SeniorFull TimeEN
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
Aberdeen’s Platform & Enablement Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office; this is responsible for managing the Corporate Tribes infrastructure and integrations. This will support all Squads within the Corporate Tribe with their continuously evolving requirements, creating a solid foundation for all business Unit applications.
About the role
The Senior Integration Engineer works closely with product teams, architects, and platform engineers to design, build, and support integration solutions across our Azure estate. You will be responsible for enabling secure, scalable, and event-driven communication between systems using a range of Azure-native services. This role is key to ensuring our cloud platforms are connected, automated, and aligned with modern integration patterns.
Key Responsibilities
Integration Design & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of integration solutions using Azure services such as Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and Event Hub. Collaborate with architects to define patterns for event-driven and API-based integrations.
Data Movement & Orchestration: Develop data pipelines and orchestrations using Azure Data Factory and Abinitio to support batch and near-real-time data integration scenarios
Automation & CI/CD: Implement automated deployment and testing of integration components using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Bicep or Terraform.
Monitoring & Operations: Set up and maintain observability for integration components using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics. Support incident response and root cause analysis for integration-related issues.
Security & Compliance: Apply security best practices across integration solutions, including authentication, encryption, and access control. Ensure compliance with internal and external standards (e.g., ISO, GDPR).
Support & Troubleshooting: Provide 2nd/3rd line support for integration solutions. Troubleshoot performance, connectivity, and configuration issues across cloud environments.
Mentoring and providing guidance to junior engineers.
Candidate requirements
Experience in designing and delivering integrations using Azure services such as Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hub, and API Management.
Experience Azure Blob Storage, Key Vaults and Monitoring and Logging.
Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and integration patterns (e.g., pub/sub, request/response, ETL).
Familiarity with Azure Data Factory, Ab initio for data & ODI for movement and transformation of data.
Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python).
Understanding of DevOps practices and tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD).
Knowledge of security and identity management in Azure (e.g., OAuth2, Managed Identities, RBAC).
Preferred Qualifications:
Microsoft certifications such as Azure Developer Associate
Experience with hybrid integration scenarios (on-prem to cloud).
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform).
Experience with monitoring and diagnostics in distributed systems.
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.
