Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: London

Salary: Circa £50k

Aviva Zero is a personal lines insurer with a bold ambition: to be the best in the UK market. Headquartered in London, we combine the speed, ownership and experimental mindset of a start‑up with the deep expertise and financial strength of Aviva.

We’ve built a strong engineering culture where small, autonomous teams deliver high‑impact work quickly. If you enjoy solving real problems, owning outcomes end‑to‑end, and seeing the direct impact of your work, you’ll feel at home here.

The Role

You’ll join our Data Engineering team, responsible for building and evolving the data platform that powers insight across Aviva Zero. Our data consumers are not looking for basic dashboards — they’re analysts, actuaries and data scientists using high‑quality data to make decisions that directly impact our customers and our business.

You’ll work alongside application and data engineering teams to help ingest data from our modern AWS platform into Snowflake, learning how raw data is transformed using dbt into trusted datasets used by analysts, actuaries and data scientists. You’ll be involved throughout the delivery lifecycle, from early discovery through to production, developing your SQL and Python skills and gaining hands‑on experience with tools like Terraform, AWS CDK and GitHub Actions. With support from the team, you’ll contribute to good engineering practices such as testing, monitoring and observability using tools like CloudWatch, helping ensure our data platform is reliable, scalable and delivers real value to the business.

This is an ideal role for someone earlier in their data career, with strong foundations and big ambitions to grow in a modern, cloud‑first environment.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong SQL skills, including working confidently with complex data models
• Experience deploying and monitoring workloads on a cloud platform (ideally AWS)
• Experience with, or exposure to, a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred)
• Python fundamentals and familiarity with common data tooling such as Pandas, PySpark or Airflow
• Bonus experience or strong interest in dbt, analytics engineering, infrastructure as code (Terraform/CDK), Airflow/MWAA, and data testing or observability practices

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.  

• Starting salary circa £50,000 (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 
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it 
• 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 our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others 
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools 

Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 

Aviva is for everyone: 

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. 

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. 

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here 

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on 07795207964 or send an email to chloe.nettley@aviva.com