Platform Engineering Manager – Automation Platforms

Platform Engineering Manager – Automation Platforms

Location: Norwich

Salary: £70000 - £90000

This is a great job for someone who…

…loves bringing engineering excellence to life through automation.

Are you someone who enjoys shaping modern engineering practices, guiding teams, and building platforms that truly make a difference?

Do you love simplifying complexity, supporting others to grow, and creating resilient, scalable automation solutions?

This role would suit someone with strong experience in automation or platform engineering who is ready for a step up into broader leadership—or an established engineering leader who thrives in environments where low-code and DevOps come together.

It’s ideal for someone comfortable navigating a large, matrixed organisation and excited to influence how automation is delivered across Aviva.

A bit about the job:

This role exists to provide engineering leadership for Aviva’s automation platforms—including Appian, Tungsten (IDP), and Power Automate—so that we can deliver automated workflows that are fast, safe, and scalable.

You’ll join a team focused on enabling high-quality, reusable automation assets and driving predictable delivery through Agile and DevOps practices.

You’ll work closely with business areas to shape value-driven solutions, support platform stability and observability, and help our operating model evolve toward DevOps.

Alongside this, you’ll provide engineering expertise to Central Operations for release readiness, incident support, and deep-dive technical problem solving.

Skills and experience we’re looking for :

• Strong technical judgement, with the ability to simplify complex engineering choices and make high-quality decisions quickly.
• Solid understanding of low-code engineering, DevOps, SRE practices, and automation trends.
• Experience leading engineering teams, with the ability to coach and develop others—especially low-code developers.
• Excellent planning, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a large, matrixed organisation.
• Proven engineering capability across automation platforms such as Appian, Tungsten/IDP, and Power Platform, alongside CI/CD and observability practices.

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