Engineering Lead, Digital Platforms

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.Aviva has an excellent opportunity for an Engineering Lead on our Digital Platforms!We need a Senior Software Engineer & Architect to lead our Digital team. You will ensure high-quality software design and implementation and promote continuous improvement among developers.Are you an experienced Software Architect or Engineering Lead looking for the next career move? Join us and lead, motivate, and guide our team of digital engineers while working on products used by hundreds of thousands of Canadians.What you'll doLead Technical Design: Own the overall technical design of one or more digital platforms, ensuring they meet high standards of quality, security, performance and scalability.Hands-On Development: Lead by example by writing reference code and pair programming with the development team. Encourage team members to adopt a mentality of continuous improvement and taking ownership, while promoting the use of DRY principles, refactoring strategies, and test-driven techniques.Technical Roadmap: Partner with our Digital Product Managers to develop and execute the technical roadmap of the platform, ensuring alignment with business goals. Collaboration: Work closely with senior developers, Application Security, and Architecture teams to plan, design, develop, test, and implement solutions.Project Planning: Plan the implementation of complex applications with multiple components.Balanced Development: Be accountable for maintaining a balanced development velocity.Security Practices: Promote secure development practices and security awareness within the development team - with a shift-left focus.Documentation: Ensure adequate documentation of solutions for operational acceptance and future development.What you'll bringTechnical Expertise: Senior object-oriented developer/architect with significant experience in Java and JavaScript.Architectural Knowledge: Experience in Microservices architecture, Domain Driven Design, and API Design.Approach to Development: Demonstrable approach to development that prioritizes testing and familiarity with test engineering.Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate complex technical designs to both senior leaders and software development teams.Engineering Best Practices: Knowledge of modern build processes, CI/CD, and application pipelines is required.Business Acumen: Commercial acumen to support business cases and inform key design decisions.Leadership Experience: Experienced in a technical leadership role in Agile projects.Self-Motivation: Self-starter and independent worker able to coordinate their time across multiple workstreams and collaborators.Container management: Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).What you’ll get The salary band for this position ranges from $113,500 to $210,900. Please note that individual salary is determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills and experience, as well as internal equity.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.We’ll support your professional development education.Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year.Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity, and inclusion.Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health.Hybrid flexible work model.Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is a new position which has been posted both internally & externally.Aviva Canada has an accommodation process in place to provide accommodations for employees with disabilities. If upon commencement of employment you require a specific accommodation because of a disability, please contact your Talent Acquisition Partner so that an appropriate accommodation can be arranged. This process applies throughout your career with Aviva Canada.SummaryLocation: Markham; TorontoType: