Principal Platform Engineer - Automation Platforms

Principal Platform Engineer - Automation Platforms

Location: Norwich

Salary: £70000 - £90000

This is a great job for someone who loves solving complex technical challenges and shaping the future of automation at scale.

Are you someone who enjoys setting technical direction, mentoring others, and driving excellence across engineering communities?

Do you love to work at the intersection of architecture, reliability, and innovation—while influencing how an entire organisation builds modern automation solutions?

This role would suit someone with deep hands-on expertise in low-code and automation platforms, such as Appian, Tungsten Total Agility and Power Platform.

You might be an experienced Senior/Lead Designer, Staff Engineer or Architect who is ready for a step up into a strategic, organisation-wide technical leadership role.

If you enjoy bringing clarity to complex problems and setting the bar for engineering quality, this could be the perfect next move.

A bit about the job

As our Principal Engineer for Automation, you'll be Aviva’s technical authority across key platforms, including Appian, Tungsten (IDP) and Power Platform.

You’ll define the architectural patterns, engineering guardrails and quality standards that ensure we deliver secure, scalable and future-ready automation solutions.

You’ll join a collaborative engineering community focused on modernising how we build automation, improving performance and reliability, and uplifting technical capability across teams and suppliers.

You’ll take ownership of the most complex engineering challenges, shape our platform roadmaps, and directly influence how automation supports Aviva’s long-term technology strategy.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Expert-level Appian engineering and architecture knowledge, with strong understanding of records/data fabric, CDTs, interfaces, process models and integrations.

• Strong experience in IDP/Tungsten engineering, including document classification, extraction accuracy tuning, and exception-handling pipelines.

• Demonstrated ability to solve high-impact technical problems across distributed automation systems, including performance, capacity, and HA/DR considerations.

• Proven experience influencing technical direction, coaching engineers, and driving consistency in engineering practices across teams or suppliers.

• Strong problem-solving, communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to explain complex topics in a clear, outcome-focused way.

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: £70,000 to £90,000 (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, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days    

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it    

• 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 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’d 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 at least 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 Kirthi a call on +447387534297 or send an email to kirthi.kanikireddy@aviva.com