Solution Architect

Job description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

You are investing time and money into your education, building the foundation for a rewarding career. Have you considered insurance? More than 100,000 Canadians work in the insurance industry.

We make a positive difference every single day offering protection and peace of mind.

Aviva Canada Inc. is one of Canada’s largest insurance groups and we have a lot to offer to talented people just entering the working world.

Come join our team!

What you’ll do

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Create solutions and design for projects to meet Aviva’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.

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Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions

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Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree tradeoff between, long-term and short-term goals

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Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state

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Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes

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Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases

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Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.

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Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.

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Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs

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Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.

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Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions

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Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions

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Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines

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Ensure design artefacts are produced to support partner group for service, security, architecture and engineering

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Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required

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Identify, own, and lead 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

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Ensure that issues and actions associated to controls / risks are remediated in a timely manner

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Maintain appropriate records on iCARE or Archer

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Ensure that controls are sufficiently well designed and operating effectively to keep the risks that they mitigate within Aviva's tolerance level

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Report and call out the status of the relevant risks, controls, and standards as appropriate

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Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process, and other guidelines.

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Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis

What you’ll bring

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Proven experience in digital and integration architecture design and implementation

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Strong knowledge of digital technologies, cloud computing, and modern development practices

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Certified in the public cloud (AWS or Azure)

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Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (mainly agile).

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Strong technical experience. This maybe broad experience with the ability to apply it across a variety of

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customer and business scenarios.

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The role holder must care about technology and how to exploit it for the benefit of our customers.

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Financial savvy to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.

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Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.

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Good communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.

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Good stakeholder and relationship management

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Leadership skills

What you get

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Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

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Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

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We’ll support your professional development education.

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Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

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Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

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Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

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Hybrid flexible work model

Aviva Canada has an accommodation process in place to provide accommodations for employees with disabilities. If upon commencement of employment you require a specific accommodation because of a disability, please contact your Talent Acquisition Partner so that an appropriate accommodation can be arranged. This process applies throughout your career with Aviva Canada.