Senior Digital Workplace Architect

This position sits within ET Digital Workplace Services and focuses on overseeing Aegon's strategic technical partnerships that support desktop services across the organisation. The Senior Digital Workplace Architect is responsible for evolving the Desktop Technology Strategy, ensuring technologies and vendor solutions are aligned, efficient, and delivering measurable value. The role combines strategic direction with hands-on expertise, working closely with service owners, technical teams, and architecture functions to enhance service performance, challenge existing approaches, and drive continuous improvement across the digital workplace environment.,

• Responsible for maintaining Enterprise Technology's Desktop Technology Strategy, ensuring that corresponding strategic goals are planned, advanced and achieved, and that they deliver business value.
• Provides direction for the vendor desktop strategy to ensure those technologies are cohesive and in sync
• Provide hands on technology expertise to current desktop systems
• Strengthens alignment by participating in in strategic and operational planning activities involving GTS service owners and top technical staff.
• Provides consulting on operational processes to maintain strategic alignment and minimise customer impact.
• Provides consulting for architecture team in reviewing strategic technologies and solution design.
• Constantly engage in challenging the status-quo and bringing in more value to the organisation through in-house/external technology solutions
• Conducts research for IT projects that are strategic in nature.
• Assess various technologies, products, and services related to the management of performance-based information
  
  Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical strategy
• Broad knowledge across key technology disciplines, including web, database, data centre, network, and workforce computing technologies
• Deep expertise in modern endpoint management ecosystems such as SCCM, Intune, and automated application delivery frameworks, with the ability to drive global standardisation and modernisation
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and the major vendors providing cloud services
• Experience modernising legacy code and automations using SQL, Visual Studio, and GitHub (branching, pull requests, CI), creating maintainable and testable solutions
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based virtual desktop platforms, including Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), AWS WorkSpaces, Citrix, and Nerdio, across deployment, scaling, image management, security, and cost optimisation
• Experience using ServiceNow (SNOW) and ITSM processes, including automated PC provisioning pipelines, Hardware and Software Asset Management, full asset lifecycle workflows, and cost/billing reconciliation
  
  Enterprise Technology is Aegon's global IT partner. We provide dedicated support to Transamerica and we bring all Aegon's business units together through the use of technology. We provide the backbone - the infrastructure - for how everything works. We're creating the company's AI environment, building a flexible 'cloud experience' for internal hosting services, designing frameworks for data governance and management, and ensuring the security and stability the company's technology. In short, we enable the business units to move more quickly and deliver to our clients in the best possible way. Whether customers are interested in insurance products or annuities or financial services, we're here to ensure they don't have to worry whether their information is safe.
Across 6 locations, there are over 1,000 employees in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units in the world. Our global teams are comprised of experts in the areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure services, data & analytics, risk & controls, procurement, program management, and architecture. With the breadth of functions within Enterprise Technology, individuals can pursue a wide variety of careers, and we have a focus on supporting employees' development. In particular, our Talent Marketplace enables colleagues to take on gigs to broaden their experience and try out different responsibilities, which can be extremely rewarding. The most important quality in the people who join us is curiosity. A lot of what we do is problem solving, requiring colleagues to take what they know and apply it to new situations. We have many mature processes, but we're always looking for opportunities to improve, so we want people who are naturally inquisitive and confident enough to challenge the way we do things.

Salary: A competitive salary from £52,720-£79,080 depending on the experience you can bring,
• We're serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we'll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we'll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that's 7% from you and 13% from us).
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments. To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site. If you're ready to bring your expertise, shape the future of our technology landscape, and grow in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment - we'd love to hear from you. The legal bits We'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references. Equal Opportunity Employer