Engineer (Business Aligned Apps) - ITO Asset Mgmt bei abrdn
abrdn · Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Professional
- Optionales Büro in Edinburgh
Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
As an Engineer (Business-Aligned Applications), you will be a member of the Development Chapter within the Asset Management Tribe, reporting to the Development Chapter Lead and working as part of a cross-functional team. This role is uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and business, supporting rapid solution delivery for investment professionals, analysts, and operational teams.
About the Role
You will work with business stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver pragmatic, high-impact solutions in a fast-paced, Agile environment. This is a hands-on role that blends software engineering with analytical thinking and problem-solving. You will be expected to work across a diverse technology stack - including Python, APIs, Power BI, and low-code tools - to build and iterate on solutions that drive real business outcomes.
As an engineer, you will help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety, thrives on collaboration, and is comfortable switching between development, analysis, and stakeholder engagement. You will be empowered to take ownership of problems, propose creative solutions, and deliver working software quickly and iteratively.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain business-aligned applications and services that support investment operations, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Build and support data integration and transformation pipelines using tools such as Azure Data Factory, SQL, and Power Platform, and work across a broad and evolving technology stack, adapting quickly to new tools and platforms as needed.
Collaborate directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver rapid, fit-for-purpose solutions in an Agile environment.
Develop lightweight applications, scripts, and dashboards using Python, Power BI, and other low-code/no-code tools to support operational and analytical needs.
Support data analysis and reporting initiatives by building queries, visualisations, and automation pipelines, ensuring solutions are well-documented, observable, and production-ready, with appropriate logging and monitoring in place.
Apply engineering best practices, including test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure coding standards, and participate in code reviews, pair programming, and collaborative problem-solving.
Explore and apply AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to improve engineering efficiency and solution quality and drive continuous improvement in development tools, processes, and team ways of working.
About the Candidate
We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, Agile environment, is self-motivated, and enjoys working closely with business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. You should be comfortable working across a broad technology stack, balancing hands-on development with analytical thinking, and adapting quickly to changing priorities.
You will be expected to quickly understand complex business requirements - even when working to tight deadlines - and translate them into practical, scalable solutions. The ideal candidate will be able to balance short-term tactical delivery with a long-term strategic mindset, ensuring solutions are both effective and sustainable.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, as you will frequently liaise with internal and external data providers to ensure accurate and complete data flows into our investment models and reporting platforms.
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
Proven software development experience with a focus on delivering business-aligned solutions in an Asset Management or Finance Technology environment
Flexibility across technologies and drive to learn about the business and future technology
Strong understanding of DevOps tooling and code deployment
Solid foundation in SQL and Python
Exposure to Power Platform, including Power BI and Power Automate
Familiarity with Azure DevOps (or equivalent), CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery
Innovative approach to problem solving, solutions, and technology
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
