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Head of Engineering

Employer
Aviva
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
16 Jan 2023

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Head of Engineering - Salary £100,000 - £120,000.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in leading complex challenges, building new products and platforms amongst the backdrop of a rapidly scaling new business. We are committed to creating a culture of agility, design-thinking, and true cross-functional collaboration. And we are providing the room for new thinking, evolving architecture, and genuine rapid change capability. If you have a hands-on background in Software Engineering and/or DevOps and can provide the knowledge, experience, and mentorship to help build and guide a newly formed Engineering team, then we absolutely want to hear from you.

A bit about the job:
Aviva Zero is both a new-to-market carbon-conscious motor insurance product, and a new independent technology platform. We've combined a brand new serverless, API-driven platform together with advanced data and machine learning capabilities to establish a next-gen capability that we enable a rapid acceleration in Aviva's sustainability agenda and growth objectives.

We have an integrated, focused operating model to allow us to make good decisions and execute them at pace. Our newly created in-house Engineering function will ensure we continue to build out a fit-for-purpose, scalable, and secure technology platform, and this role sits as an integral part of the Technical Leadership Team.

On behalf of the Aviva Zero Chief Technology Officer, the Head of Engineering will lead major technical change initiatives for the Aviva Zero product roadmap, improvement in the Engineering target operating model and ensures appropriate execution of our architecture principles and engineering excellence strategy.

Aviva uses "smart-working", and the person in this role will be based at our London office. There is a small requirement to travel to the Norwich office very rarely (every few months).
Skills and experience we're looking for:
  • Solid experience as a full-stack lead Engineer, ideally experienced in building consumer facing products based on microservice architecture principles. Strong working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD best practices, with experience in long-term platform level technology strategy and planning.
  • Exemplary technical leadership, with experience translating product strategy into fit-for-purpose solution designs and engineering approaches.
  • Confident mentor and confident in leading cross-functional change initiatives, and a natural mentor to junior engineers.
  • Technologically adept and demonstrates outstanding ability to provide both hands-on technical execution and guidance to others, and confident leading strategic direction decisions at an architectural level.
  • Versatile with multiple delivery methodologies, with strong cross-functional technical stakeholder management capabilities; able to balance desired pace of change with technical risk considerations.

What you'll get for this role:
  • Salary from £100,000 to £120,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
  • Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Family friendly parental and carer's leave
  • 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  • Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  • Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  • Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  • 21 volunteering hours per year

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 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

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

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