Team Context
One of the next high-performing teams we are establishing will be responsible for building solutions that re-imagine the customer experience at Aflac. We are using web & mobile technologies such as Angular, Ionic and Node to deliver core capabilities to our policyholders, and are focused on a mobile-first strategy making it easy for our customers to interact with us, changes their policy information, submit claims – all from the smartphone in their pocket. At the same time, we will be building desktop website technology that will help deliver an omni-channel experience to our policyholders, ensuring that their interactions with Aflac are as frictionless as possible. At Aflac Northern Ireland we are all about the customer experience.
The intention is for our teams to continually adapt and reinvent their skills and capabilities over time as technologies change and evolve. We will provide the right challenges and opportunities to enable your success, however we need you to bring your enthusiasm, the ability to learn quickly, and to take minimum-viable-product technology to produce industrialised solutions for the enterprise. Once you have successfully delivered robust and scalable solutions for Aflac, there will be a new technology waiting to be explored and built to scale within our organisation. We’ll be keeping things pretty fresh.
Role Context
We are looking for a Solutions Architect who will understand the vision and roadmap for the product and ensure that the technologies employed are fit for purpose, robust, scalable and enterprise ready. We want someone who is self-motivated, comfortable with a range of technologies, and passionate about developing the skills and knowledge of others. You will lead the design and architecture of the solution, and as a technical leader in the team you will be responsible for leading architecture and design discussions in collaboration with the development team and product owner. You will play a key leadership role for our Agile teams, helping to translate the needs of the business into technical deliverables, and you won’t be afraid to get your hands dirty and sit alongside our engineers to collaborate on solving challenging problems. We will provide you with extensive opportunities to learn and grow, and want you to bring creativity, ingenuity, experience, and insight into software product development, data analytics, and innovation strategies.
What you’ll be doing
What you should have
Below is an overview of the skills and experience we are looking for, but remember, don’t rule yourself out if you don’t have everything on the list – it’s your intellect and your attitude we are really after.
Essential
Desirable
So that’s us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far (pretty impressive in the era of the 280-character tweet). We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining a new tech innovation company with the agility of a start-up and the stability of a Fortune 500 U.S. company.