Digital Engineer
abrdn · Edinburgh, United Kingdom · 1d ago
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
The Digital Engineering team develops and supports the digital platforms, services and integrations that power Aberdeen’s client experiences. Working across modern web technologies, cloud services and enterprise platforms, the team enables secure, scalable and reliable digital journeys. Collaboration, continuous improvement and high engineering standards are central to how the team works, helping our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
Based in Edinburgh, this permanent role offers the opportunity to work across front-end applications, back-end services, cloud infrastructure and enterprise integrations. You will develop, deliver and support digital solutions that provide exceptional client experiences while building your skills across a broad technology stack. Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, UX specialists and business stakeholders, you will solve technical challenges, contribute to engineering excellence and help shape modern digital services. This is an exciting opportunity to expand your expertise in cloud technologies, automation, testing and digital engineering while investing in your tomorrow.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and support digital applications, APIs, services and integrations across Aberdeen’s digital estate, delivering secure and scalable solutions.
- Build and support cloud-hosted applications within Microsoft Azure while maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment processes.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, UX teams and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality digital experiences and business outcomes.
- Monitor live services, investigate incidents, resolve issues and contribute to improvements that reduce recurring problems.
- Produce technical documentation, participate in code reviews and help improve engineering standards, tooling and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright and integrate quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
About the Candidate
- Experience developing and supporting production digital applications using modern engineering practices.
- Experience building REST APIs or back-end services, ideally using C# and .NET.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Azure, Git, GitHub and CI/CD automation.
- Experience creating and maintaining automated tests using Playwright or similar frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an understanding of security, compliance and agile delivery practices.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate effectively and learn new technologies.
Desirable criteria: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Terraform, Sitecore XM Cloud, Vercel, Storybook, GraphQL, CodeQL, SonarQube, SEO and performance optimisation, and experience working with enterprise-scale digital platforms.
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.