Senior Technology Lead - Data

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Job Description

Senior Technology Lead - Data

Permanent

Location: Edinburgh, Witham or Peterborough (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)  

Salary: A competitive salary from £69,760 – £104,640 depending on the experience you can bring  

Closing date: 8th December 2025 

People are living longer, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings to help people live their best lives. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it – however grand or humble their ambitions. 

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging. 

Technology is at the heart of what we do. We’re on an exciting journey to modernise how we work – upgrading our systems, boosting our data and engineering capabilities and driving innovation. That means combining cutting-edge digital and cloud solutions with our platforms.

We’ve got an opportunity for a Senior Technology Lead to join our Data team. This role is key to shaping and driving our technology strategy, with a strong focus on leadership and impact across the wider Technology function. As a Senior Technology Lead, you’ll focus on the bigger picture – making sure multiple teams are aligned and working smoothly towards shared goals. You’ll help to improve our workflows across teams, spotting opportunities to improve processes or introduce new technology that makes a real difference for our people and our customers. It’s all about making delivery more efficient, driving technical progress, and helping teams succeed together.

In this role, you would be working technologies including Data Pipelines, Data Platforms, AWS, Python and PySpark.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead delivery across multiple teams, ensuring smooth planning, release coordination, and continuous integration.
• Drive governance and performance, tracking key metrics and promoting continuous improvement.
• Manage costs and efficiency, monitoring spends (e.g. cloud usage) and identifying optimisation opportunities.
• Oversee demand and intake, prioritising work transparently and balancing team capacity.
• Provide clear insights, aggregating metrics to support decision-making and executive reporting.
• Support technical delivery, from planning and estimation to hands-on contributions based on your expertise.
• Own service quality, ensuring performance, resilience, and tech debt reduction are built into delivery.
• Lead issue resolution, managing defects and maintaining system stability.
• Enable high-performing teams, embedding agile ways of working and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration.
• Champion continuous improvement, working with engineering and test leads to raise standards and consistency.
• Grow team capability, supporting development, alignment on goals and open communication.
• Lead and support people, providing coaching, feedback, and performance management to help individuals thrive.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Proven experience leading technology projects or teams across multiple domains.
• A knowledge of Data Pipelines, Data Platforms, AWS, Python and PySpark.
• Strong leadership experience - whether leading engineering teams, acting as a scrum master, or managing people directly.
• A strong technical background in one or more technical specialisms, such as data engineering, architecture, DevOps, technical business analysis.
• Hands-on technical expertise, with the ability to contribute to design, development or testing.
• Deep technical understanding, able to lead meaningful technical discussions and speak the language of engineers.
• Proven track record delivering complex projects using modern tech stacks and cloud data platforms.
• Strong stakeholder and upper management engagement skills, with accountability for day-to-day delivery.
• Ability to manage complexity across teams and systems.
• Comfortable working in both Agile and Waterfall environments.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us). 
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
• 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.  To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site.

Make an Impact! If you're passionate about making a difference and want to work in a place where your contributions are valued, apply now. Let's create something amazing together! 

The legal bits 

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.