Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Salary: circa £70,000

Customer Data Platforms is a collection of data platform teams that facilitate fundamental customer interactions and journeys, which enable Aviva to deliver on its customer-centric strategy and most importantly, appropriate and fair customer decisions.

This role resides in the Customer Data team, which is at the core of Aviva’s digital strategy and provides a single source of customer data across our Customer and Marketing, GI and IWR propositions. We’re constantly striving to explore innovative ways to engage with new and existing customers on a portfolio of products that reach out to 17 million customers.

This successful candidate will work with projects and business teams, alongside our platform designers and scrum teams to ensure the smooth delivery desired of outcomes.

We are constantly modernising our complex data estate and play an important part in all Aviva teams achieving strategic targets, whilst supporting business self-service were possible.  We welcome those with specific suitable skills – or with a healthy appetite to learn and develop these skills with us.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Software engineering leadership experience, with the ability to lead technical teams, influence engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive continuous improvement across large-scale platforms. 
• Strong Java development expertise, including experience with modern software engineering practices, CI/CD pipelines, SOLID design principles, and delivering high-quality, resilient production solutions. 
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms and integration technologies, including databases such as PostgreSQL and Redshift, API-based data ingestion, and ideally Master Data Management solutions such as Reltio.
• Technical leadership in cloud and DevOps environments, with knowledge of AWS, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, automation, monitoring, and building scalable, secure, and highly available services.
• Strong stakeholder management and delivery skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across engineering, architecture, platform, business, and operational teams to deliver strategic outcomes and improve customer experiences.

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

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 around 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 Harjot Kaur a call on 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com