IT Service Continuity Planner Norwich, England
Aviva
Full Time
Norwich, England
40000 - 50000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
IT Service Continuity Planner – National Salary £40,000 - £50,000. London Salary £50,000 - £65,000.
Are you a forward thinker? Well organised and methodical? Have a passion for solving sophisticated problems and able to adapt quickly to changing scenarios? Are you confident talking to stakeholders? With a background in planning?
Then this job just may be for you! This role is key to protecting our Business by maintaining customer service and regulatory obligations as well as minimising the risk of financial impact from unexpected loss of IT services. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team to help prepare for these events!
Then this job just may be for you! This role is key to protecting our Business by maintaining customer service and regulatory obligations as well as minimising the risk of financial impact from unexpected loss of IT services. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join our team to help prepare for these events!
A bit about the job:
You will coordinate and deliver Disaster and Cyber Recovery test planning and oversee execution through close collaboration with internal and external teams. Work within our dynamic IT Service Continuity Team and across the organisation (with Application teams, Business Continuity Management, change team, IT Risk and third parties) to deliver a comprehensive and trusted regime of testing for Aviva. You will own the test schedule, and broker agreement against competing demands, constraints, and dependencies in a complex IT landscape.
The successful candidate will need to be driven, take their own initiative, positive, and to make robust and well-reasoned decisions to play a pivotal role in delivering successful testing for Aviva against our commitments. You will work flexibly to adapt to Business needs – the role will demand occasional weekend and evening work.
Aviva operates a “smart-working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, and this role can be based within Norwich or Bristol.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
- Strong planning skills; comfortable with managing a multi-faceted schedule with many moving parts. Real-world project delivery/planner skills needed, certifications valuable although not essential (DR, BCP, PMP, ITIL, Scrum master). Can balance an established cycle of planning with frequent/ad-hoc challenges.
- Demonstrably logical thinker, sound decision maker, an eye for detail and reliable output.
- Self-confident and seeking to make a real impact – hold strong communication and presentation skills, able to engage with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Enjoys working both as part of a tightly knit team and influencing stakeholders across an organisation.
- A basic and foundational understanding of IT Infrastructure is valuable – i.e., the ability to discuss failover and recovery with experts. Experience in delivering change to IT infrastructure will be beneficial. Any experience in Disaster recovery testing or even Cyber Recovery solutions would be advantageous.
What you’ll get for this role:
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- National Salary £40,000 - £50,000. London Salary £50,000 - £65,000. (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
- Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
- Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
- Make a difference, be part of ourAviva Communitiesand use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone:
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– we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.
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.
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