Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer – circa £70,000

We’re looking for a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer to provide technical leadership across data engineering, delivery execution and project governance. This role ensures development standards are upheld while delivering high‑quality, reliable solutions on time and within budget. It’s suited to someone highly organised, confident and an excellent communicator, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels across Development and IT Change.

About the Role

As Lead Data Engineer, you’ll interpret detailed technical requirements and deliverables across multiple projects, acting as a subject‑matter expert in data‑engineering technologies and contributing to effective solution design. You’ll mentor, support and guide developers to help them grow and deliver successfully, while balancing your involvement across various initiatives to provide direction, technical leadership and oversight wherever it’s needed.

Skills & Experience

• Strong consultancy background across ETL/ELT, data warehousing and big‑data solutions, with hands‑on delivery experience and proven leadership/mentoring in an onshore–offshore model.
• Proficiency with ETL tools and cloud data services (AWS preferred — e.g., Glue; with exposure to Azure Data Factory), plus experience implementing CI/CD for data; knowledge of Informatica tools is beneficial.
• Experience working with major databases such as Postgres, Redshift, Oracle, SQL Server or Snowflake, along with strong SQL capability and working knowledge of Python/PySpark.
• Ability to synthesise complex business and technical inputs into practical, scalable data‑engineering patterns including ETL/ELT pipelines, event‑driven ingestion and data‑quality frameworks.
• Confidence in constructively challenging solution approaches to improve performance, security and reliability.

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 £70,000 (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’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