Data Platform Engineer

Data Platform Engineer

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 capitalize on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

A new Data Tribe has been formed within our Investments Product Model, uniting our core data capabilities under a single team led by a new Chief Data Officer. With strong foundations already in place, the focus is now on accelerating data accessibility and availability across the business. By partnering with business-aligned Tribes, 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.

About the Role

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will support the design, implementation, and management of a decentralized data architecture based on Data Mesh principles. You will work with technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Fabric to build scalable, secure, and high-performing platform capabilities. Your work will empower domain teams to autonomously own, access, and manage their data via self-service Data Products, while maintaining governance across a distributed data landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Mesh Architecture & Implementation

• Data Platform Development & Automation

• Data Product Design & Governance

• Cloud Data Warehousing & Transformation

• Security & Compliance

• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Familiarity with Data Mesh principles and decentralized data architectures.

• Proven expertise with cloud technologies, including Snowflake, Azure, and dbt.

• Competency in scripting languages such as SQL, PowerShell, and Python.

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline management and Terraform for infrastructure automation.

• Strong understanding of data security, governance, and compliance standards.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• A continuous learning mindset and a proactive, detail-oriented approach to problem-solving.

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.

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.

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.

We're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.