Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Starting salary circa £35,000

As a Software Engineer aligned to our retirement platforms, you will specialise in our Bulk Purchase Annuity Policy Administration System (Administrator BPA). You’ll be responsible for delivering change and run activity aligned with platform strategy, ensuring system health, and maintaining technical governance across the estate.
 

A bit about the job:

We are seeking a proactive and technically skilled individual to join our team in a dynamic platform operations role. As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for managing system performance and availability, including incident management and recovery. You will support both development and maintenance activities, delivering change and run operations aligned with platform strategy and governance, while overseeing release deployments and batch job execution.

In this role, you will ensure technical governance by maintaining high standards of code quality, compliance with IT and business policies, and adherence to technical specifications. You will also drive continuous improvement across technical and process areas to enhance delivery efficiency and customer outcomes.

Collaboration is key, and you will work closely with platform specialists, business analysts, and third-party vendors to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. Additionally, you will maintain comprehensive technical documentation and support the onboarding of new schemes and change requests.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience working with databases, including SQL and stored procedures.

• Familiarity with configuring and tailoring third-party applications (e.g. EQ Administrator).

• Solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, including configuration management.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team and communicate technical concepts clearly.

• Exposure to Oracle DB, batch processing frameworks, and pension administration systems is desirable.

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 £35,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity – 8% 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

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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’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Martyn Biddulph a call on 07721 572 935 or send an email to martyn.biddulph@aviva.com.