Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer

Salary circa £100,000

Locations: Bristol/ Norwich

About the Role

The Principal Data Engineer - Enterprise Data plays a critical leadership role in shaping Aviva’s enterprise data foundations, ensuring data is engineered to be trusted, scalable and accessible across the organisation. The role is responsible for defining and embedding modern data engineering standards, architectures and reusable patterns that enable consistent delivery of high-quality data services.

By driving alignment across enterprise platforms, data domains and strategic programmes, this role underpins key capabilities such as analytics, AI, regulatory reporting and customer insight. It brings together deep technical expertise and strong stakeholder influence to modernise data ecosystems, improve data quality, and enable efficient, compliant and innovative use of data across Aviva.

Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in enterprise data engineering, including building scalable data pipelines, cloud-native architectures, and integration patterns (e.g. APIs, event-driven, CDC).
• Proven experience delivering modern data platforms and tooling (AWS, Kafka, Python/Java, MDM/RDM platforms, data orchestration tools) aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
• Deep understanding of data management concepts such as Operational Data Stores, Master Data Management, Reference Data, data quality frameworks and data governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across multiple teams and senior stakeholders, driving standardisation, reusability and best practice adoption.
• Strategic mindset with strong problem-solving, communication and planning skills, alongside experience working in complex, large-scale transformation programmes.

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 based (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity 12% 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