Lead Data Engineer

Salary: Circa £100,000

This is a great role for someone with a passion for technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We are currently recruiting for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Aviva Zero team.

Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer headquartered in London, set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It will combine the pace, focus, and test and learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise, and financial backing of Aviva.

A bit about the job:

As the Lead data Engineer, you are responsible for:

• Leading, developing, and providing oversight of a team with responsibility to develop, construct, test and maintain user-friendly data architectures and to design innovative new solutions to enable leading edge data science, whilst driving effective data governance.
• Support the delivery of good customer outcomes through all activities and deliverables, enabling us to act in good faith towards customers, avoid causing foreseeable harm and enable and support our customers to pursue their financial objectives.
• Manage a team of direct reports, driving high performance and ensuring activities are carried out efficiently and to a high standard, whilst delivering performance management, technical development, and coaching.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• A strong background delivering a service to data consumers.
• Proven ability to Collaborate with IT architects to design and lead the implementation of new data solutions.
• Able to demonstrate managing a team of direct reports committed to driving adherence to data governance within the team and resolving escalated technical queries within a team.
• Extensive experience with Snowflake is essential and working knowledge of dbt, Airflow and AWS is highly desirable.
• Extensive stakeholders’ management experience ideally in area of responsibility, with IT and architects and with external suppliers.

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 £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% 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 people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

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 Sahra Abdulla a call on 07775 042 835 or send an email to sahra.abdulla@aviva.com.