Aviva are now recruiting for a Change Analyst to support a variety of exciting IT development projects.

Our Data and Analytics Platform (DAP) Design team manage, prepare, and assure a wide selection of data assets to support a diverse group of business areas within our GI, Healthcare and group businesses. Key internal stakeholders include the finance, actuarial, and regulatory reporting teams, alongside various MI, Business Intelligence and Data Science communities within Aviva.

This successful candidate will work with change and business teams to identify requirements and define solutions to support a range of development and transformation projects, balancing the needs of business projects with the need to continually modernize our complex IT estate.   As a member of the Design Team, you will provide support and design guidance across multiple platform teams, collaborating with business users, solution developers, solution architects, and fellow Designers.  Our Design Team is multi-disciplined and multi-faceted. 

We are constantly modernising our complex data estate. Cloud and Data Lake are our strategic targets, whilst supporting business self-service were possible.  We welcome those with these specific skills – or with a healthy appetite to learn and develop these skills with us.

The precise allocation of projects / responsibilities will be influenced by the strengths and abilities of the successful candidate.

The role’s duties & responsibilities:

• Interpreting business requirements and defining High Level solution designs.

• Participate, lead, and contribute to relevant business/scrum/project meetings.

• Proposing, evaluating, and presenting design options (Key Design Decisions).

• Act as a recognised subject matter expert and key contact within the context of the role.

• Keeping abreast of our IT Strategy, and ensuring solution designs align.

• Working with our third-party developers (on and offshore) to ensure correct project solutions are applied.

• Being a subject matter expert (Lead Engineer) in a technology or system to lead change in that area of expertise.

• Be involved in shaping/pre-inception work, assessing the initial impact of new initiatives/projects across the estate.

• Broad knowledge of the Aviva organisation its business processes/ products.

Skills & experiences required:

• Good verbal and written communication specifically with business stakeholders.

• Good analytical, decision making and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to elicit / interpret requirements from business users and liaise with data and systems SMEs.

• Good facilitation skills.

• Enthusiasm to learn.

• Good leadership, negotiating and influencing skills.

• Business Analysis tools and techniques.

• Change Management processes.

• Ability to explain technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.

• Familiarity with Finance processes and terminology would be beneficial.

• Experience in working in data space would be an advantage.

• Basic SQL knowledge would be advantageous.

What will you get for this role?

• Salary of circa £35,000 depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme.

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review.

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply).

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme.

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alice Neal a call on 0121 200 5926 or send an email to alice.neal@aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.