Developer Productivity & Experience Lead
Aviva
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Job summary
Aviva is seeking a Developer Productivity & Experience Lead to define and drive the DevEx strategy across the organisation. You will partner with Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud, Security and Architecture to improve workflows, tooling, and automation.
You will establish metrics for engineering effectiveness and platform adoption, delivering executive insights and driving continuous improvement across teams.
Qualifications
- Experience with GitHub and modern software engineering practices.
- Ability to measure and improve engineering workflows using data.
- Knowledge of dashboards and visualisations (Power BI, Grafana, Tableau).
- Strong stakeholder engagement with senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Define and deliver DevEx strategy across Aviva.
- Measure engineering effectiveness, satisfaction, and platform adoption.
- Create executive reporting on insights and improvements.
- Collaborate with Software/Platform Engineering, Cloud, Security and Architecture.
- Help quantify AI-assisted software development impact.
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Job description
This is a great opportunity for someone with a background in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, engineering effectiveness, developer tooling or technology product management who is passionate about improving how engineers build, test, deploy and operate software.
We're looking for a data-driven leader who can combine technology, analytics and developer insight to create a better experience for engineers across Aviva.
If you enjoy solving complex problems, influencing senior stakeholders and using evidence to drive meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.
As our Developer Productivity & Experience Lead, you'll define and deliver Aviva's Developer Experience (DevEx) strategy across the organisation.
Working within our Engineering Excellence & Developer Platform function, you'll help thousands of engineers spend less time battling friction and more time delivering value for customers.
You'll establish how we measure engineering effectiveness, developer satisfaction and platform adoption, creating clear insights and executive reporting that drive continuous improvement. You'll partner closely with teams across Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud, Security and Architecture to improve development workflows, tooling and automation.
A key focus of the role will be helping Aviva understand and measure the impact of AI-assisted software development and agentic engineering capabilities, ensuring we continue to evolve how technology is delivered across the business.
- Experience working with GitHub and modern software engineering practices, with a background in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, engineering effectiveness, developer tooling, or technology product management.
- Experience using GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira and Datadog to measure, analyse and improve engineering workflows, developer productivity, operational performance and software delivery outcomes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data, metrics and insights to influence technology strategy, investment decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Knowledge of engineering performance and productivity frameworks such as DORA, SPACE and Flow Framework, alongside experience creating dashboards and visualisations using tools such as Power BI, Grafana or Tableau.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence engineering, architecture, platform and senior leadership teams. Experience with developer productivity platforms (e.g. DX, LinearB, Jellyfish), internal developer platforms, AI-enabled software delivery and regulated environments would be advantageous.
Our purpose –with you today, for a better tomorrow–applies to our colleagues too.Here’swhat we offer:
- Salary:Circa £65,000(depending on location,skillsand experience).
- Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
- Generouspensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
- 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 ourAviva Communitiesand use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
- Take a lookto learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.
- We’reinclusive and welcome everyone–we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences.
- Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if youdon’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,hoursand working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of theirtime 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 lookhere
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