Technical Delivery Lead - Salary Circa £50,000.
Are you a tech-savvy leader with a passion for platform enablement, engineering, DevOps, and automation? If so, we want to hear from you!
 

Join our dynamic platform enablement team and drive innovation in platform engineering and enablement.
 

As part of the Platform Engineering Team within the Tech Platforms business unit, the Platform Enablement Technical Lead focuses on maintaining and enhancing integration platforms (AWS EKS, Amazon MQ) and delivering technical capabilities for new demands and BAU initiatives.

A bit about the job:

• Lead a team of skilled engineers to enhance integration platform reliability and operational efficiency. Mentor a diverse team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and implementing core platform capabilities such as monitoring, observability, and DevSecOps methodologies.

• Oversee and deliver various work streams across API Gateway and integration platforms, while advancing the existing platform. Manage team deliveries with a mix of GSPs and insourced teams, allocate daily tasks, and resolve team blockers.

• Identify and develop opportunities to extend integration platform functions into new business areas like Serverless APIs and Eventing capabilities. Conduct Proof of Concept for technical evaluations and initiatives and communicate technical perspectives to senior leadership.

• Perform design and code reviews to ensure systems meet both functional and non-functional requirements, identify necessary changes, and handle platform audits from a technical perspective. Contribute to shaping technical standards and guidelines, ensuring consistency across integration platforms and tools.

• Deploy, automate, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance integration platforms, ensuring security, performance, monitoring, and design integrity. Proactively manage environment costs and identify cost-reduction opportunities.

Aviva operates a “smart working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office this role is based in Norwich.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Expertise in containerization technologies (AWS EKS), API gateway (preferably Kong API Gateway), and service mesh (preferably Kong Mesh/Kuma/Envoy) alongside experience in a high-level programming language (Java) and integrating applications using web services (REST, SOAP, etc.).

• Skilled in DevOps technologies such as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation, Vault, version control, and scripting languages, along with experience with GitOps, FluxCD, and setting up container orchestration platforms (EKS).

• Experienced with software development tools (Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Artifactory, SonarQube), AWS cloud platforms and Proficiency in software development practices (Terraform, YAML, Python, Groovy, Bash) and familiar with automated testing tools and methodologies within CI/CD frameworks.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including business teams, development teams, and partners, coupled with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, capable of triaging, debugging, and resolving complex issues in production-grade environments.

• Familiar with architectures such as microservice architecture and event-driven architecture. Capable of producing High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), and cloud architecture designs.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary circa £50,000 depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to [email protected]