Senior Data Designer, Aviva
Erwin Data Modeler
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related Information Technology area
- Must have extensive experience in data design using ERWIN; and hands on experience working with relational, dimensional and data vault data modeling techniques
- Minimum 8 years’ of experience successfully leading Data modeling & design with expertise in building large-scale enterprise data models
- Solid grasp/experience with data technologies & tools (Snowflake, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Informatica, DBT cloud, Airflow, AWS Glue etc.,)
- Proficient in industry-standard data modelling methodologies
- Excellent teamwork and communication abilities
- Excellent consultative, facilitative, and consensus-building abilities
- Proven expertise in developing relational databases in a corporate context
- Demonstrated expertise in developing models for Business Intelligence solutions
- Excellent analytical, data profiling, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent oral and written communication abilities
- Advanced SQL knowledge
- Thorough understanding of modelling methodology and procedures
- Thorough understanding of facilitation and dispute resolution methods
- Knowledge of Business Intelligence products
- Outstanding knowledge and experience in ETL with any of the ETL tool product suite
- Experience establishing documentation standards frameworks for data quality, data governance, stewardship and metadata management
- Ability to foundationally understand complex business process driving technical systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Insurance knowledge an asset
- Knowledge of ER modeling, big data, enterprise data, and physical data models
- Familiarity with data modeling software such as SAP PowerDesigner, Microsoft Visio, or ERWIN Data Modeler
- Solid attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a collaborative and resourceful Senior Data Designer for our fast-paced Enterprise Data Services function at Aviva Canada
- You will be working with the data, business, data science & other teams and help build enterprise level data model, standards, policies etc
- You will be responsible for being a liaison between various business units and technical data teams
- You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all areas including requirements, documentation, data analysis, and data design
- Support data transformation initiatives to improve Aviva's direct-to-consumer business, data science capabilities and digital presence
- This role will be part of and a member of our Information Technology Enterprise Data Services Group
- You'll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all many areas including building data design frameworks, modeling and metadata integration frameworks, modeling frameworks, documentations and any other related data design capabilities
- Aviva has embarked on an exciting journey to modernize, craft, and build a next generation of data platform to support the growing data needs for data engineering, analytics, and Data Science
- This position reports to AVP – Data Design
- Work with the ETL data engineering team & business intelligence team to understand requirements for the database design and model the data as per the needs of business
- Work with the ML engineering team and understand the needs for ML models and appropriately build the data models for their feature stores
- Be in charge of developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models and implementing RDBMS, operational data stores (ODS), data marts, JSON/XML schemas and data lakes schemas on target platforms (SQL/NoSQL)
- Manage the extension of existing data architecture and optimize data query performance through best practices. The applicant must be capable of working both alone and cooperatively
- Collaborate with the development team to design and build the database model
- Work in collaboration with data engineering teams in documenting the source to target mappings
- Experience working with relational, dimensional and data vault data modeling techniques
- Understand the company’s data migration needs
- Work with the development team to implement the migration rules related to data
- Work with data scientists to understand feature engineering needs and design the required logical & physical data models in the underlying ecosystem
- Help determine data security needs and work with security or infra teams to implement security solutions
Our take
With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Care
- Commitment
- Community
- Confidence
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(CEO, not founder)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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