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What the day will look like
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This role will provide the candidate an opportunity to work as part of a global Solutions Architecture group spanning multiple Agile Product Delivery teams. This specific role will align to Document Management, being responsible for the architecture of this critical component of our ecosystem. Document Management includes the delivery management of document templates, the generation of documents, storage and indexing, search and retrieval, all delivered through seamless UI and API interfaces integrated with a third party document storage solution. Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Early assessment of new requirements, defining the impact across products within our ecosystem, documenting solution designs, estimating and planning the future state of our system landscape.
- Contributing to Agile Planning meetings to groom requirements and defining features down to user story level to successfully modernize, enhance and scale the solutions in place.
- Attending Agile Scrums meetings to groom requirements, unblock engineering roles as they deliver on features within their respective product team sprints.
- Quality oversight of delivery by developers in line with engineering standards, ensuring teams are equipped with the tools, access and training to perform successfully within their product team.
- Building up the architecture practice engineering know-how within an Aon context – adopting and extending SDLC and DevSecOps standards across Aon.
- Engaging product owners, scrum masters and project managers to ensure successful and smooth delivery day-to-day.
- Serve as a point of technical escalation for dev teams and address technical issues as they arise.
- Taking personal responsibility for architecture quality across Agile product teams, demonstrated by robust solutions.
How this opportunity is different
Aon is investing in it’s ecosystem of products and capabilities like never before. This role will give the chosen candidate a unique perspective to shape the architecture practice as part of our product-oriented deliver model.
Skills and experience that will lead to success
- 5+ years experience in application development, with at least 2 years within a pure architecture role.
- Strong understanding of architecture development methodologies and how to derive and communicate solutions from requirements.
- Experience in Visual Paradigm or similar architecture modelling tools.
- Experience in design APIs and specifying API contracts (swagger V3 Open API) aligning to data standards.
- Azure cloud experience – IaaS and PaaS including containerization, serverless, unstructured data processing etc.
- Prior development experience in Javascript web frameworks (React, Angular, similar), C# .NET, Database Design & scripting.
- Knowledge of IBM FileNet and Oracle BI or similar document storage and template definition solutions is desirable.
- Good Agile knowledge – SCRUM, Kanban and other practices, with experience in embedding architecture into Agile planning.
- Successful influencer across different teams and cultures
- College degree in IT-related field
How we support our colleagues
In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!
Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.
Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.
We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com
