Software Engineer

Job description

You’ll be joining Aviva at an exciting time; working on a portfolio of products that reach out to 17 million customers. You will be part of an organisation who’s focus is building new and innovative ways to engage and interact with new and existing customers. It’s never been more important for us to hire fantastic people into our digital teams who sit at the forefront of delivering our global strategy. Aviva is revolutionising insurance and we want you to be at the forefront.

The Customer Data Team is at the centre of Aviva’s Global Digital journey; providing high quality, safe and accurate data about our customers. We are a rapidly evolving team, embarking upon a tremendously exciting strategy to bring Aviva’s global customer data aspirations to life.

At Aviva our engineering teams:

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Have security in our DNA

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Work to reduce lead times from idea to production 

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Focus on performance, scalability and service as much as function

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Actively remove complexity and duplication

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Drive high quality engineering and efficiency by following our Software Engineering principles

Purpose of the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our digital organisation, working within one of our teams to build and further evolve both new and existing products. You’ll sustain our culture of continuous improvement from a process and technical perspective, ensuring we adhere to good software engineering practices and helping to determine future practices and standards. You will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of software engineers.

For this great opportunity, we are particularly interested in:

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Have exceptional leaderships skills and the ability to guide, mentor and train our future talent

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An individual with an exceptional background using Java

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Someone who has a great record of leading technical deliveries from the front

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An individual who has an exceptional ability to solve problems and deliver under pressure

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Someone who is not afraid to be hands-on and help with coding when and if required

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Someone who is well-versed in modern software engineering practices such as Test-Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and Continuous Integration

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A Lead Engineer who has strong experience of Agile delivery methodologies

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An individual who has significant experience of object-oriented development and practical application of SOLID practices and design patterns

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An Engineer who well-versed in DevOps methodologies and familiarity with AWS DevOps or Azure DevOps

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Good familiarity with graph database technologies

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Someone who understands security threats and mitigations that face modern applications

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Someone who can further enhance the team’s skills through self-directed learning and provided training tools

Duties & responsibilities:

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Leading our development teams focused on shaping new products or features and increasing the technical capability of our products to ensure they are the best fit for our customers

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Working with our software architecture team to contribute towards the improvement of coding standards and technical innovations to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery

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Providing technical expertise and collaborating with our teams across the globe

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Leading our team of software engineers and mentoring less experienced team members.

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Fostering team spirit and collaboration

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Ensuring that the definition of technical components is good enough for a quality delivery from the team

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Ensure that the Agile practices are balanced to ensure a good delivery

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Be the go to person for the triage of technical issues

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Help supply planning values to help the wider business plan for the deployment of the product

What will you get for this role?

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Competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications

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Generous defined contribution pension scheme

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Annual performance related bonus and pay review

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

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

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

Additional Information

One of Aviva’s core values is Care More, and this is brought to life through the flexible ways we like to work. This may include working from home some of the time, or flexible work schedules to accommodate parent and carer responsibilities, further studies and hobbies.

Our diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives are shaping an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of age, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or those with other caring responsibilities. Our approach helps to ensure that Aviva is a place which values difference and provides equal opportunities for all.

As a disability confident employer we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, (As defined in The Equality Act 2010) whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. (By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential). Please apply through the website and then email the contact listed in the advert to notify us that you meet the conditions for the guaranteed interview scheme.

We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying please contact Ali Aurakzai in the Resourcing team on 0121 234 7608 or