Frontend Technologies Architect
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About the Role
Aviva is seeking an experienced Frontend Technologies Architect to define scalable, secure, and modern architecture for web, mobile, and AI-enabled digital products. You will partner with cross-functional teams to turn strategic goals into practical technology solutions.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Understand business goals and translate them into clear digital product architecture and technology roadmaps.
- Define frontend and digital solution architectures that are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable.
- Support modernization initiatives that reduce technical debt, close architecture gaps, and enable new digital capabilities.
- Work with product and delivery teams to refine backlogs, assess feasibility, and guide implementation decisions.
- Communicate architecture decisions, trade offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.
- Identify delivery and architecture risks, recommend practical mitigations, and support continuous improvement.
- Stay current with digital, web, mobile, cloud, and AI enabled technologies, platforms, and tools.
- Apply architecture standards and review practices to support quality, security, and compliance.
- Create and review design artifacts that support engineering, security, service, and delivery needs.
- Mentor and coach team members, encouraging collaboration, technical growth, and consistent design practices.
- Contribute to Aviva’s architecture community by sharing knowledge and improving design practices.
- Build strong relationships with product managers, engineers, platform specialists, architects, and delivery partners.
Requirements
- Strong experience with digital application and web architecture
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as React and Angular
- Experience with mobile frameworks such as React Native
- Experience with UX research and design tools such as Figma
- Experience with web asset management platforms such as Adobe
- Experience with digital data and analytics platforms (Google and Adobe)
- Knowledge of web application security, CDN/edge technologies, and performance optimization
- Experience integrating AI services into digital products
- Experience with web application observability and end user monitoring
- Strong understanding of end to end project delivery, including Agile delivery methods
- Clear communication skills with ability to guide technical and non technical audiences
- Leadership presence and ability to influence outcomes
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are looking for an experienced Frontend Technologies Architect to help shape the future of Aviva’s customer and broker digital experiences.
- In this role, you will define scalable, secure, and modern architecture for web, mobile, and AI enabled digital products.
- This role supports customer facing and broker facing digital channels, including web, mobile, and AI enabled experiences.
What you'll do Solution Architecture and Delivery
- Understand business goals and translate them into clear digital product architecture and technology roadmaps.
- Define frontend and digital solution architectures that are scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable.
- Support modernization initiatives that reduce technical debt, close architecture gaps, and enable new digital capabilities.
- Work with product and delivery teams to refine backlogs, assess feasibility, and guide implementation decisions.
- Communicate architecture decisions, trade offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.
- Identify delivery and architecture risks, recommend practical mitigations, and support continuous improvement after implementation.
Technical Leadership
- Stay current with digital, web, mobile, cloud, and AI enabled technologies, platforms, and tools.
- Apply architecture standards and review practices to support quality, security, and compliance.
- Create and review design artifacts that support engineering, security, service, and delivery needs.
- Mentor and coach team members, encouraging collaboration, technical growth, and consistent design practices.
Architecture Community
- Contribute to Aviva’s architecture community by sharing knowledge and improving design practices.
- Build your technical expertise and help evaluate emerging technology trends that could benefit Aviva and its customers.
Problem Solving and Change Leadership
- Use technical expertise to solve complex design and delivery challenges.
- Recommend practical solutions that align with architecture principles, standards, and delivery needs.
- Adapt to changing priorities and influence design decisions as business needs evolve.
Collaboration and External Engagement
- Build strong relationships with product managers, engineers, platform specialists, architects, and delivery partners.
- Engage with suppliers and technology partners to stay informed on relevant trends, capabilities, and market developments.
What you'll bring Digital, Web, and Frontend Technologies
- Strong experience with digital application and web architecture.
- Frontend frameworks such as React and Angular.
- Mobile frameworks such as React Native.
- UX research and design tools such as Figma.
- Web asset management platforms such as Adobe.
- Digital data and analytics platforms, including Google and Adobe solutions.
- Web application security, CDN/edge technologies, and performance optimization.
- Experience integrating AI services into digital products.
- Web application observability and end user monitoring.
Additional Experience That Would Be an Asset
- Insurance industry experience, including Guidewire.
- API and event technologies such as REST, GraphQL, Pub/Sub, and WebSockets.
- Backend frameworks, preferably Java and Node.js.
- Modern application architecture, including domain focussed design, microservices, and micro apps.
- Cloud computing and modern software development practices.
- Containerization and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes.
- Public cloud certification, preferably AWS.
Project and Technical Leadership
- Strong understanding of end to end project delivery, including Agile delivery methods.
- Broad technical knowledge with the ability to apply solutions across different customer and business scenarios.
- A practical innovation approach committed to customer and business value.
- Financial awareness to support strategic recommendations and architecture decisions.
- Ability to balance long term strategy with near term delivery priorities.
What you’ll get
- Salary band: CAD 140,000 to CAD 190,000.
- Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.
- Outstanding Career Development opportunities.
- Professional development education support.
- Competitive vacation package with option to purchase 5 extra days off per year.
- Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity, and inclusion.
- Corporate wellness programs.
- Hybrid flexible work model.
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