Data Security Engineer

Aviva; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10% of annual salary

Generous pension up to 14%

29 days holiday + bank holidays

Aviva product discounts

Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares

Volunteer days (3)

Cycle to work option

Job summary

Aviva is hiring a Data Platforms and SaaS Security Engineer to implement and operate security controls across enterprise data platforms and SaaS services. You will strengthen security posture by monitoring, aligning with standards, and automating checks across Snowflake, Dataiku, Salesforce and other critical systems.

You will create and maintain custom API queries and scripts to assess configuration, access, and control effectiveness, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience securing enterprise data platforms and SaaS environments.
• Experience with posture management tools and data governance across cloud/SaaS.
• Experience consuming SaaS/cloud APIs to extract security-relevant data.
• Strong collaboration and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate security controls across Aviva’s data platforms and SaaS environments.
• Support continuous security monitoring and alignment with security standards.
• Contribute to SSPM tooling deployment, risk identification, remediation and reporting.
• Engineer and automate security checks, including custom API queries and scripts.

Skills

Snowflake security

Data platform security

SaaS security controls

Posture management (SSPM)

API integration & extraction

Tools

Snowflake

Dataiku

Salesforce

SSPM tooling

Job description

Salary circa £65,000 subject to skills and experience

Locations: Leatherhead / Eastleigh / Bristol / Norwich / Perth / York (UK)

About the Role

As a Data Platforms and SaaS Security Engineer, you will play a key hands‑on role in implementing and operating security controls across Aviva’s enterprise data platforms and SaaS environments. You will support continuous security monitoring, ensure alignment with security standards, and help strengthen the organisation’s security posture across platforms such as Snowflake and critical SaaS services.

You will also engineer and automate security checks, including creating and maintaining custom API queries and scripts where required to assess configuration, access, and control effectiveness beyond standard tooling.

Working within a collaborative Application and Platform Security function, you will contribute to SSPM tooling deployment, implementation, risk identification, remediation activities, and security reporting to enable scalable and compliant security operations.

• Experience supporting continuous compliance monitoring against frameworks such as CIS, NIST, and financial services regulatory standards.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and communicate security risks clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands‑on experience securing enterprise Data Platforms such as Snowflake, Dataiku, Salesforce and/or SaaS applications within large‑scale or regulated environments.
• Practical knowledge of posture management tools such as SSPM and PaaS/SaaS security controls, including configuration management, posture monitoring, and risk identification.
• Practical experience consuming SaaS, cloud, or data‑platform APIs to extract configuration, identity, access, or security‑relevant data.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management, data access governance, and shared responsibility models in SaaS ecosystems.

What you’ll get for this role

• Salary: circa £65,000 based (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
• 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.