Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Galahad Platform Team

Salary: circa £45,000

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help us build and improve the internal platforms that support Group Protection. This role exists to keep our production systems reliable, secure, and performing well. You’ll join a supportive Platform team that enables our product squads to deliver great software efficiently. We work closely with colleagues across engineering, testing, and operations to solve issues and keep services running smoothly.

A bit about the job

• Logging, tracking, and managing incidents through to resolution.
• Supporting business-led change and helping deliver improvements.
• Creating scripts and tools that automate tasks and enhance performance.
• Supporting risk, control, PEN and audit assessments.
• Keeping documentation clear, accurate, and up to date.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience supporting high-transaction, mission-critical systems.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Clear and confident verbal and written communication.
• Experience with automation and delivering tooling improvements.
• Technical skills in AWS, SQL and Oracle fundamentals, PowerShell, Jenkins or similar CI tooling, Digital.ai (XLR)

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 £45,000  for National based (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
• 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 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