Cloud and Hosting are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect, or SME who is experienced with supplier hosted infrastructure who can confidently work across technologies and disciplines and would like to pivot their skills to Cloud.

Responsibilities within the role:

• Provide technical leadership for Suppliers, Cloud and Hosting team or programme of work within the Cloud and Hosting Change portfolio

• Design shared services and help drive the delivery of new platforms and features available from our Suppliers or Cloud capabilities.

• Build and maintain technical strategies, Governance and design frameworks

• Provide consultancy, best practice and architectural support to our internal teams and for Suppliers

• Represent Cloud and Hosting in Architecture governance forums, authorising and submitting relevant papers

• Recognised as a technology leader and trusted advisor and an active contributor across communities and forums

• Remain abreast of the latest open source and Cloud technologies, platforms, and service providers and supplier capabilities

• Management responsibility of areas within Design and Transformation, including training, managing and mentoring junior team members

• Act as technical design authority for applications migrating and transform to Cloud or Hosted platforms.

• Where required, provide a point of ‘forth line’ escalation and leadership in the event of service issues (‘Sev 1’ or Major incident)

Specific skills and experience required:

• Strong technology infrastructure specialising in Microsoft technologies, Midrange or Storage

• Experience being a Lead Architect on programmes - driving the delivery of projects in a complex environment

• Able to articulate complex technical problems for an executive audience 

• Strong problem solving, analytical skills and curiosity.

• Experience in one or more Cloud technology and its related technologies, with a proven background in traditional IT Hosting.

• An individual who can lead with authority, and has Outstanding stakeholder management and soft skills experience

• Experience working closely with defined architecture patterns and standards to build a roadmap for a platform

• Clear understanding of risk management and security principles and of working in a financial or regulated industry

• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure (Identity, networking, deployment, compute)

• Strong experience with configuration and lifecycle management

• Keep abreast with developments in the IT industry and retail market space to ensure architectures are kept in line with industry standard

These skills are preferred, but not essential:

• Cloud or architectural certifications

• Work in a commercial / outsourced environment where detailed activity is carried out by a third party

• Experience working in a regulated workplace

• Experience mentoring or leading a team or junior colleagues

• Background in Business Technology consulting or infrastructure architecture

What will you get for this role?

• Salary up to £83,100 depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications

• A generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• A 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 Lacey Lane Mckoy a call on 0207 255 0884 or send an email to lacey.lane-mckoy@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.