Senior Digital Workplace Engineer

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Aberdeen Standard Investments seeks a Senior Engineer for their Digital Workplace Engineering team. This pivotal role involves designing and implementing digital solutions, enhancing operational efficiencies, and ensuring security compliance. Successful candidates will have a strong background in M365 technologies and strategic leadership, contributing to digital transformation within a collaborative environment.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Exposure to industry frameworks/benchmarks such as NIST and CIS.
• Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring others.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end design and implementation of solutions/services.
• Act as a key escalation point for operational incidents.
• Oversee platform administration and implement governance.

Skills

M365 administration

Design skills

Strategic leadership

Security posture management

Identity Governance

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 Digital Workplace Engineering team is a key capability within the Digital Workplace Services function. The team works collaboratively across the Group COO, business stakeholders, CoEs & Product Owners. It is responsible for the creation and delivery of our Digital Workplace technology roadmap, maintaining a modern, secure and cost-efficient service. We are passionate about enhancing colleague experience and delivering an evergreen service to our business.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly capable and forward-thinking Senior Engineer to help within Aberdeen’s Digital Workplace Engineering team. This role willinvolve working closely with stakeholders across the business. This role is central to our digital transformation strategy, enabling scalable, secure, and innovative capabilities that support both operational efficiency and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the end-to-end design and implementation of solutions / services; hands on engineering and design.

• Define and uphold the standards, patterns, and policies that guide our use of M365 & Digital Workplace Services, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and regulatory expectations.

• Responsible for acting as a key escalation point for operational incidents impacting Digital Workplace Services.

• Work closely with engineering squads to advise on solutions, assess new platform capabilities, and ensure services are robust, maintainable, and future-ready.

• Oversee the administration of our platforms, implementing governance and risk controls such as data loss prevention, environment strategy, and security policies.

• Proactively assess our security posture, ensuring alignment to key industry benchmarks such as CIS.

• Lead the technical approvals board for the Digital Workplace service function.

• Interpret Digital Experience Monitoring (DEX) data to proactively enhance technology experiences across our services.

• Ensuring solutions and products are supportable and serviceable by operations teams.

• Provision of key insight into industry trends and developments, with resulting recommendations through evaluation and proving of new technology.

• Responding to internal and external audits in relation to regulatory requirements and being able to help manage the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) controls.

• Ensure industry best practices and methodologies are adopted where appropriate in proposed solutions.

About the Candidate

• Exposure to industry frameworks/benchmarks such as NIST and CIS.

• Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring others.

• Proactive strategic leadership, demonstrable skills in the design, communication and delivery of end user technologies.

• Ability to engage and communicate at all levels from technical SMEs to Executive Management

• Experience working in partnership with a Tier 1 Systems Integrator, in a blended model.

• Ability to quickly learn, implement and utilize new technologies.

Technical Skills

The candidate is expected to have a proven track record in the use of the technologies below, preferably in a Financial Services organisation

• M365 administration Teams (inc Phone & Global Telephony), SharePoint Online, Purview, Exchange Online (Hybrid).

• Experience working with EntraID; Conditional Access, SSO and Enterprise Applications

• Solid understanding of Identity Governance & Administration within the context of a highly regulated environment.

• Azure Virtual Desktop Administration (inc Azure Networking)

• Experiencing working with Endpoint Configuration/ Management & Application Delivery technologies such as Intune & MEM.

• Experience implementing IaC / DSC via Terraform to manage M365 & EntraID.

• Azure Virtual Desktop (inc Networking)

• Defender for Endpoint experience with vulnerability management, EDR, ASR, Exposure Management & creating action plans to improve security posture.

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.