Head of Engineering Platforms in Bristol

This is a great job for someone who thrives on leading large-scale platform and engineering teams through transformation and enjoys shaping how modern technology delivers real impact for millions of customers. Someone who can balance operational excellence with innovation, and bring people together to deliver resilient, high-performing platforms. Do you love to turn strategy into measurable outcomes while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture? This role would suit an experienced technology leader who has worked in complex, enterprise environments—ideally within financial services or similarly regulated industries—and is ready to take on a broad, high-impact leadership role.

A bit about the job: As Head of Engineering Platforms, you’ll lead the performance, resilience and evolution of a portfolio of General Insurance platforms that underpin Aviva’s UK business. Sitting at the heart of a major transformation, you’ll help integrate Aviva and Direct Line technology estates, modernise platforms to the cloud and embed modern engineering and GenAI-enabled practices. You’ll be accountable for delivering secure, stable and high-performing platforms that support millions of customer interactions while driving improvements in engineering quality, speed and efficiency. Working closely with business, risk and technology partners, you’ll ensure strong operational performance while shaping future platform strategy and capability.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience leading engineering teams within large-scale, regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, application architecture and security controls including Cyber.
• Proven delivery of customer-facing and business-critical systems.
• Comfortable operating across GenAI, Agile, DevOps tools and traditional delivery models.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

What you’ll get for this role:

• National salary circa £125,000 (depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity – 25% 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 each 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. We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com.