Engineer, Aberdeen
Data
Savings & investment company
Open for applications
Savings & investment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable its clients to be better investors.
Role
Who you are
- Understanding of Data Mesh and its underlying principles
- Experience with cloud deployment and security patterns, including Snowflake, Azure, Fabric Entra, DBT Cloud, and data warehousing, and competency in a range of scripting languages (e.g. SQL, PowerShell, Python)
- Experience with Azure DevOps as a CI/CD platform and exposure to working in an agile environment
- Strong understanding of security concepts, including threat modelling, risk assessment, and vulnerability management
- Ability to conduct comprehensive risk assessments and implement appropriate security controls
- Familiarity with financial industry regulations and the ability to ensure compliance throughout the development process
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal), including the ability to adapt style to a nontechnical audience, share expertise and best practices, and mentor and coach others
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business and data by utilising a Data Mesh architecture operating model to help move to a federated model of data development, delivery, and ownership within Aberdeen
- With strong foundations already in place, we aim to unlock greater value from data, drive automation and AI-powered efficiencies, fuel innovation, and support scalable growth - all built on a continuously evolving modern data platform
- As a Junior Engineer (Data), you will be responsible for supporting the design, implementation, and management of a decentralized data architecture based on the principles of Data Mesh
- This role leverages a Modern Data Stack of technologies such as Snowflake, DBT, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric to build out patterns for Data Products that empower domain teams to own, access, and manage their data autonomously via Data Products and Cloud Technologies
- The Junior Engineer (Data) ensures the platform is scalable, secure, and performant, providing self-service capabilities whilst maintaining governance across a distributed data landscape
- Support the Platform Technical lead in design and implementation of a Data Mesh architecture, enabling decentralized data ownership across various domains
- Build platform capabilities to support the creation and management of Data Products, allowing domain teams to own and operate their data
- Develop and maintain the centralized data cloud infrastructure using Snowflake, DBT, and Microsoft Azure, and automate data pipeline workflows, providing easy integration with data analytics and BI platforms like Power BI
- Work with the Data Governance teams to help enforce data governance policies, including data quality, lineage, and access control, ensuring compliance across all Data Products as part of the Data Platform team standards
- Implement data infrastructure automation to streamline the creation and management of data resources, ensuring that domain teams can independently build, operate, and maintain their data products without relying on centralized teams
- Ensure the platform is compliant with data security policies and implement role-based access control (RBAC) to ensure data privacy within the decentralized architecture, maintaining adherence to industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
Application process
- End Date: November 1, 2025
Our take
Aberdeen, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen and Abrdn, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
Over the years, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by making it simpler, more data-led and to require less admin. This suggests that Aberdeen is keen to keep pace with tech developments across the investment space and position itself as an innovator.
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Company benefits
- Salary sacrifice pension arrangement
- Private health insurance
- Life Assurance
- 40 days holiday if you work full time
- Dental insurance
- Health assessments
- Critical illness cover
- Will writing
- Power of attorney
- Financial Guidance and Advice
- Holiday buy
- Discounted gym memberships
- Cycle to work
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Electric car lease scheme
- Travel insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Share Plans
- Give As You Earn (GAYE)
- Volunteering
- Long service awards
- Subscription to Interactive Investor
- Subscription to Finimize
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Supportive parental leave policies , delivered regionally (e.g. 26 weeks paid leave in UK for primary and secondary caregivers)
- Employee discount site
- Discounted parking
Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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