Data Management Lead - C&M Kayak

Data Management Lead - C&M Kayak (12 Month Secondment)

Salary: circa £100,000

Locations: Bristol/ Norwich/ York

You will lead data management for the C&M data landscape supporting the Direct Line integration, ensuring that the Direct Line data meets Group standards, regulatory expectations, and business needs.

Your role is pivotal to:

• Embedding Group Data Management capabilities (metadata, data quality, access management, classification etc.) into the new data flows.
• Ensuring Direct Line data is accurate, well‑controlled, well‑catalogued and ready for downstream use across C&M.
• Supporting Aviva’s wider ambition to uplift enterprise data management, building repeatable, sustainable practices that continue beyond the programme.

This is a highly collaborative role, working across C&M, Group Data, Technology, Programme teams, and Direct Line SME

A bit about the job:

The role embeds strong data management into the integration of Direct Line data—ensuring new data products, flows and models meet Group standards, have clear metadata and ownership, and are accurate, complete and trusted. It drives adoption of enterprise data capabilities across the C&M landscape, leading data quality assessments, resolving issues and uplifting definitional clarity for data moving onto Aviva platforms.

It also ensures compliance with Group standards, GDPR and regulatory obligations, while strengthening access and usage controls for new data assets. The role supports teams in adopting good data management practices and represents C&M in River/Kayak governance forums, working closely with technical, business and Group data teams.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong knowledge of data management principles and the full data lifecycle, with experience embedding these practices into complex change programmes, including integration and migration activity.
• Hands‑on experience across multiple data management disciplines (e.g., Metadata Management, Data Quality, Data Access, Master & Reference Data, Classification).
• Familiarity with Group-level frameworks such as DAMA, CMMI and certified data management credentials (e.g., CDMP) are highly beneficial.
• Experience with data governance and data management tooling such as Collibra, BigID, Immuta or similar; experience with Snowflake/cloud platforms desirable.
• A proactive, structured leader who simplifies data, influences decisions, and treats data as a strategic asset.

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 circa £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 12% (E grade) 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’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 +44 7353 138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com