Data Platform Lead

Aviva Direct Ireland Limited; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a Data Platform Lead to manage a team of around 90 technical specialists. This role involves providing governance on projects, ensuring requirements are met, and leading multiple workstreams. Ideal candidates should possess previous experience in project or data management, as well as strong leadership and communication skills. The role offers a salary between £40,000 and £55,000, alongside a generous benefits package including a bonus opportunity and flexible benefits.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity up to 10%

Generous pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Discounts on Aviva products

Free Aviva shares

Parental and carer’s leave

Flexible benefits

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Prior experience in a scrum master or technology, IT, project, or data management role.
• Proven track record in managing large teams, preferably software professionals.
• Self-motivated with strong communication skills, influencing stakeholders at director level.

Responsibilities

• Support management of a large team of 90 technical specialists.
• Provide oversight and governance on new and ongoing work.
• Manage multiple workstreams while ensuring project requirements are met.

Skills

Team management

Communication skills

Project management

Cloud technologies

Job description

Data Platform Lead

Salary: £40,000 - £55,000

Are you a great people leader within the Project or Data Management, Technology and/or IT space, who is now keen to further develop their skillset in a busy, fast-paced supplier facing role? Do you have a passion for IT Marketing? Our platform enables and supports our marketeers to make the best use of our extensive suite of application's, configuring them to suit their needs, is this something you would like to be a part of? If so, we’d love to hear from you….

A bit about the job:

You will support the management of a large team of c. 90 technical specialists – both on and off-shore – who are either Aviva staff or employed by our services supplier's. You will provide oversight and governance on new, as well as ongoing work, ensuring that our project requirements are met, services are maintained and that our estate infrastructure is fit for purpose, is kept secure and is also kept within budget.

You will need to be able to manage multiple workstreams, alongside motivating and leading numerous developers successfully. The role will also allow you to work alongside a team of technical specialists, ensuring efficient solutions are built that meet our customer’s, as well as Marketing business, needs.

Qualifications

• Prior experience working in a scum master or technology, IT, project, or data management role, with excellent knowledge of successfully working alongside a third party, service supplier
• Proven track record of managing large teams, preferably software professionals, motivating, and developing them, to ensure high performance
• Well organised and self-motivated with very strong communication skills, including being able to influence and challenge stakeholders up to Director level, to ensure IT solutions are appropriate
• Ability to manage several strands of work concurrently, handling workstreams, priorities and escalations while supporting 3rd party associates (both on and offshore)
• Ability to work well during periods of change with expert knowledge of future planning / resourcing, exercising a base knowledge of cloud technologies

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 £40,000 - £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
• 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

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 [e-mail]