Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering

Location: London, Bristol or Norwich

Salary: London: circa £150k / Regional: circa £130k

A bit about the job

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to lead a significant digital engineering function and help shape the future of Aviva's digital experiences.

You'll be responsible for delivering secure, resilient and scalable products that support millions of customer and colleague interactions. Working closely with senior leaders across Product, Architecture, Security and Delivery, you'll define engineering strategy, build organisational capability and drive technology modernisation.

This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to influence outcomes across Aviva while developing high-performing engineering teams.

What you'll be doing

As Head of Engineering, you'll lead a large engineering function responsible for delivering and operating digital products and platforms that support our customers and colleagues. You'll provide strategic leadership across your domain, ensuring technology solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and aligned to business priorities.

Working closely with leaders across Product, Architecture, Security, Data and Delivery, you'll help shape technology roadmaps, drive investment decisions and support the successful delivery of digital initiatives. You'll balance the demands of today with the opportunities of tomorrow, helping modernise platforms, strengthen engineering capability and improve customer outcomes.

You'll lead and develop Senior Engineering Leaders, Principal Engineers and multidisciplinary teams, creating an inclusive environment where people can thrive. A key part of the role will be embedding modern engineering practices, improving delivery performance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and learning.

Skills and experience we're looking for

• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organisations, including developing senior engineering leaders, building high-performing teams and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement.
• Experience defining and executing engineering strategy, including technology modernisation, platform transformation, investment planning and the adoption of modern engineering practices such as DevOps, automation, AI and cloud-based technologies including AWS/Azure.
• Exceptional stakeholder leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and drive alignment across business, product and technology leadership teams. Experience operating within large, complex or regulated organisations would be beneficial.
• Strong technical credibility and commercial awareness, with experience making strategic decisions across engineering, architecture, security, risk, suppliers, cost management and long-term technology direction. Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, APIs and modern digital platforms.
• A track record of delivering significant technology change and business outcomes, whether through digital transformation, platform modernisation or organisational change programmes. Experience within insurance, financial services or other highly regulated sectors, along with relevant engineering, cloud or architecture certifications, would be welcomed but is not essential.

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 London: circa £150k / Regional: circa £130k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

· Bonus opportunity 25% - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's

· Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% 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

· 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 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 at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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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 07795207964 or send an email to chloe.nettley@aviva.com