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In this role, you'll help shape the technical direction of a complex application landscape, ensuring consistency, alignment and high engineering standards across multiple teams and platforms.\nWorking closely with senior engineers, architects and business stakeholders, you'll drive technical decision-making, simplify complexity and support the delivery of secure, scalable solutions that meet customer and business needs. If you're passionate about modern engineering practices, influencing technical strategy and leading through expertise, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact.\nDuties & Responsibilities\n Provide technical leadership across the Life Platforms estate, setting clear direction and enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions.\n Lead technical decision-making and architectural discussions across multiple applications, ensuring alignment with engineering and business objectives.\n Collaborate with senior engineers, architects and application SMEs to drive consistency, reduce complexity and remove delivery blockers.\n Communicate technical priorities, risks and opportunities clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n Champion engineering excellence through modern development practices, continuous improvement and the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and techniques to accelerate software delivery, improve quality and reduce project turnaround times.\nSkills & Experience\n Strong experience developing enterprise applications using Java (Java 17+), Spring Boot, JPA and Hibernate, with hands-on Java development experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions.\n Proven expertise in microservices, API integration and designing scalable, resilient solutions, with significant experience implementing and governing a variety of API security patterns, including authentication, authorisation, OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), token-based security, API gateway security controls and secure API design principles.\n Experience working with relational databases, containerisation technologies and CI/CD pipelines, together with practical experience using AI-assisted development tools and techniques to improve engineering productivity, automate routine development activities and accelerate project delivery.\n Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence senior engineers and drive decisions in complex environments.\n Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business outcomes.\nWhat will you get for this role?\nThe work you do at Aviva will make a real difference to our customers. 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From competitive salaries to generous pension contributions and paid paternity leave; take a look through some of our employee benefits!\nThe expected pay range for this role will fall between €80,000 and €90,000 and salary offered will commensurate with candidate's level of skills and experience.\n A competitive market leading salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.\n Generous pension (employee contribution matching of up to 14% if you contribute 8%).\n Annual performance related bonus and pay review.\n Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.\n Generous Health & dental insurance contributions.\n Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme and Approved Profit Share Scheme.\n TaxSaver Travel Scheme.\n Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products plus discounts for Friends and Family.\n Professional qualification support and transparent career progression plans.\n Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.\n Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work .\n Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your paid volunteering days to help others.\n We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.\n We’re deeply invested in our people, our total reward package has so much to offer.\nAviva is for Everyone\nOur diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives are shaping an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of age, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or those with other caring responsibilities. 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