Aviva
Head of Technology & Data Platforms
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Head of Technology & Data Platforms
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At Aviva Investors, our expertise is in matching the right investment approach to each client’s unique needs. As the global asset management business of Aviva plc, we bring together our broad investment capabilities to deliver client-focused solutions worldwide.
Managing £253 billion in assets, our 1,000-strong team across nine countries is brilliantly connected, collaborative, and focused on delivering outcomes that truly matter.
Working together and acting responsibly are central to how we operate. We take time to understand what our clients want to achieve and design solutions that last - strengthening every portfolio with diverse perspectives and integrated thinking.
Our long track record in sustainable investing reflects our commitment to doing the right thing for clients and communities alike.
Everyone at Aviva Investors plays a part in creating an exceptional client experience. With the scale and influence to make a real difference, we take our responsibility seriously.
Join us and you’ll find an inclusive, supportive environment where your contribution is valued, high performance is recognised, and you’re empowered to shape your development.
We are recruiting for a Head of Technology & Data Platforms to join our team. This is a great opportunity for someone who has senior leadership experience delivering technology outcomes within asset management or financial services.
With a global remit spanning operations, transformation, and IT, our COO team ensures an exceptional client experience. Whether it’s optimising key processes, managing relationships with strategic partners, launching innovative new products, or onboarding clients seamlessly, every project is an opportunity to drive efficiency and innovation at scale.
A bit about the role:
The Head of Technology & Data Platforms is a senior leadership role accountable for delivering measurable business outcomes across the investment lifecycle through technology, data, and analytics.
Reporting directly to the CIO and forming part of the Technology Leadership Team, this role ensures technology enhances investment decision-making, client engagement, and commercial growth, while simplifying the technology estate and operating within Aviva Investors’ risk and regulatory framework.
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The remit spans Investment Technology (Front Office, Research, Analytics, and Investment Risk), Distribution and Marketing Technology, and the commercial activation of platforms, analytics, and AI capabilities.
With end-to-end accountability for data platforms, data engineering, and analytics enablement, the role drives high-quality insight and confident, explainable decision-making across the front-to-back investment and distribution lifecycle.
Acting as a single point of accountability, the role translates strategy into execution, ensuring enterprise prioritisation, governance, and value realisation.
The new role reflects the growing strategic importance of technology in delivering growth, efficiency, client outcomes, and leadership capability within the CIO function. It reflects an expanded scope aligned to the growing strategic importance of technology in delivering growth, efficiency, client outcomes, and leadership capability within the CIO function.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
- Proven experience leading Front Office Investment Technology functions, supporting portfolio management, trading, research, analytics, and investment risk capabilities.
- A track record of developing and delivering technology, data, and analytics strategies that drive business growth, operational efficiency, and improved client outcomes.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale transformation and operating within complex, regulated, and outsourced technology environments, with accountability for governance, risk, and value delivery.
- Significant senior leadership experience within asset management or a regulated financial services environment, with a strong understanding of the investment lifecycle.
- Executive-level leadership capability, commercial acumen, and strategic thinking, with the credibility and potential to be considered a future successor within a CIO leadership pipeline.
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:
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- Competitive salary (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications).
- Discretionary bonus opportunity - depending on individual performance and Aviva Investors’!
- 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!
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
- Make your money go further with 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 annual volunteering days to help others.
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.
Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
To find out more about working at Aviva, take a look here.
We’d love it if you could submit your application online but if you require an alternative method of applying, please email us at GlobalRecruitment@avivainvestors.com.
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