Digital Business Partner

Aviva plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London salary equity

Bonus 12%

Pension scheme

Holidays 29 days

Private medical

Share plan

Volunteer days

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva plc in London or Bristol is seeking a Digital Business Partner to translate business and customer strategy into technology outcomes, influencing senior stakeholders to deliver change across Digital, Engineering, Delivery and Architecture.

You'll shape technology direction, manage risk and budget, champion automation and AI, and foster collaboration to ensure investments deliver value for customers and colleagues across a large financial services organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and translating business strategy into technology, digital or transformation outcomes.
• Strong understanding of technology governance, risk management and control frameworks, with ability to identify and remediate risks.
• Experience shaping large-scale change initiatives and managing investment priorities.
• Knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and performance reporting across technology portfolios.
• Passion for innovation, automation and AI to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and customer strategy into technology outcomes that deliver measurable value.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across Digital, Engineering, Delivery and Architecture to shape technology direction.
• Challenge and shape technology demand while ensuring governance and controls are embedded.
• Drive investment decisions aligned with strategic priorities and paste transparency in planning and reporting.

Skills

Senior stakeholder relationships

Strategy to tech translation

Digital transformation

Governance & risk

Investment prioritization

Job description

Digital Business Partner

Location: London or Bristol

Salary: London: circa 100k / Bristol: circa 85k

This is a great job for someone who enjoys connecting business strategy with technology outcomes and thrives on influencing senior stakeholders to deliver meaningful change. You might be an experienced technology leader, business partner, strategy manager, or digital transformation professional who can balance customer needs, innovation, risk management, and investment decisions while working across complex organisations.

A bit about the job:

As a Digital Business Partner, you'll play a key role in translating business and customer strategy into technology outcomes that deliver measurable value. Working closely with senior leaders across Digital, Engineering, Delivery and Architecture, you'll help shape technology direction, drive innovation and ensure investment decisions align with strategic priorities.

You'll challenge and shape technology demand, establish a clear and consolidated focus on risk across platforms and services, and provide transparency through planning, budgeting and performance reporting. The role is focused on influencing and collaboration, ensuring change is effectively shaped before delivery, governance and controls are embedded, and technology investments deliver value for customers, colleagues and the business.

You’ll also champion innovation through automation and AI, build strong relationships across Technology and the wider business, and help create a culture of continuous improvement by learning from incidents, resolving recurring issues and driving evidence-based decision making.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Proven experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and translating business strategy into technology, digital or transformation outcomes.
• Strong understanding of technology governance, risk management and control frameworks, with the ability to identify, assess and support the remediation of business and technology risks.
• Experience shaping large-scale change initiatives, creating transparency in total cost of ownership for market aligned Digital products and driving reductions, managing investment priorities and balancing cost, driving customer outcomes in decision-making.
• Knowledge of financial planning, budgeting and performance reporting, with the ability to provide transparency and insight across technology portfolios and investments.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement, with experience driving adoption of emerging technologies, automation and AI to improve business and customer outcomes.

Whatyou’llget 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 promiseisby investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary London: circa 100k / Bristol: circa 85k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 12% – 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
• 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 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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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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