Senior Data Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK seeks a Senior Data Engineer to enhance its customer data platforms. This role offers a salary between £45,000 and £60,000, depending on experience and location. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions while ensuring data security and integrity. In addition to a competitive salary, the position includes a bonus opportunity, a generous pension scheme, and numerous employee benefits designed to foster personal growth and community engagement.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity up to 10%

Generous pension scheme (up to 14%)

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Employee discounts

Free Aviva shares through matching plans

Supportive leave policies

Well-being support and tools

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering and development.
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to articulate risks.

Responsibilities

• Work with business teams to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Modernise customer data platforms.
• Support business self-service capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership and guidance

Communication skills

Agile delivery experience

Reltio

Redshift

Springboot

Postgres

Java

SQL

Python

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

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 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 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

• The ideal candidates will be a self-starter who is able to operate independently and has experience of across a range of roles in IT and working in an Agile delivery team
• Ability to provide leadership and guidance on engineering principles to team members to inspire, be able to remain calm, articulate risks and controls to a wide audience and demonstrate clear and logical thinking when dealing with high pressure, high impact situations
• The ability to communicate to all stakeholders in simple terms the requirement, the challenges and solutions
• Software engineering vital to ensure our Platform is performant, robust, cost effective, easy to change and that our customer data is always secure
• Experience with Reltio, Redshift, Springboot, Postgres, Java, SQL, Python, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc

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 £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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