Lead AI Developer

Lead AI Developer

Salary: National £45,000 - £55,000

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and its real-world impact? As part of our GenAI team, you’ll play a key role in delivering, deploying, and monitoring AI and GenAI solutions that support our Personal Lines and Transformation teams. You’ll lead on developing innovative GenAI applications aligned with our strategy – delivering insights that will transform how we operate today.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading GenAI delivery team within General Insurance and help shape the future of intelligent solutions at Aviva. If you’re ready to make a difference and work on projects that are market leading, we’d love to hear from you!

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Are interested in or already working with the latest GenAI practices, including prompt engineering and RAG systems on Azure, with an understanding of Agentic AI – Familiarity of AgentCore would be a big benefit.
• Have software engineering skills such as developing and deploying web-based applications using frameworks such as FastAPI, backend APIs, scalable architecture design. And knowledgeable about containerisation and deployment through DevOps pipelines.
• Ability to support and develop team members while acting as a technical expert, openly sharing ideas, perspectives, and constructive opinions to drive better technical and product outcomes.
• A proactive and solutions‑focused mindset, acting as a driving force for innovation while translating stakeholder requirements into effective GenAI solutions.

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 £45,000 - £55,000 for National based (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

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 around 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 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