Engineering Lead, Aviva
Digital Platforms
CA$113.5-210.9k
+ Annual bonus + Share plan
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$113.5-210.9k
+ Annual bonus + Share plan
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
- Technical Expertise: Senior object-oriented developer/architect with significant experience in Java and JavaScript
- Architectural Knowledge: Experience in Microservices architecture, Domain Driven Design, and API Design
- Approach to Development: Demonstrable approach to development that prioritizes testing and familiarity with test engineering
- Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate complex technical designs to both senior leaders and software development teams
- Engineering Best Practices: Knowledge of modern build processes, CI/CD, and application pipelines is required
- Business Acumen: Commercial acumen to support business cases and inform key design decisions
- Leadership Experience: Experienced in a technical leadership role in Agile projects
- Self-Motivation: Self-starter and independent worker able to coordinate their time across multiple workstreams and collaborators
- Container management: Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- Aviva has an excellent opportunity for an Engineering Lead on our Digital Platforms!
- We need a Senior Software Engineer & Architect to lead our Digital team
- You will ensure high-quality software design and implementation and promote continuous improvement among developers
- Lead Technical Design: Own the overall technical design of one or more digital platforms, ensuring they meet high standards of quality, security, performance and scalability
- Hands-On Development: Lead by example by writing reference code and pair programming with the development team
- Encourage team members to adopt a mentality of continuous improvement and taking ownership, while promoting the use of DRY principles, refactoring strategies, and test-driven techniques
- Technical Roadmap: Partner with our Digital Product Managers to develop and execute the technical roadmap of the platform, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Collaboration: Work closely with senior developers, Application Security, and Architecture teams to plan, design, develop, test, and implement solutions
- Project Planning: Plan the implementation of complex applications with multiple components
- Balanced Development: Be accountable for maintaining a balanced development velocity
- Security Practices: Promote secure development practices and security awareness within the development team - with a shift-left focus
- Documentation: Ensure adequate documentation of solutions for operational acceptance and future development
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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