Solutions Architect Full Time

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

Specifically within Commercial Risk Solutions we offer risk advisory, risk transfer and structured solutions that help organisations and individuals identify, quantify and manage their risk exposure through insurance.

Responsibilities Of This Role

This role will provide the candidate an opportunity to work as part of a global Solutions Architecture group spanning multiple Agile Product Delivery teams. Specifically, this role is focussed on our new global Claims Management product – delivering a web-based solution that supports global claims handling teams to manage claims for commercial clients, from notification of loss through to settlement including business intelligence and client advocacy. The solution will be built on an industry-leading 3rd party low-code platform and integrated via domain APIs into our Commercial Risk ecosystem. The role will also be responsible for defining the appropriate architecture and overseeing the delivery from an technical architectural perspective.

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, help 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, Engineering and Project Managers to ensure successful and smooth delivery day-to-day.
• Serving as a point of technical escalation for Agile teams, addressing 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 has transitioned to a product-oriented model and is investing in capabilities like never before. This role will give the chosen candidate a unique opportunity to shape the architecture for our Commercial Risk Ecosystem to drive significant revenue and efficiency opportunities across all countries where Aon operates.

Skills And Experience That Will Lead To Success

• 5-10 years experience in similar solutions architecture role, with specific focus on building secure enterprise-grade workflow solutions.
• Experience in low-code platforms such as Appian is ideal. Alternatively experience may be in similar e.g. Pega, UiPath, Power Automate.
• Experience in commercial insurance brokerage is ideal, claims management specifically.
• Strong experience in API architecture and design incl. REST swagger definitions for endpoint/payload design, API security, monitoring and management etc.
• Experience architecting domain APIs to run on Azure cloud incl. Azure APIm, Azure Functions, container-based applications.
• Some experience in data mapping and analysis, interface specifications and data job design.
• Experience with relational databases, warehousing and lake-house technology – SQL Server, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Blob Storage / AWS S3.
• Strong Agile knowledge – Scrum, Kanban, TDD and other practices. Certification desirable.
• College degree in IT-related discipline.

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

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