Aviva
Enterprise Architect
Job Location
Bristol, United Kingdom
Job Description
Business-Focused Enterprise Architect - Salary Circa £92,000.
Can you understand complex, multi-dimensional concepts and communicate them clearly to a broad range of audiences? Come and join our Aviva IT Architecture team! Bring a new perspective to our strategic technology direction which you will set with our business and technology senior leadership.
Aviva UK Insurance, Wealth, and Retirement (IWR) is a growing business that offers a wide range of market-leading products to individual, SME, and large corporate customers through multiple distribution channels. We are committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and efficiency.
You will act as a trusted partner for the business, building challenging yet achievable architecture roadmaps, proposing investment ideas, setting principles / standards, and providing delivery oversight. In Aviva CIO, we have a strong learning culture and Aviva's sustainability focus includes benefits like volunteering days and community events.
A bit about the job:
Aviva is a large, sophisticated, constantly evolving, regulated organisation. In this role you will support the business in achieving customer and commercial goals, as well as finding ways to modernise and simplify our technology estate. All of this while taking the right approach to risk.
Collaborate with the business to understand customer needs, inform business strategy, and guide the technology direction. Gain external perspective through regular interactions with partners, suppliers, and peers.
This Enterprise Architect role reports into the Head of IT Architecture for Aviva IWR, part of our Global Architecture community and practice.
The role is ideally based in one of our main IWR locations: Bristol, York, or Norwich. Aviva's "smart working" policy requires that we spend at least half our time in an office. Travel to our London head office and other Aviva and supplier locations will be necessary.
Skills and experience we're looking for:
What you'll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.
Aviva is for everyone:
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.
We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com
Location: Bristol, GB
Posted Date: 11/21/2024
Can you understand complex, multi-dimensional concepts and communicate them clearly to a broad range of audiences? Come and join our Aviva IT Architecture team! Bring a new perspective to our strategic technology direction which you will set with our business and technology senior leadership.
Aviva UK Insurance, Wealth, and Retirement (IWR) is a growing business that offers a wide range of market-leading products to individual, SME, and large corporate customers through multiple distribution channels. We are committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and efficiency.
You will act as a trusted partner for the business, building challenging yet achievable architecture roadmaps, proposing investment ideas, setting principles / standards, and providing delivery oversight. In Aviva CIO, we have a strong learning culture and Aviva's sustainability focus includes benefits like volunteering days and community events.
A bit about the job:
Aviva is a large, sophisticated, constantly evolving, regulated organisation. In this role you will support the business in achieving customer and commercial goals, as well as finding ways to modernise and simplify our technology estate. All of this while taking the right approach to risk.
Collaborate with the business to understand customer needs, inform business strategy, and guide the technology direction. Gain external perspective through regular interactions with partners, suppliers, and peers.
This Enterprise Architect role reports into the Head of IT Architecture for Aviva IWR, part of our Global Architecture community and practice.
The role is ideally based in one of our main IWR locations: Bristol, York, or Norwich. Aviva's "smart working" policy requires that we spend at least half our time in an office. Travel to our London head office and other Aviva and supplier locations will be necessary.
Skills and experience we're looking for:
- Strong communication: visual, written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences
- Analytical skills and decision-making; thinks critically and considers long-term implications
- Balance of relevant technical knowledge, business, and commercial understanding
- Builds strong, open relationships at all levels with colleagues, partners, and external parties
- Appetite to learn and grow; bring new insights and drive forward our architectural thinking
What you'll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- Salary Circa £92,000. (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's
- Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
- Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
- Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.
Aviva is for everyone:
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.
We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com
Location: Bristol, GB
Posted Date: 11/21/2024
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