Aon's Reinsurance Solutions business is looking for a Senior Application Architect. As part of an industry-leading global broking platform, you will help enable and empower other development teams by establishing and evolving frameworks, patterns, core services, and developer tooling! Work at a large enterprise level dealing with a myriad of solution types varying from greenfield cloud native solutions, cloud IaaS, hybrid, on-prem, and cloud migrations. This is a hybrid work arrangement.

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.

• Develop a technical product roadmap for platforms and foundational services. Work with other product owners to ensure their roadmaps are aligned with technical goals and outcomes.
• Design, high-level application architecture, and integration of systems, and services. Provide input on technologies, tools, and patterns that will be used by product teams. Identify and build training materials that would be advantageous for the development community.
• Build or coordinate artifacts that are required in the SLDC process. Participate in architectural design collaborations with other architects and development leads.
• Recognize when a delivery team is off its intended course, not meeting architectural goals, and recommend course accurate options. Act as a go-to technical authority for products and services under Aon Reinsurance.
• Provide mentorship to development teams around overall architecture, design, and testing practices.
• Builds work items as needed in the product backlog to refactor problem areas, address technical debt, or improve performance, scalability, availability, etc.
• Works with business collaborators to find the best time to address architectural work.
• Works with the development lead and development team to ensure the architectural design is well understood and is aligned with the implementation. Works with quality lead on test strategy to validate architectural goals are met.
• Define software development standards and best practices.
• Assist in finding solutions to complex architectural and technical issues.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to modernize existing products to stay ahead of technology standards, application performance, and security initiatives.
• Be self-educating and self-motivating to stay at the forefront of technology while looking for opportunities to drive innovative business solutions. Educate and share knowledge with team members on new technology and tooling options.

• Overall 10+years of IT experience
• Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience in software engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related technical field
• Experience with designing Azure Cloud solutions (Experience with other Cloud solutions is a plus)
• Proficient with writing RESTful API's using .NET 6/7/8.
• Experience architecting and designing sophisticated and adaptable software solutions to tackle sophisticated business problems.
• Knowledge around how OWASP top ten vulnerabilities work and how to mitigate.
• Solid understanding of architectural and coding patterns.
• Good grasp of relational and NoSQL database concepts
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong time, and organization skills.
• Validated resilience and maturity in resolving process and project issues.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience working in an agile software development environment. Hands-on development to tackle challenging coding problems.

• Experience using Azure services such as AKS, App Service Plan, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Managed Identities.
• Experience with Azure services such as Data Factory, Event Hub, Event Grid, Cosmos DB
• Familiarity with OAuth2/OIDC and SAML

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 recognize 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

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $135,000 - $165,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.

This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon's annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon's discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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