Data Security Engineer Salary circa £65,000 subject to skills and experience Locations: Leatherhead/ Eastleigh/ Bristol/ Norwich/ Perth/ York (UK) About the Role As a Data Platforms and SaaS Security Engineer, you will play a key hands-on role in implementing and operating security controls across Aviva's enterprise data platforms and SaaS environments. You will support continuous security monitoring, ensure alignment with security standards, and help strengthen the organisation's security posture across platforms such as Snowflake and critical SaaS services. You will also engineer and automate security checks, including creating and maintaining custom API queries and scripts where required to assess configuration, access, and control effectiveness beyond standard tooling. Working within a collaborative Application and Platform Security function, you will contribute to SSPM tooling deployment, implementation, risk identification, remediation activities, and security reporting to enable scalable and compliant security operations. Experience supporting continuous compliance monitoring against frameworks such as CIS, NIST, and financial services regulatory standards. Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate security risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Skills & Experience Proven hands-on experience securing enterprise Data Platforms such as Snowflake, Dataiku, Salesforce and/or SaaS applications within large-scale or regulated environments. Practical knowledge of posture management tools such as SSPM and PaaS/SaaS security controls, including configuration management, posture monitoring, and risk identification. Experience writing code or scripts to interact with APIs, including building custom API queries for security and compliance checks using languages such as Python, JavaScript, or similar. Practical experience consuming SaaS, cloud, or data-platform APIs to extract configuration, identity, access, or security-relevant data. Strong understanding of identity and access management, data access governance, and shared responsibility models in SaaS ecosystems. 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. Salary: circa £65,000 based (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications) Bonus opportunity 10% 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 Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be 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 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 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