Lead Data Architect

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Data Architect to lead the data architecture function for Aviva with a vision of becoming a data driven and AI enabled organisation. As a lead data architect, the role involves ensuring architecture governance for end-to-end data delivery across the lines of business.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the enterprise data roadmap including current, target and transition states in line with the Data & AI strategy.
• Maintain the market solution architecture designs and playbooks for adoption of modern data warehousing tech like Snowflake and strategic data platform & analytics capabilities.
• Ensure successful delivery of market initiatives working alongside the solution architects and data architects from the programme.
• Own the target state data & analytics platforms architecture and transition states from current state, per LoB. Ensure supporting identification and quantification of pain-points for the latter, and overall roadmap acceptance and alignment with the business teams.
• Steer and quantifying the value of data platforms transformation. Shape overall data roadmaps, co-created with domain SMEs from the business, to give an overall and coherent view across data in Aviva.

Skills & Experience:

• Data architecture expertise with rich experience in delivering large scale data transformation programmes.
• Experience in delivering Snowflake as an enterprise capability & deep knowledge of its ecosystem.
• Experience in key data architecture functions across ingestion, transformation, visualisation, metadata management leveraging tools like Snowflake, AWS services, dbtCloud, Collibra.
• Experience in delivering data products aligned to business requirements and aligned to the data mesh principles in the modern data warehousing paradigm.
• Practically leading successful technical adoption of modern data warehousing capability into an enterprise organisation.
• Strong senior stakeholder communicator, with experience in executive communication.
   

What will you get for this role?

• Competitive market leading salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Generous pension (employee contribution matching of up to 14% if you contribute 8%)
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review.
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Free car parking
• Generous Health & dental insurance contributions after six months
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme and Approved Profit Share Scheme
• Cycle to Work benefit scheme.
• TaxSaver Travel Scheme
• Family friendly parent’s (matching paternity and maternity leave) and carer’s leave.
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products plus discounts for Friends and Family
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Volunteering days
• Professional qualification support and transparent career progression plans

Aviva is for Everyone

Our diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives are shaping an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of age, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or those with other caring responsibilities. Our approach helps to ensure that Aviva is a place which values difference and provides equal opportunities for all.

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.

We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying, please contact megan.crabbe@aviva.com