Data Engineering Designer

Aviva Direct Ireland Limited; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Data Engineering Designer to facilitate fundamental customer interactions and support digital strategy. This role involves working with projects to produce design documentation, collaborating with architects and scrum teams, and modernizing the data estate. The successful candidate will enjoy a salary between £45,000 - £60,000 plus bonuses, generous pension contributions, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Salary £45,000 - £60,000

10% annual bonus opportunity

Generous pension scheme (up to 14%)

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on products

Free Aviva shares via Matching Share Plan

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including cycle to work

3 paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience with customer data platforms and technical strategies.
• Proven ability to maintain low-cost data estates.
• Ability to analyze production issues effectively.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical strategies for data estate.
• Develop and deliver the technical platform strategy.
• Ensure availability of accurate data.

Skills

Engage with key architectural stakeholders

Identify and research technical plans

Analysis of production issues

Support Platform Architect

Understanding of engineering languages (Java, Python, SQL, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)

Job description

Data Engineering Designer

Salary: £45,000 - £60,000

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 CIO but supporting 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.

The successful candidate will work with projects and business teams, alongside our platform architect, lead engineers and scrum teams to ensure the smooth delivery desired of outcomes.

You will be expected to produce design documentation working alongside project solution designers which then feed into our engineering scrum teams. The role involves working with the wider Architectural Community and the CIO roadmaps to ensure our estate is suitable for business purposes whilst ensuring the technology is future proofed. The role also interacts with the central run and operations team to ensure stable service delivery to our customers.

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 where 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

• Engage with key architectural stakeholders and change forums to coordinate technical strategies that support our estate and customer’s future demand.
• Identify, research and agree technical plans to maintain a complex and but low-cost data estate.
• Analysis of production issues to help support an appropriate plan of resolution to ensure the availability of accurate data
• Support the Platform Architect in developing and delivering the technical platform strategy and roadmaps
• Understanding of various engineering languages and tech i.e. Java, Python, Sql, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary £45,000 - £60,000 (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

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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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