Enterprise Architect, Aviva
Digital
£102.5-120.6k
+ Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Open for applications
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£102.5-120.6k
+ Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary
1001+ employees
Company mission
With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Enterprise Architecture skills, with specific coverage of Digital technologies
- Recent, relevant, and deep experience in web, app and customer experience technologies
- Track record of operating at senior levels within a large, regulated business, ideally within Financial Services
- Financial competence to support development of investment propositions and to inform key design decisions
- Ability to think long-term strategically and operationally - anticipating future trends/needs
What the job involves
- Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture (Customer & Marketing), you will define and lead on Digital technology direction, while also looking across the Group in line with our customer centric “One Aviva” strategy
- Accountable for developing & maintaining technology strategy and roadmaps for Aviva’s Digital estate, working closely with senior representatives from our best-in-class business areas as well as taking a broad view across Aviva, you will work with a broad variety of research organisations and suppliers to understand technology trends and select the right foundations for Aviva
- The role will focus on the value that architecture can provide to our customers and the organisation, across technologies, processes, and capability changes, with specific alignment to our Digital strategy, in support of a business-critical change portfolio
- We believe that this is a real opportunity for someone to put their stamp on Aviva’s direction, while receiving robust support and investment from our senior leadership
- As a member of our Global Architecture team, the role benefits from being part of an Aviva-wide architecture and technology community with regular events, external connections, and a focus on supporting and enabling personal development
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Company values
- Care
- Commitment
- Community
- Confidence
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(CEO, not founder)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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