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:
* Salary circa £65,000 (based on location, skills, experience and qualifications).
* Bonus opportunity – up to 10% of annual salary, actual amount dependent on performance and Aviva’s objectives.
* Generous pension scheme – Aviva will contribute up to 14% of your contributions.
* 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
* 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 success via the 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.
* Comprehensive wellbeing support and access to a range of tools.
Aviva is for everyone:
We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Even if you don’t tick every box, we still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part‑time and job shares.
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please email us 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.
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