Senior Software Engineer

We’re looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Life Platform Team. You’ll help shape and manage the environments that support our agile delivery across multiple teams. This role is key to ensuring smooth releases, technical excellence, and operational stability. You’ll work closely with engineers, testers, and product owners to coordinate deployments and drive improvements. It’s a great opportunity to lead, mentor, and make a real impact in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. 

Duties & Responsibilities 

• Define and maintain environment strategy and provisioning roadmap 
  You’ll shape the future of our development environments, working with DevOps and platform engineers to provision, optimise, and retire environments using modern infrastructure-as-code tools. 

• Coordinate releases across development, test, and production environments 
  You’ll manage the release calendar, ensuring smooth and timely deployments that align with agile sprint and programme increment schedules. 

• Track and manage technical dependencies and risks 
  You’ll map out cross-team dependencies, helping to identify and resolve potential blockers early to keep delivery on track. 

• Lead change governance and ensure audit compliance 
  You’ll play a key role in business readiness, leading go/no-go meetings, maintaining audit trails, and surfacing environment-related risks proactively. 

• Monitor environment health and publish regular status updates 
  You’ll provide real-time visibility into environment performance and usage, using tools like SolarWinds to keep stakeholders informed and confident. 

Skills & Experiences 

• Strong background in software development, systems analysis or DevOps 

• Extensive experience with Java technologies and frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate, Maven, etc.) 

• Experience with scaled agile frameworks (SAFe®, DAD, LeSS, etc.) 

• Hands-on with CI/CD, Git, and modern deployment practices 

• Skilled in tools like Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Jenkins 

• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management 

What will you get for this role? 

• Competitive market-leading salary depending on skills and experience 

• Generous pension (up to 14% employer match) 

• Annual bonus and pay review 

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, with buy/sell options 

• Free car parking 

• Health & dental insurance contributions after six months 

• Share schemes and profit share options 

• Cycle to Work and TaxSaver Travel schemes 

• Family-friendly leave policies 

• Up to 40% discount on Aviva products for you and your loved ones 

• Employee Assistance Programme and volunteering days 

• Support for professional qualifications and career progression 

Aviva is for Everyone 

Our 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. Our approach helps to ensure that Aviva is a place which values difference and provides equal opportunities for all. 

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. 

We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying, please contact Saidhbh.goonan1@aviva.com