Senior AI Engineer

Aviva plc; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 47,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 10% of annual salary

Pension up to 14%

29 days holiday

Private Medical Benefit

Aviva Share Matching

Save As You Earn

Parental leave

Flexible benefits

Volunteer days

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Aviva plc is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Bristol, Norwich or York to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade AI services. You will own technical direction, shape architecture and set high engineering standards across design, build, testing, deployment and support.

You will mentor others and work with product, platform, data and governance teams to deliver secure, scalable AI solutions with real business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating scalable, production-grade applications.
• Designing solution architectures, APIs, and integration patterns for cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, containers, and modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing and observability.
• Strong understanding of secure engineering and operational excellence in regulated environments.
• Ability to provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering of production-ready AI solutions across the full lifecycle—from design and API development to deployment, observability and resilience.
• Partner with architects, product owners, platform engineers, and governance colleagues to ensure robustness, maintainability, security and compliance.
• Drive best practices in software quality, release management and incident response in enterprise environments.

Skills

Python

Java

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior AI Engineer

Location: Bristol, Norwich or York

Salary: Circa £55k

This is a great job for someone who is an experienced software engineer who wants to lead the design and delivery of enterprise‑grade AI products and platforms. You’ll likely be comfortable owning technical direction, shaping architecture, and setting high engineering standards across design, build, testing, deployment, and support.

This role will suit someone who enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring others, and working across product, platform, data, and governance teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions that have real business impact.

A bit about the job

You’ll be a senior software engineer within a dynamic team building and evolving generative AI services, applications, and platforms for Aviva and our customers. Working with rich data and modern cloud tooling, you’ll lead the engineering of production‑ready solutions across the full lifecycle—from solution design and API development to deployment, observability, resilience, and continuous improvement.

You’ll partner closely with architects, product owners, platform engineers, and governance colleagues to ensure what we build is robust, maintainable, secure, and compliant. This role is about combining strong software engineering discipline with modern AI capabilities to help embed AI as a strategic enterprise capability.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Strong software engineering experience building and operating scalable, production‑grade applications and services, with deep expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript
• Experience designing solution architectures, APIs, and integration patterns for distributed or cloud‑native systems, with a focus on maintainability, performance, and resilience
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, automated testing and observability
• A strong understanding of software quality, secure engineering, and operational excellence, including release management, incident response, and engineering best practice in regulated environments
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, cross‑team collaboration, and clear communication with both engineering and non‑technical stakeholders

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.

• Startingsalary circa £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity –10%of annual salaryActual amountdependson your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generouspensionscheme-Avivawill contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put 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 ourAviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’reinclusive andwelcome 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.

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