Senior Digital Workplace Engineer

abrdn; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm located in Edinburgh is looking for a Senior Engineer to join their Digital Workplace Engineering team. This role involves designing and implementing Digital Workplace solutions and requires strong leadership and technical skills. The ideal candidate will have experience with M365 and the ability to engage at all organizational levels. Competitive benefits including generous annual leave and a strong pension contribution are offered.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits including gym discounts

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions for Digital Workplace Services.
• Define standards and policies for M365 and Digital Services.
• Lead technical approvals board for Digital Workplace.

Skills

Proactive strategic leadership

Ability to engage and communicate at all levels

Technical delivery experience

Tools

M365 administration

EntraID

Intune

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12.08.2025

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.