Head of Engineering

Aviva; City Of London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 25%

Pension scheme

Private Medical Benefit

Holiday 29 days

Share scheme matching

Save As You Earn

Parental & carer leave

Flexible benefits

Cycle to work

Volunteer days

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva in London, Bristol or Norwich seeks a Head of Engineering to lead a significant digital engineering function and shape the future of Aviva's digital experiences.

You'll deliver secure, resilient and scalable products for millions of customer and colleague interactions, shaping engineering strategy, building capability and driving technology modernisation in collaboration with Product, Architecture and Security.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organisations.
• Experience defining and executing engineering strategy, including modernisation and cloud technologies.
• Exceptional stakeholder leadership and influencing skills in large or regulated organisations.
• Strong technical credibility with experience in cloud-native architectures and APIs.
• Track record delivering technology change and business outcomes, in regulated sectors preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large engineering function delivering and operating digital products and platforms for customers and colleagues.
• Shape technology roadmaps, drive investment decisions and support delivery of digital initiatives.
• Embed modern engineering practices, improve delivery performance and foster continuous learning.
• Develop Senior Engineering Leaders and multidisciplinary teams across the function.

Skills

Leading large-scale teams

Engineering strategy

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud-native & APIs

Digital transformation

Job description

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 promiseisby 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 pensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.
• 29 daysholidayplus bank holidays,and you can choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefitto help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further -Up to 40%discountonAviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through ourMatching Share Planand share in the success of Aviva with ourSave As You Earnscheme
• Brilliantlysupportive policiesincluding parentalandcarer’s leave
• Flexible benefitsto suit you, includingsustainability optionssuch as cycle to work
• Make a difference,be part of our Aviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots 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 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, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spendingat least50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.