Data Delivery Lead

Job description

Data Delivery Lead

Salary - Circa £70,000

12 Month FTC

This is a fantastic opportunity for a change delivery professional to become part of the IT data community within Aviva. You will join at an exciting time for our data platforms and services, which form a core pillar of the organisational strategy, and are the focal point for many key initiatives over the coming years.

In this role you will lead the change portfolio for the IWR (Insurance, Wealth and Retirement) Data Platform, providing delivery leadership across-data related projects impacting our IWR Business function. You will be responsible for the controlled, reliable, and predictable management of deliveries within what is a complex and shifting environment, across multiple teams and platforms.

This role is a 12-Month fixed term contract with potential to be a permanent position for the right candidate.

A bit about the job:

• Provide delivery leadership across IWR Data Platform projects. This currently includes Oak Equity Release, Greening Finance, and New Consumer Duty amongst others
• Engage across business, IT and the data platform team to effectively build and manage the pipeline of change
• Work with Data Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure high quality, efficient delivery for their projects in addition to providing support to individual initiatives to manage key blockers and dependencies
• Effectively manage delivery risk within the IWR Data Platform portfolio
• Continuously strive to enhance our change delivery capability, working with a wide range of stakeholders to create an effective Agile environment within the wider project ecosystem

Skills and Experience:

If you are passionate about change delivery and have a track record of successfully implementing technical change, then we would love to hear from you. In particular:

• Strong stakeholder management skills and an ability to work across business and IT teams to shape and agree delivery approaches and plans
• Excellent team player who can motivate a diverse team of permanent, onshore and offshore resource, inspiring individuals and teams to change and improve
• An excellent understanding of project delivery methodologies, including agile values and principles
• Experience coordinating technical and engineering resource in technical projects
• Excellent facilitation, coaching and influencing skills

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.

• Starting salary circa £70,000 (depending on 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

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Aviva is for everyone:

We're 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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