Head of GenAI Architecture

Aviva Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 25%

Pension scheme

29 days holiday

Private Medical Benefit

Aviva product discounts

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn

Parental and carer’s leave

Flexible benefits

Cycle to work

Volunteer days

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva plc in London is seeking a Head of GenAI Architecture to shape the enterprise AI strategy, governance, and architecture for Generative AI across the organisation.

You will partner with senior technology, data, security, risk and business leaders to deliver scalable AI capabilities while ensuring security, compliance and responsible AI practices.

This senior role offers a pathway to influence Aviva's AI roadmap and drive meaningful outcomes for customers and colleagues.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise architecture strategy within a large and complex organisation.
• Deep expertise in Generative AI and emerging AI technologies with scalable outcomes.
• Strong ability to communicate complex concepts to executives in business terms.
• Understanding of security, privacy, governance, resilience and risk in regulated environments.
• Experience building architecture teams and communities of practice.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise architecture strategy for Generative AI and emerging AI technologies.
• Establish long-term vision, roadmaps, standards and governance for AI at scale.
• Partner with senior leaders to identify opportunities delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Provide architectural leadership across enterprise AI platforms, LLMs and AI patterns.
• Mentor architecture talent and develop reusable patterns and best practices.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Generative AI

Stakeholder management

Security & risk

Cloud/data platforms

Job description

Head of GenAI Architecture

Salary: London: Circa £150k / Regional: Circa 130k

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Norwich, York, Eastleigh, Glasgow or Perth

This is a great job for someone who is passionate about shaping how Artificial Intelligence transforms a large, customer-focused organisation. You may already be leading AI, cloud, data or enterprise architecture teams and be looking for an opportunity to influence strategy at the highest level. You'll enjoy balancing innovation with responsibility, helping teams adopt emerging technology safely while delivering meaningful outcomes for customers, colleagues and the business.

A bit about the job

As Head of GenAI Architecture, you'll define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy for Generative AI, Agentic AI and emerging AI technologies, ensuring Aviva adopts these capabilities safely, responsibly and at scale. You'll establish the long-term vision, technology roadmaps, architectural standards and governance frameworks that enable innovation while maintaining security, resilience, compliance and responsible AI practices.

Working across the organisation, you'll partner with senior technology, data, security, risk and business leaders to identify opportunities where AI can deliver meaningful customer, colleague and commercial outcomes. You'll provide architectural leadership across areas such as enterprise AI platforms, large language models, AI orchestration, agentic systems and emerging technologies, helping to turn experimentation into scalable, reusable business capabilities. You'll also shape how AI integrates with Aviva's wider technology, data and cloud ecosystem, ensuring solutions are built on trusted foundations and aligned to our long-term strategic objectives.

You’ll monitor developments across the rapidly evolving AI landscape, assess new technologies and help guide investment decisions that will influence Aviva's future direction. Alongside leading a high-performing AI architecture capability, you'll mentor and develop architecture talent, create reusable patterns and best practices, and help build the organisational capability needed to accelerate AI adoption across the business. Through your leadership, you'll play a critical role in helping Aviva unlock the full potential of AI while delivering better outcomes for our customers, colleagues and communities.

Skills and experience we're looking for

• Significant experience leading enterprise architecture strategy within a large and complex organisation, with a proven track record of defining technology roadmaps and delivering large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Generative AI and emerging AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs), enterprise AI platforms and modern AI architecture patterns, with the ability to translate innovation into scalable business outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience advising executive leaders and communicating complex technical concepts in clear, business-focused language.
• A strong understanding of security, privacy, governance, resilience and risk management, ideally gained within a highly regulated environment such as financial services, insurance or banking.
• Experience building and developing high-performing architecture teams and communities of practice. Knowledge of Responsible AI frameworks, AI governance models and enterprise cloud or data platforms would be advantageous.

Whatyou'llget for this role:

• Startingsalary London: Circa £150k / Regional: Circa 130k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 25% - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.
• 29 daysholidayplus bank holidays,and you can choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefitto help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further -Up to 40%discountonAviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through ourMatching Share Planand share in the success of Aviva with ourSave As You Earnscheme
• Brilliantlysupportive policiesincluding parentalandcarer’s leave
• Flexible benefitsto suit you, includingsustainability optionssuch as cycle to work
• Make a difference,be part of our Aviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We'reinclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if youdon’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 -spendingatleast50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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