Aviva is changing and data is at the heart of the transformation. In line with our goal of being the first choice for financial services in the UK, data is transforming all areas of our business. With over 18 million customers, we are uplifting our core data capabilities to deliver exceptional customer experiences and the data and analytics enablement is recognized as a strategic driver of change.

Therefore, we are recruiting for a Data Engineering Manager to join our Data office within Aviva.

The Data Engineering manager is responsible for building data pipelines and data engineering solutions to support the development of Data Products and Measurement and Reporting solutions for the Customer & Marketing central organization.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Responsible for Data Modelling underpinning the development of the core Data products and analytics for the Customer & Marketing organization. This will require to work closely with Data Product Owners and Data Analysts to align the deliverables of the engineering team with the business requirements

Own the overall Data Pipelines feeding the Data Model, ensuring they are reliable and scalable. This requires defining the process of gathering requirements from the data owners, building data ingestion pipelines, data transformation jobs, publishing the data to appropriate tables, setting up data quality controls and ensuring the correct data access is set up.

Work closely with Tech data delivery teams to evolve towards a more automated data platform.

Drive automation, and increase performance and reduce overhead of existing BI products

Drive increased maturity of the Data Engineering products, developing best practise for cloud based BI products

Develop data engineering solution with the scope of supporting the Data Analysts community and Customer Science teams to have ease of access to usable and high quality data

Skills & Experience required:

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or similar

Extensive experience in a Data Engineering with demonstrable experience of building end-to-end ETL/ BI products

Advanced experience with ETL and Data Integration tools, with strong understanding of ETL concepts

Experience with programming languages a must and Python preferred

Proven experience with big data implementations and related architecture

People management experience with proven ability to develop talent, set up new teams and develop onboarding programmes

Great consultative skills required to work directly with the business leaders and appropriately influence, understand, and resolve capability gaps

What will you get for this role?

Competitive salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.

Generous defined contribution pension scheme

Annual performance related bonus and pay review

Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow!

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Ben Parker a call on 07833 239 394 or send an email to ben.parker@aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.