Lead Data Engineer

Job description

Lead Data Engineer

Salary: Up to £50,000 National / Up to £60,000 London

Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled data engineer with significant experience of snowflake. 

As well as being an expert in the snowflake cloud platform, you’ll have a strong background in data ingestion and integration, designing and implementing data pipelines on various technologies, data modelling, and a rounded understanding of data warehousing.

Aviva believes strongly in experimentation leading to industrialisation and we are searching for passionate, energetic data engineers who are focussed on using their skills to drive out real business value for our customers.

A bit about the job:

An exciting opportunity within one of our data engineering teams for a highly skilled individual to work within our data environment, which is helping to shape the future of insurance through cutting-edge predictive analytics and data science.

Data is the life blood of any modern organisation and Aviva is no different.  Our data engineering team sits within Aviva quantum our global data science practise (covering areas including machine learning, analytics, data engineering, AI and many more).

You will form a vital part of our business, contributing to our first-class end-to-end solutions. You will play an active role in defining our practices, standards, and ways of working, and applying them to your role – whilst being open to working across organisation and team boundaries to ensure we bring the best to our customers.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

·  Experienced data engineering leader building event driven data solution within Snowflake on AWS, with strong working knowledge of DataOps and CI/CD best practises. 
·  Experience of building/developing/managing data using the Data Vault architecture built using DBT.
·  Strong technical background with a firm grounding in SQL and Python, enabling you to lead & develop our most sophisticated work, able to mentor and develop junior engineers.
·  Strong strategic thinking to lead on strategic data direction and data architecture. Experience of working and leading a team using Agile delivery methodology.
·  Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with customers to establish requirements, designs and deliver the solution. 

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 : Up to £50,000 National / Up to £60,000 London (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
·  Bonus opportunity of 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 are 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.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look  here

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 Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com