Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

12 Months Fixed-Term Contract

Starting Salary: c. £65,000 (Depending on skills and experience)

Locations: Norwich, Eastleigh and York

This is a great role for someone who is an experienced infrastructure and cloud delivery professional who thrives on leading complex, multi‑stream projects. Someone who enjoys driving clarity, structure and quality across cloud migration, platform modernisation and deployment initiatives. This role will suit you if you have strong experience delivering AWS cloud migrations and hybrid cloud programmes and you’re ready to take ownership of large‑scale, business‑critical change.

A bit about the job:

This role exists at the heart of our infrastructure and cloud transformation activity, ensuring projects are delivered consistently, efficiently, and to high quality. You’ll join a collaborative engineering and delivery community responsible for modernising Aviva’s platforms, migrating workloads to the cloud, and supporting major organisational and technical change.

You’ll lead end‑to‑end delivery of multiple projects — from shaping scope and schedules to managing suppliers, risks, budgets, and stakeholder expectations. Your work will directly support Aviva’s strategy, enabling secure, scalable, modern infrastructure capabilities for the future.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Proven experience delivering cloud and infrastructure programmes, including data centre and application migrations
• A strong track record leading AWS cloud migration projects.
• Solid understanding of traditional infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, virtualisation) and good working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), including identity, security and networking concepts.
• Excellent organisational and planning skills with experience managing scope, timelines, risks, resources, and dependencies across multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑engagement skills, with confidence working across technical teams, suppliers, and senior leaders.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary c. £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com