Data Science and Advanced Analytics Manager

Data Science and Advanced Analytics Platform Manager

Salary circa £80,000

If you are passionate about leveraging data solutions to drive business insights and you enjoy solving data challenges through technical enablement, then this role is for you! We are seeking a talented data professional to join our team as Data Science and Advanced Analytics Platform Manager.

In this role you will lead and develop our growing Data Science Platform, supporting multiple Data Science toolsets and over 3,000 Data Science users across Aviva. In an increasingly data intensive world, the Data Science and Advanced Analytics Platform allows business teams to unlock actionable insight and models, driving successful business outcomes on a self-serve basis.

This position requires a minimum of 2 days per week on-site in Norwich.

A bit about the job:

Working within the Data & Analytics function in Aviva IT, you will:

• Partner with business Data Science teams to promote and grow our Data Science and Advanced Analytics capabilities.

• Keep pace with advancements in Data Science approaches, tooling, and capabilities to aid development of the future roadmap for the platform.

• Lead and develop the Data Science and Advanced Analytics Platform team, ensuring skills and methodologies match business need, and shaping and developing the platform team for success.

• Support effective change delivery through the platform, building high quality, timely solutions for our stakeholders.

• Ensure operational effectiveness of the Platform, keeping it stable, performant, and secure, and protecting our data.

Skills and experience we are looking for:

If you are passionate about data and have experience of successfully supporting business teams in their adoption and use of Data Science and Analytics tools, then we would love to hear from you. You will have:

• The ability to successfully engage with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior leadership, to drive business capability and outcomes.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts in an easy-to-understand way.

• Experience in implementation and use of tools such as Dataiku, Posit, Sagemaker and Gen AI offerings (Code Whisperer, AlphaCode, GitHub CoPilot etc)

• Knowledge of best practice in Machine Learning Ops, and the associated processes required to support.

• Strong leadership capabilities, developing highly engaged, skilled, and productive teams.

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 circa £80,000 (depending on 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 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].