Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Architect to join our innovative and tech-driven Infrastructure Team!

The team is part of the broader IT Team who are passionate about the solutions they provide and work together to achieve exceptional solution outcomes. We would love for you to be as enthusiastic about defining end-to-end solutions for infrastructure change as we are!

You will be given the opportunity to craft end-to-end infrastructure solutions for key initiatives, projects and feature teams for Aviva. You will support, improve and promote the process and delivery of infrastructure architecture across the organization by creating solution architectures that are fit for purpose from a functional, non-functional, service and security point of view. This is a great opportunity for you to architect and define solutions that progress Aviva's infrastructure architecture journey in line with IT strategy and Aviva's standards, policies and approach to governance.

What you'll do

• Create and articulate solutions and design for projects to meet Aviva's standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience and performance
• Produce design options with associated costs, benefits and risks to enable investment decisions
• Work with Product Owners, Enterprise Architects, Development and Infrastructure teams and other project colleagues to govern the competing perspectives between long-term and short-term goals
• Be responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end technical solution, including transition states used to achieve the target state
• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes
• Provide leadership on key designs to ensure long term strategic goals of Aviva IT are met, as well as short-term project needs
• Ensure you produce artifacts to support the stakeholder group for service, security, architecture and engineering
• Peer review the artifacts of others - provide coaching, mentoring and training to less experienced team members as required
• Contribute to the Infrastructure Architecture community across Aviva Group, leading on or participating in initiatives to improve Aviva's approach to design
• Develop your own technical skills to support Aviva's appetite to understand and exploit emerging technology trends
• Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process and other guidelines
• Be accountable for recommending change based on your experience, know-how and analysis

What you will bring:

• Excellent architecture skills
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (mainly agile)

• A wealth of broad technical experience within an infrastructure sphere, with the ability to apply it across a variety of customer and business scenariosTake ownership - Lead and balance multiple projects at once with changing priorities and see it through to completion.
• Take ownership - Lead and balance multiple projects at once with changing priorities and see it through to completion.
• Execution - Excellent communicator who can articulate complex concepts in an engaging, persuasive, and digestible manner.

• Big Picture - Analytical thinker focused on qualitative and quantitative data to project future vision for the organization.
• Execution - Excellent communicator who can articulate complex concepts in an engaging, persuasive, and digestible manner.Big Picture - Analytical thinker focused on qualitative and quantitative data to project future vision for the organization.
• Able to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, to be able to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management
• Experience of performing a Lead Architect role on specific Infrastructure projects
• Experience of architecting infrastructure solutions in the following technical domains:

• DataCentre, Hosting or Storage platforms
• Cloud Technologies
• Network and communications
• End User Services
• Security or Service Management platforms

Desirable skills:

• Experience of solution architecture and architecture methodologies e.g. TOGAF
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform on key design decisions
• Experience with applications required to document and deliver solution proposals and documentation (PowerPoint, Visio, etc.)
• Agile (Scrum or Kanban) experience including use of Jira

What will you get:

• Join a great company and culture, and a great team!
• Competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications
• Comprehensive benefits package, including Medical/Dental, defined contribution pension plan, share matching plan
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Vacation allowance of 20 days plus statutory holidays, personal floater day, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional vacation days
• Discounts on many Aviva products through the Employee Purchase Program plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)

Additional Information

Aviva Canada is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities during all phases of the hiring process including the application process. If you require an accommodation because of a disability, we will work with you to meet your needs. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. If you are selected for an interview and require an accommodation, you are encouraged to advise the Talent Acquisition Partner who will consult with you to determine an appropriate accommodation.