Client is a leading provider in the Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance sector, offering a wide range of insurance products and services tailored to protect individuals and businesses from financial loss. The company's core offerings include coverage for property damage, liability, and personal injury related to various risks such as accidents, natural disasters, and business operations.
The purpose of the Solution Architect role is to:
- Develop end-to-end solution architecture for projects, meeting business requirements.
- Create a DevOps strategy for the enterprise and support the migration of existing pipelines to the target toolset.
- Identify the system impact of proposed changes and collaborate with stakeholders to quantify and qualify that impact.
- Identify technical debt across applications and infrastructure in the landscape.
- Establish a framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
- Develop roadmaps with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
- Support cost estimation and execution of technical debt remediation.
- Deliver solutions aligned with Aviva’s IT strategy and architecture goals.
- Ensure compliance with standards, design approaches, and governance.
Accountabilities:
Solutions and Assurance
- Design and create solutions that meet Aviva's technology standards, addressing availability, security, resilience, and performance.
- Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable informed investment decisions.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, and platform teams to balance long-term and short-term goals.
- Ensure the integrity of end-to-end solutions across platforms, including transition states.
- Estimate IT initiatives and sprint features to meet business outcomes.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Record solution debt incurred during the transition phase and address it in future phases.
- Identify risks and challenges related to proposed solutions, developing mitigation strategies.
- Participate in post-implementation reviews to improve future designs.
Technical Leadership
- Stay up-to-date with technological developments and assess how they fit into the company's architecture.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms for solution development and deployment.
- Define and enforce architecture best practices and standards.
- Conduct architecture reviews for compliance with guidelines.
- Produce design artifacts to support stakeholders in service, security, architecture, and engineering.
- Conduct peer reviews of design artifacts and provide mentoring to less experienced team members.
Design Community Membership
- Contribute to the Solution Architecture community by leading or participating in initiatives to enhance Aviva’s design approach.
- Develop technical skills to support Aviva's need to leverage emerging technology trends.
Risk & Controls
- Identify, own, and manage key risks and IT controls related to iCARE or Archer systems.
- Ensure timely remediation of issues and actions related to controls/risks.
- Keep risks mitigated within Aviva's tolerance level and report their status accordingly.
Problem Solving:
- Solve project-based technical problems in alignment with policies and processes.
- Handle problems ranging from repetitive daily issues to complex technical challenges.
- Escalate issues following guidelines.
Change Management:
- Recommend design solutions to address challenges faced by projects or feature teams.
- Take initiative in adapting to change and recommending improvements based on expertise.
Collaboration:
- Build effective working relationships with project managers, platform managers, architects, and specialists.
External Interaction:
- Maintain contact with suppliers and technology sources to stay updated with relevant knowledge.
Values:
- Care: Make a positive difference in customers’ lives, solving problems and building meaningful relationships.
- Commitment: Act with courage, take ownership, and fulfill promises, understanding the global impact of the work.
- Community: Collaborate and win together, connecting with each other, customers, and communities.
- Confidence: Be brave and passionate, setting new standards for innovation and the future.
Capabilities:
- Proven experience in solution architecture, roadmaps, and design implementation.
- Strong DevOps expertise with exposure to a wide DevOps toolset.
- Broad knowledge of application technologies and infrastructure.
- Experience in creating roadmaps with interim states.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and the full project lifecycle.
- Financial acumen for business case development and design decisions.
- Strong communication and technical guidance skills.
- Stakeholder management and leadership abilities.