Senior Data Engineer

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment and wealth management firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help develop a centralized data model for improved insights and reporting. The candidate should be proficient in Microsoft Azure and skilled in data tools such as SQL and Python. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are essential. The role offers flexible working arrangements and numerous benefits including generous annual leave and a substantial pension contribution.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Access to employee discount portal

Qualifications

• Extensive proven experience in data and analysis with a track record of value-add deliveries.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication and organisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality and high impact data models.
• Analyse raw data and develop and maintain datasets.
• Improve data quality and efficiency and build pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.

Skills

Microsoft Azure Stack

SQL

Excel

Python

Data visualisation with Power BI

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving skills

Job description

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 Data Engineering team sits within the wider Data & Analytics function at Aberdeen, delivering high‑quality reporting, analytics, and insights to key stakeholders. The team is focused on ensuring our data can be taken from source systems and joined together to create powerful data sets for use by the analytics team and the wider business.

About the Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer to help develop a new centralised “single view” data model. This will be used to deliver new and improved insight and reporting to our key stakeholders. This opportunity is perfect for someone looking to fast‑track their personal development whilst putting their own stamp on our approach to data and analytics.

This role will play a critical part in driving data‑driven decision‑making and innovation within the company. It requires someone who has strong technical skills whilst being entrepreneurial and proactive, with the ability to develop key stakeholder relationships quickly. You will also need to be a team player and collaborator, working across multi‑discipline teams and be confident working with other technical specialists and analysts.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality and high impact data models.
• Analyse raw data and develop and maintain datasets.
• Improve data quality and efficiency and build pipelines.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.
• Work closely with all stakeholders, ensuring they are managed effectively, and that communication is timely and informative.
• Identify new ways of using our data sources and help shape our data strategy.
• Mentor junior team members and the wider business community.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Expert in the Microsoft Azure Stack.
• Experience using data tools such as SQL, Excel, or Python.
• Experience with data & analytics platforms (e.g. MS Fabric)
• Expertise in delivering data models within data visualisation tools, ideally with Power BI exposure.
• Strong communication and organisation skills.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines.
• A passion for continuous learning and self‑improvement.
• Extensive proven experience in data and analysis with a track record of value‑add deliveries.

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.