Solution Architect

Aviva; Bristol; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10% opportunity

Pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Medical Benefit

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn

Flexible benefits

Aviva Communities volunteering days

Job summary

Aviva is seeking a Solutions Architect to design scalable, secure, and reusable solutions across enterprise platforms and cloud environments (AWS/Azure). The role collaborates with enterprise architects, platform teams, and delivery squads to ensure alignment with strategy, governance, and security, while driving reuse and simplification across the technology estate.

Key responsibilities include defining solution patterns, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring architecture stays aligned with

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing scalable, secure, and reusable end-to-end solutions across enterprise platforms and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
• Ability to align solution designs with enterprise strategy and platform roadmaps to drive reuse and simplification.
• Strong understanding of enabling platforms including integration, automation, AI/GenAI, identity, content management, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and reusable end-to-end solutions across platforms and cloud environments.
• Define solution patterns and guide delivery teams while ensuring governance and security.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, platform teams, and delivery squads to maintain alignment and reuse.
• Balance strategic direction with practical implementation across infrastructure and user-facing services.

Skills

Scalable end-to-end solutions

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Enterprise architecture alignment

Security-by-design

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Integration tooling

Automation tooling

AI/GenAI tooling

Identity management tooling

Content management tooling

Developer tooling

Job description

Solutions Architect

Location: Norwich, Bristol, York, or Perth

Salary: Circa 60k

Do you thrive on designing scalable, reusable technology solutions that enable teams across the enterprise? This is an exciting opportunity to shape how core platforms and enabling services are used to accelerate delivery. If you are passionate about aligning solution architecture with business and technology strategy while reducing complexity and duplication, this role is for you.

A bit about the job:

As a Solution Architect within Technical and Enabling Services, you will play a key role in designing and shaping solutions across shared technology platforms and capabilities. This includes areas such as integration, automation, AI, document and content management, identity, networks, end user compute, and developer tooling.

You will work closely with enterprise architects, platform teams, and delivery squads to ensure solutions are aligned to strategic direction, make effective use of existing capabilities, and are designed for reuse, scalability, and security.

Your role will involve defining solution patterns, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring we maximise value from our enabling platforms while maintaining strong governance, security, and architectural alignment across infrastructure, platforms, and user-facing services.

Key skill and experience we are looking for

• Proven experience designing scalable, secure, and reusable end-to-end solutions across enterprise platforms and cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure).
• Ability to align solution designs with enterprise strategy, architecture principles, and platform roadmaps, driving reuse and simplification across the technology estate.
• Strong understanding of enabling platforms including integration, automation, AI/GenAI, identity, content management, and developer tooling.
• Security-by-design mindset, with experience embedding security, risk, governance, and regulatory requirements into technology solutions.
• Skilled learner, communicator and influencer, able to navigate ambiguity, challenge constructively, and engage effectively with delivery teams, platform owners, vendors, and senior stakeholders

Whatyou'llget 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 promiseisby investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Startingsalary Circa £60k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 10% – 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 ourAviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We'reinclusive andwelcome 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 –spendingat least50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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