Innovation and Technology Lead

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Aegon UK Full time

Technology Lead - Data
Permanent
Edinburgh, Witham or Peterborough (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)
A competitive salary from £51,920 – £77,880 depending on the experience you can bring
People are living longer, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings to help people live their best lives. We help people live their best lives . We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.
Technology is at the heart of what we do. We’re on an exciting journey to modernise how we work – upgrading our systems, boosting our data and engineering capabilities and driving innovation. That means combining cutting-edge digital and cloud solutions with our platforms.
We’ve got an exciting opportunity for a Technology Lead to join our Data team. As a Technology Lead, you’ll drive delivery across established teams, ensuring they build and run high-quality data solutions that meets customer and business needs. In this role, you would be working technologies including Data Pipelines, Data Platforms, AWS, Python and PySpark. Bringing together cross-functional teams – aligning engineers, analysts, architects, and other specialists to deliver high-quality solutions. Lead technical planning, estimation and delivery across multiple initiatives.
Contribute to hands-on development, architecture and automation where needed.
Own service quality – ensuring performance, resilience, and tech debt reduction.
Ensure governance and performance tracking through metrics and controls.
Enable high-performing teams by embedding agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and SRE practices.
A technical background in roles such as data engineering, architecture, DevOps, automation, or technical business analysis.
A knowledge of how Data Pipelines, Data Platforms, AWS, Python and PySpark operate.
Experience with build automation, deployment techniques, and production practices like observability and monitoring.
Proven track record delivering complex projects using modern tech stacks and cloud data platforms.
Familiarity with modern engineering practices including Agile, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, and tooling like Bitbucket or GitHub.
Experience building strong relationships across senior stakeholders, product and delivery teams.
We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
~36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments. To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site .
The legal bits
This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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