Engineer (Oracle & Cloud Apps)

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in Edinburgh is seeking an experienced Engineer to join their Enterprise Applications team. The role demands expertise in Oracle ERP and cloud technologies, focused on building scalable applications and services. Ideal candidates will have programming skills, particularly in SQL and Python, and a commitment to collaborative practices within a cloud environment. Join a dynamic team offering competitive benefits and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Employee discount portal access

Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards.
• Proficiency in programming and scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building scalable microservices using Azure.
• Write maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
• Support CI/CD implementation and test automation.

Skills

Oracle ERP Cloud

API integrations

GitHub

SQL

Python

Azure

DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Overview

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, enabling individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Adviser: Provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Investments: 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 Enterprise Applications team is dedicated to designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise solutions to support our business operations and goals. The team focuses on leveraging cloud technologies, modern engineering practices and collaborative Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality, scalable and secure applications and services.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineer to join our Enterprise Applications team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Oracle ERP and EPM products, cloud technologies, GitHub, API integrations and IAM including SSO. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise solutions to support our business operations and goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in building scalable and secure RESTful microservices and cloud-native applications using Microsoft Azure.
• Write clean, secure, maintainable code and participate in code reviews to learn best practices and improve your technical skills.
• Support the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and test automation, gaining experience with tools like Azure DevOps and JIRA.
• Work closely with developers, designers, and product managers to understand requirements and contribute to effective technical solutions.
• Learn how to design and adapt applications for Azure, exploring event-driven architectures and cloud service capabilities.
• Begin exploring AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and support smarter engineering.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Experience with Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud (Planning, Financial Consolidation, Account Reconciliation).
• Knowledge of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Oracle SOA Suite.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Azure.
• Proficiency in version control and DevOps tools like GitHub, Git Actions, Jenkins, Terraform.
• Programming and scripting skills in SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Python, Shell scripting.
• Experience with data and reporting tools such as Oracle Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Tableau.
• Understanding of security and compliance standards including OAuth2, SAML, RBAC, encryption standards.

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.

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. We should also note that if you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.