Data Product Solutions Lead

Data Product Solutions Lead

Salary: Up to £68,000

Our Data Analytics Platform Design team is currently recruiting for a Data Product Solutions Lead to play a key role shaping and delivering a number of exciting data projects. This role has a key function driving how we manage, prepare, and assure a wide selection of data assets to support a diverse group of business areas.

As a Data Product Solutions lead, you will define solutions to support a range of development and transformation projects working with Business Data Product owners to define design priorities, solutions and prioritise team delivery activities.

Our broader design team is multi-disciplined and multi-faceted - as a member of our pioneering team, you will provide support and design guidance across multiple teams, collaborating with business users, solution developers, solution architects, and fellow designers.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of our team and business! We are constantly modernising our complex data estate - cloud and data lake are our strategic targets, with business self-service and the concept of Mesh computing also in our sights.

A bit about the job:

• Key point of contact for the business to shape and defining conceptual work.
• This role will fully understand the business roadmaps and the data elements required to underpin them.
• Hands on role in cloud data solution design but also design leadership of supporting solution designers in the team.
• Interpret the business requirements and define high level solution designs that are high performing, scalable and sustainable.
• Propose, evaluate, and present design options (key design decisions) to business users and Data Engineering teams.
• Keep abreast of our IT strategy ensuring solution designs align to our roadmap.
• Develop a Subject matter expert view of Aviva’s product set, and the data sets that describe them.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Great business stakeholder skills and the ability to provide summaries to both technical and non-technical consumers. 
• Proven ability to collaboratively define IT Data solutions in a complex environment – with a core focus on cloud data solutions (AWS desirable).
• Mature understanding of ETL\ Data warehouse\ Big Data stack design and engineering.
• Track record of delivering robust IT solution designs in a regulated, commercial environment.
• Ability to elicit\interpret requirements from business users and liaise with data and systems SMEs; Ability to explain technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.

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.

• Salary up to £68,000 (location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity of 10% 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.

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Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

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.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Sahra Abdulla a call on 07775 042 835 or send an email to sahra.abdulla@aviva.com.