Data Engineering Tech Lead (MDM)

About the role

Aviva is hiring a Data Engineering Technical Lead for its Services Excellence Centre in Warsaw. You will lead the engineering and delivery of a cloud-native Master & Reference Data (MDM/RDM) platform, ensuring master and reference data is trusted, governed, scalable and reusable across the organisation. The role leads a cross-functional engineering team building event-driven data pipelines and API-driven data services.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor data and backend engineers, turn data architecture and domain models into designs, and drive coding standards, CI/CD and quality assurance
• Build mastering and matching workflows, Kafka / MSK event-driven pipelines, AWS Glue ETL jobs and containerised microservices (ECS, Spring Boot / Python)
• Implement end-to-end master data lifecycles, event-driven and API-based integrations, and config-driven processing (YAML-based mappings)
• Work with governance tools such as Collibra to ensure metadata, lineage and quality visibility
• Embed data quality rules, validation frameworks and stewardship workflows, and support reference data management (hierarchies, code sets, taxonomies)

Required profile

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, as a lead or senior engineer stepping into leadership
• Experience with Reltio, Informatica MDM, Profisee, SAP MDM or similar platforms (preferred)
• Experience with Kafka or other event-driven architectures
• Strong understanding of MDM concepts, data modelling, data quality and governance, and integration patterns
• Ability to define reusable frameworks and factory-model onboarding patterns
• Nice to have: insurance data domain knowledge, ACORD standards, metadata tools (Collibra, Erwin), config-driven architectures (Avro, Schema Registry)

Required skills

• AWS (S3, ECS, Glue, Aurora/Postgres) preferred; other cloud platforms considered
• Java, Python or another modern language
• Kafka / MSK, Spring Boot, PySpark

What we offer

• Hybrid working from Poland with a few days in the Warsaw office per month
• Contract of employment, performance bonus and private medical care
• Cafeteria benefits, employer-funded group insurance and Employee Shares Plan
• Parental leave for the second parent, extra day off for birthdays, volunteering leave and wellbeing leave after 10 years
• Psychological support, e-learning access, referral programme and disability entitlements