Data Engineering Manager

Data Engineering Manager

Salary – National £40,000 – £50,000, London £50,000 – £60,000

Are you someone with a passion for data innovation and a talent for leading high-performing teams? We’re seeking a skilled Data Engineering Manager to join Aviva and drive our data initiatives to new heights. In this role you will help to shape the future of insurance through cutting-edge data delivery and predictive analytics.

A bit about the job:

Join our team to take on the exciting challenge of building and implementing data pipelines and MLOps features. You’ll play a crucial role in supporting our automation-first approach, ensuring efficiency and scalability in our processes. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to develop and share your expertise in data structures and metrics, advocating for necessary changes to drive product development forward. Embrace our Agile and DataOps approaches as you contribute to our culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and robust code in SQL, Python, Scala, Java or similar languages – preference SQL and Python

• Experience in data pipeline software engineering and best practice in SQL and python (linting, unit tests, integration tests, git flow/pull request process, object-oriented development, data validation, algorithms and data structures, technical troubleshooting and debugging, bash scripting

• Experience with analytics (descriptive, predictive, EDA), feature engineering and python visualization libraries (e.g. matplotlib, seaborn or others)

• Experience in data architecture, data warehousing and modelling techniques (Relational, ETL, OLTP) and consider performance alternatives

• Experience of working in agile teams is required and must possess a willingness to be part of a highly collaborative team and to work closely with the customer.

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.

• Starting salary – National £40,000 – £50,000, London £50,000 – £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 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 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 Matthew Drew a call on 0121 234 7664 or send an email to [email protected].