Principal Engineer - Enterprise Insight Platforms

Women in Data®; Norwich; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 14%

29 days holiday

Employee discounts

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn

Volunteer days

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva is seeking a strategic technical leader to govern and advance its enterprise BI, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. You will define standards, patterns, and roadmaps across Power BI, Qlik, Snowflake, Dataiku, and cloud environments to balance security, scalability and business value.

You will influence senior stakeholders, lead cross-functional initiatives, and drive governance improvements to enable data-driven decision making across Aviva.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale BI, analytics, and AI/ML platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering standards, design patterns, and roadmaps across BI/Analytics platforms.
• Provide technical leadership on major initiatives including cloud migrations and platform modernisation.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Product and Engineering to maximise value from Insight and AI solutions.

Skills

Stakeholder influence

Technical leadership

Strategy & governance

Platform architecture

Tools

Power BI

Qlik

Snowflake

Dataiku

Job description

• Salary: National £90,000 - £100,000
• Location: Norwich/ Bristol

A bit about the job:

This role is responsible for shaping and governing Aviva’s strategic Insight, BI, and AI/ML platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned to business objectives. Working within Enterprise Data Engineering, you will define engineering standards, design patterns, and technology roadmaps across platforms such as Power BI, Qlik, Snowflake, Dataiku, and emerging AI capabilities. You will provide technical leadership on major initiatives including cloud migrations, platform modernisation, governance improvements, and the adoption of new analytics technologies. Acting as a trusted expert, you will collaborate with Architecture, Product, and Engineering teams to maximise the value delivered through Insight and AI solutions.

This is a highly influential role that combines strategic thinking, technical leadership, and stakeholder engagement to enable data-driven decision making across Aviva.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Extensive experience designing, governing, and evolving enterprise-scale BI, Analytics, and AI/ML platforms, with a strong understanding of modern data and insight ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of tools such as Power BI, Qlik, Snowflake, Dataiku, embedded analytics, and cloud-based data platforms, including platform architecture, governance, and operational best practices.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide technical leadership across complex programmes, balancing business outcomes with technology strategy.
• Experience developing engineering standards, design patterns, roadmaps, and governance frameworks that improve consistency, scalability, security, and platform adoption.
• Good understanding of emerging Analytics and AI trends, including Agentic AI, Decision Intelligence, Enterprise Search, and Knowledge Graphs, with the ability to translate innovation into practical business value.

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.

• National salary National £90,000 - £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% 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
• 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

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.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.