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We are hiring to our Aviva Services Excellence Centre! Take a look at our job description - maybe it suits you or one of your friends? \nAs a Date Engineering Technical Lead you will play a critical leadership role in shaping Aviva’s enterprise data foundations, ensuring data is engineered to be trusted, scalable and accessible across the organisation. The role is to lead a cross-functional engineering team in building a cloud-native Operational Data Store (ODS) platform.\nYou will take ownership of technical delivery, leading developers to build scalable, event-driven data pipelines and microservices using Kafka (MSK), AWS Glue, ECS, and containerised applications (Spring Boot / Python). 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Be sure to apply!\nAviva is for everyone!\nWe’ve been ranked the #1 Best Workplace in Poland for a second year in a row and a top choice for Millennials by Great Place to Work®!\nAs a signatory to the Diversity Charter, Aviva applies a policy of equal treatment and creates a work environment that is friendly to people with disabilities. We do not require from candidates the date of birth, marital status and attached photos to your CV. We encourage all individuals regardless of gender to apply.\nMost of our people are smart working - spending also time in our office - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.\nWe’re inclusive - we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.\nExcited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. 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