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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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Delivering measurable business outcomes across the investment lifecycle through technology, data, and analytics.
- Ensuring technology enhances investment decision-making, client engagement, and commercial growth.
- Simplifying the technology estate and operating within Aviva Investors’ risk and regulatory framework.
- Driving high-quality insight and confident, explainable decision-making across the front-to-back investment and distribution lifecycle.
- Translating strategy into execution, ensuring enterprise prioritisation, governance, and value realisation.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Technology
- Data
- Analytics
- Investment Technology
- Front Office
- Portfolio Management
- Trading
- Research
- Investment Risk
- Distribution Technology
- Marketing Technology
- AI capabilities
- Data Platforms
- Data Engineering
- Leadership
- Commercial Acumen
- Strategic Thinking
Location
- London
Work Type
- Smart working (at least 50% in offices)
- Flexible working
- Part time
- Job shares
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Discretionary bonus opportunity
Benefits
- Generous pension scheme
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit
- Up to 40% discount on Aviva products
- Retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through Matching Share Plan
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Parental leave
- Carer’s leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- 3 annual volunteering days
About the Company
- Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc, bringing together broad investment capabilities to deliver client-focused solutions worldwide.
- Managing £253 billion in assets, with a 1,000-strong team across nine countries.
- Working together and acting responsibly are central to how they operate.
- Focus on sustainable investing reflects a commitment to doing the right thing for clients and communities.
- Aviva Investors is the asset manager for Aviva, the UK’s leading insurance, wealth and retirement business.
- Responsibility is built into their investment processes, creating solutions fit for the future.
- They have the capital, scale and influence to drive positive change in the world.
- They bring together expertise from over 1,500 people in 14 countries connecting seamlessly as one team.
Equal Opportunity
- Aviva is for everyone: We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences.
- We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.