Lead Business Data Engineer

Aviva
Norwich
2 weeks ago
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Lead Business Data Engineer

Location: Norwich or Perth


Salary: circa £55,000


This is a great job for someone enjoys partnering with people across a business to solve important problems with data. You’ll thrive if you like listening to stakeholders, understanding what they really need, and turning that into solutions that help them deliver better outcomes for customers and colleagues.


You’ll enjoy using data to solve real problems and wants to shape how we use advanced analytics across our Commercial Lines business. You might be ready for a step up, keen to lead a small team, or excited to work with modern cloud‑based tools.


A bit about the job

You’ll help us build data solutions that make decision‑making faster, clearer and more reliable. Our Commercial Lines data team supports analysts, data scientists and product owners with the tools they need to generate insights.


You’ll design and run the pipelines that power analytics and machine‑learning projects while your work will help us deliver trusted data to the business, improving how we serve customers every day. You’ll also guide and support a small team of data engineers as we grow our capabilities.


Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  • You know how to design and build models, ETL processes and data pipelines.
  • You can write clean, reliable code in Python, SQL or Spark.
  • You’ve worked with modern cloud‑based tools such as Snowflake, dbt or Airflow.
  • You understand what good data quality, governance and security looks like including DevOps best practices.
  • You enjoy working with senior stakeholders, understanding product and business needs. Leading a small team and can translate technical detail into clear actions.

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 promiseisby investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.



  • Starting salary circa £55,000 (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
  • Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
  • 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
  • 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

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.


Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.


We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 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’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on or send an email to


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