Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Location: Bristol, Norwich or York

Salary: Circa £55k

This is a great job for someone who is an experienced software engineer who wants to lead the design and delivery of enterprise‑grade AI products and platforms. You’ll likely be comfortable owning technical direction, shaping architecture, and setting high engineering standards across design, build, testing, deployment, and support.

This role will suit someone who enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring others, and working across product, platform, data, and governance teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions that have real business impact.

A bit about the job

 You’ll be a senior software engineer within a dynamic team building and evolving generative AI services, applications, and platforms for Aviva and our customers. Working with rich data and modern cloud tooling, you’ll lead the engineering of production‑ready solutions across the full lifecycle—from solution design and API development to deployment, observability, resilience, and continuous improvement.

You’ll partner closely with architects, product owners, platform engineers, and governance colleagues to ensure what we build is robust, maintainable, secure, and compliant. This role is about combining strong software engineering discipline with modern AI capabilities to help embed AI as a strategic enterprise capability.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Strong software engineering experience building and operating scalable, production‑grade applications and services, with deep expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript
• Experience designing solution architectures, APIs, and integration patterns for distributed or cloud‑native systems, with a focus on maintainability, performance, and resilience
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing and observability
• A strong understanding of software quality, secure engineering, and operational excellence, including release management, incident response, and engineering best practice in regulated environments
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, cross‑team collaboration, and clear communication with both engineering and non‑technical stakeholders

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.  

• Starting salary circa £55,000 (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 
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it 
• 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 

Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 

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 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'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on 07795207964 or send an email to chloe.nettley@aviva.com