Data Engineering Specialist

Senior Data Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000

This is a great job for someone who’s ready to step into a leadership role or already leading and looking to make a bigger impact. If you’re passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and GenAI—and want to help shape how Aviva connects with its customers—we’d love to hear from you.

A bit about the job:

This role sits within the Single View of Customer (SVOC) platform team, part of Aviva’s Customer Data Platforms (CDP). The team builds and manages unified customer data products that support analytics, marketing, servicing, and operations.

As Lead Snowflake Engineer, you’ll drive engineering delivery and continuous improvement across the platform. You’ll help us transform how we engage with our customers—enhancing contact ability, personalisation, and overall experience. You’ll also play a key role in building internal capability in Snowflake and DBT, helping us reduce reliance on external consultants and unlock future strategic projects.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Broad expertise in software/data engineering, including cloud‑native architectures, serverless data pipelines, and translating business needs into scalable, reusable data platform solutions.
• Strong technical leadership, including mentoring, stakeholder management, and guiding end‑to‑end delivery across the change lifecycle.
• Advanced Snowflake capabilities, including Snowpark, dynamic tables, Snowpipe streaming, Cortex AI, UDFs, and reusable frameworks, plus strong experience with Redshift, Postgres, and other DBMS platforms.
• Proficiency in Python and Airflow, with strengths in automation, data quality validation, testing, and maintaining reliable/optimized data pipeline infrastructure.
• Cloud cost optimisation & monitoring, including engineering pipelines and dashboards to analyse, manage, and optimise cloud spend.

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.

• Salary £60,000 - £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 our Aviva Communities and 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:

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 around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com