At Aviva, we are looking to transform the way in which we engage with our customers. Digital and Cloud technology is key, and agile methodologies are at the heart of our strategy. So, we’re now looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join us. Someone to be responsible for the end-to-end solution designs that drive this vision forward. This person will be a key part of a wider global architecture practice and will be passionate about driving, improving and promoting the process and delivery of architecture (and its value) across the organisation.

Aviva has now introduced “smart-working”, and the person in this role can be based anywhere in the UK, as long as they are comfortable regularly travelling to one of our offices weekly.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about defining the end-to-end solutions for IT change programmes which support our customers

• Can build end-to-end designs that are fit for purpose from a functional, non-functional, service, and security point of view.

• Can deliver solutions that move our overall architecture forwards, in line with Aviva’s IT Strategy

• Can drive improvement in design quality

• Will provide technical direction and support to our business and technology stakeholders in delivering change

The role’s duties & responsibilities:

• Crafting solutions and design for projects to meet Aviva’s standards for technology, ensuring they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience and performance

• Providing coaching, mentoring and training to less experienced Solution Architects as required

• Providing leadership on key designs to ensure the long-term strategic goals of Aviva IT are met as well as short term project needs

• Performing early triage and shaping of IT initiatives to support investment decisions and initial delivery planning

• Ensuring design artefacts are produced to support service, security, architecture and engineering

• Supervising the integrity of end-to-end solutions, including transition states used to achieve target state

Skills & experiences required:

• Passionate about technology and how to exploit it for the benefit of our customers!

• Deep technical experience - this may be broad with the ability to apply it across a variety of customer and business scenarios, or strong domain specialisms to maximise the benefits of technology in key areas

• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions

• Excellent design and architecture skills

• A track record of strong business partner and relationship management at all levels

• A “technical leader” to support, develop and lead others

• Experience of agile delivery methods

• Experience in cloud technologies is desirable (esp. Amazon Web Services)

What will you get for this role?

• A salary up to £60,000 depending on location, 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 Daniel Hopchet a call on 0121 234 7625 or send an email to Daniel.Hopchet@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.