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.

The purpose of the Data Science Architect role is to:

• Define end-to-end solutions for IT change primarily focused on the data domain.

• Create designs that are fit for purpose from a functional, non-functional, service, and security point of view.

• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to Aviva’s IT Strategy

• Align with standards, design approaches and governance

Come join our team!

What you'll do:

• Create data solutions and design for projects to meet Aviva’s standards for technology and ensure they meet architecture principle of availability, security, resilience, and performance.

• Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.

• Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree to trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.

• Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.

• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.

• Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.

• Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.

• Keep up with technological developments and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.

• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of data and analytical solutions.

• Support defining the architecture practices and standards and implementing them in the project solutions.

• Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines.

• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support partner group for service, security, architecture, and engineering.

• Peer reviews the design artefacts of others.

• Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required.

• Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across Aviva Group leading on or participating in initiatives to improve Aviva’s approach to design.

• Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise.

• Call out problems according to guidelines.

• Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process, and other guidelines.

• Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience in data and analytics architecture design and implementation.

• Experience in Snowflake, Snowpark and another Snowflake ecosystem.

• Strong knowledge of data lifecycle mgmt., data retention, data modelling and working knowledge of cloud computing, and modern development practices.

• Experience in data science platform to enable model development, MLOps, Cloudera, AWS

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL.

• Experience with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically.

• Solid understanding of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (mainly agile).

• Strong technical experience. This maybe broad experience with the ability to apply it across a variety of customer and business scenarios.

• The role holder must care about technology and how to exploit it for the benefit of our customers.

• Exposure to following considered an advantage: Snowflake, AWS, Cloudera, Informatica tools.

• Financial acumen to support development of cases and to inform key design decisions.

• Good communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.

• Strong personal impact and influence

• Good partner and relationship management and leadership skills.

What you'll get:

• The salary band for this position ranges from $107,700 to $200,100. 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.