Junior Engineer (Data)

Aberdeen; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investments group in Edinburgh is seeking a Junior Engineer (Data) to support the design and implementation of a decentralized data architecture. The role involves developing a data cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Snowflake and Azure and ensuring platform scalability and security. Ideal candidates should have cloud deployment experience, strong communication skills, and an understanding of data governance. This position features a blended working approach with excellent benefits including 40 days of annual leave and private healthcare.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Understanding of Data Mesh and its underlying principles.
• Experience with cloud deployment and security patterns.
• Strong understanding of security concepts, including threat modelling.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of a Data Mesh architecture.
• Build platform capabilities for Data Products.
• Develop and maintain centralized data cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Understanding of Data Mesh

Experience with cloud deployment

Competency in scripting languages

Experience with Azure DevOps

Strong communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Microsoft Azure

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.

• 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 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.

About The Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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).

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• 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

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.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.