Duties & Responsibilities

• Providing technical design insight and support to software engineers, technical designers, infrastructure teams and others to support change and run activities on the platform.

• Scope, manage & implement activity in accordance with the agreed platform strategy for aligned customer areas.

• Development and consultancy in relation to system/schema design, access patterns, locking strategy, SQL development, proactive and reactive tuning (including parameter config and tuning), capacity/cache management, job scheduling and maintenance.

• Technical leadership to teams of engineers and developers; develop the capability of your team and their people.

• Identify, manage and control risks and Issues. Recommend appropriate ways of managing risks identified within proposed solutions.

• Identify, own and handle the specific key risks and/or IT controls and BP standards that you are identified as the owner and/or nominee for on iCARE or Archer.

• Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis of precedent and similar previous problems
   

Skills & Experience required:

• Professional software development experience.

• Programming experience – Java preferred but will consider C++ or C#.

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems.

• Proactive ‘can do’ attitude, good verbal and written communication skills enabling interaction between people of all levels.

• Significant knowledge of application support, development processes, standards and associated techniques.

• Proven knowledge of technical platforms, software engineering practices and system management methodologies.

• Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills.
   

Skills that are desirable but not required:

• IT Degree.

• Prince 2 practitioner / ITIL Foundation.

• Operating Systems like Linux/Unix experience.

• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills.
   

What will you get for this role?

• Salary up to £62,000 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 responsibility, 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 Abigail Aitken a call on 0203 880 6129 or send an email to abigail.aitken@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.