This role is hybrid and requires you to be in our Markham, ON office 2-3 times per week - subject to change at any time.

The purpose of the solution Architect role is to:

• Develop end to end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements.
• Identify impact to the system for the proposed changes and work with various stakeholders in quantify and qualifying the impact
• To identify the technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape
• Create framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
• Develop roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
• Support cost estimation and execution of the tech debt remediation
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to Aviva’s IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and governance.

YOUR FUTURE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Solutions and Assurance
o 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
o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions
o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals
o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state
o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes
o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases
o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.
o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.
o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE

Technical Leadership

• Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company’s architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.
• Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions.
• Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines
• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture, and engineering
• Peer reviews the design artefacts of others
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required
• Proven experience in solution architecture, roadmaps and architecture design and implementation.
• Knowledge of wider application technologies stack, and Infrastructure knowledge
• Knowledge of cloud native and modern application architecture
• Experience in building roadmap with interim state.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (agile).
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence
• Good stakeholder and relationship management
• Leadership skills

LI-GS

The purpose of the solution Architect role is to:

• Develop end to end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements.
• Identify impact to the system for the proposed changes and work with various stakeholders in quantify and qualifying the impact
• To identify the technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape
• Create framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
• Develop roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
• Support cost estimation and execution of the tech debt remediation
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to Aviva’s IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and governance