduce MTTR, MTTA, MTTF, MTBF scenarios within the product, increasing product efficiency and outlook.
• Oversee all relevant KPIs, SLAs, OLAs for the product team and establish a proactive communication and sharing environment to further optimize and support new upcoming trends like AI‑Ops, shift‑left activities, proactive incident avoidance and automation capabilities for operational business.
• Manage your global build‑engineering squad offering Windows Server solutions to the global AXA Group.
• Drive global team transformation and team enhancement across all time zones.
• Be the trusted advisor instance in the product to troubleshoot, support and assist on Windows Server functionality and evolution.

Expected Skills & Experience

• Experience:
  • Senior and advanced experience in managing ITIL / Prosci related enterprise environments (e.g., ADKAR within change management).
  • Good understanding of state‑of‑the‑art enterprise IT environments, especially managed OS and managed databases (distributed server environments including Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL).
  • Good knowledge of current and legacy operating systems and databases.
  • Deep understanding of QoS frameworks and how to manage and optimize QoS concepts.
  • Advanced knowledge of ITIL V3/V4 service delivery processes.
  • Specific experience with ITSM processes such as Incident, Problem, and Change (IPC).
  • Interest in future‑oriented cloud solutions and platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or private data center technologies.
  • Base or advanced experience in Power BI development.
• Technical Skills:
  • Management of enterprise environments following ITIL/Prosci frameworks.
  • Expertise in ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change).
  • Knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure (operating systems, databases, cloud platforms).
  • Power BI development skills.
  • Understanding and application of QoS frameworks and optimization techniques.
  • Executive‑level communication and presentation skills, including handling sensitive client issues.
• Soft Skills / Transversal Skills:
  • Leadership and organizational skills with the ability to guide and mentor key stakeholders.
  • Autonomous, proactive, and able to manage complex situations independently.
  • Team spirit with a strong attitude in relationship management and team building.
  • Open‑minded, strong communication skills, and stakeholder management.
  • Customer‑centric and results‑oriented mindset.
  • Ability to influence, analyze processes and trends, and drive improvements.
  • Multicultural sensitivity and love for working in global, distributed environments.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including managing relationships and working autonomously.
  • Proactive and self‑organized work approach.
  • Good command of English (upper intermediate level).

Where Will You Be in the Organization?

Group Technology Operations (GTO) aims at designing, developing, and operating global AXA IT products, delivering them to AXA entities and the AXA Group, at the right level of quality of service and cost and aligned with business‑driven priorities. Its missions can be summarized in four main activities: global product delivery, global product portfolio management, day‑to‑day operations management, and entities proximity management.

You will join the Distributed & Mainframe Global Products department, which delivers final products for the AXA’s entities (e.g. POD, Z and ISeries, DC) and transversal components or intermediate products to other products departments (e.g. Cloud, Workplace...).

We rely on more than 220 people to handle product development in an agile way while taking care of major transformation programs such as One DataCenter (defining and implementing the datacenter strategic plan jointly with the AXA entities) or ATLAS (a strategic program mixing cloud solutions, core IT optimization, infrastructure modernization, and technical services rationalization).

• Be a cornerstone of the cloud strategy and accompany the cloud transformation, having a specific role on the design and delivery of the new infrastructure hosting platform within our datacenters (SDDC‑POD), while supporting the migration to target platforms.
• Protect core‑IT QoS over the next years by selective refresh while continuing to decommission related infrastructure.
• Migrate technical services to the new cloud target.
• Enhance our ecosystem toolset introducing AIOps where it makes sense (e.g. request with bots, monitoring with machine learning).
• Define One Datacenter strategy to rationalize our DC footprint and define related right target operating model.
• Continue our department transformation into a global product‑driven organization.

What We Offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting diversity & inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.

Boulogne‑Billancourt, Île‑de‑France, France