Senior Data Engineer

Aviva; Bristol; On-site; GBP 65,000

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

Salary Circa £65,000

Location: Bristol only

The Senior Data Engineer will provide data technical expertise, delivery capability and project execution guidance across the development & IT Change community.

The role will be critical to ensuring development standards are maintained in delivering solutions to time and budgetary targets.

This role will suit a highly organised and effective communicator for all levels of stakeholders.

About the job:

• Understands the detailed technical deliverables and requirements across multiple projects.
• Is a technical expert in Data Engineering technologies and able to give informed technical input into the preparation of solution designs.
• Will proactively balance their level of involvement within projects as necessary and supports and guides the development team as required.
• Excellent understanding of Data Warehouse Methodologies.
• Working within a Waterfall/Agile environment.
• The Lead developer of ETL solutions on a project-by-project basis.
• Uses their Technical knowledge to ensure solutions are performant, secure and follow governance standards.
• Promotes the use and enhancement of shared utilities and common coding routines.
• Supports production applications, including defect analysis and emergency fixes.
• Is a point of contact across the wider DAP for technical guidance and support.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong technical consultancy experience across ETL/ELT/Data Warehouse/Big Data but comfortable with hands-on delivery.
• Experienced in the use of ETL applications and advantageous to have used the Informatica suite of products (Power Centre, BDM, IICS, IDMC) alongside experience in Cloud Technologies, AWS Data Lake.
• Experienced in a variety of Database technologies (Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake).
• Awareness of scripting languages such as Python and PySpark and uses within the context of data transfer/manipulation.
• Ability to assimilate technical and business information and to help translate these into practical solutions alongside positively challenging existing and proposed solutions.

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.

• Salary Circa £65,000 (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.

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 to apply. 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 around 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 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 Sahra Abdulla a call on 07775 042 835 or send an email to [e-mail].