Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Integrations)

abrdn Inc.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days' annual leave

Employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits portal

Job summary

Aberdeen plc is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join its Digital Engineering team in the UK. You will shape platforms, applications and integrations powering our digital products.

The role demands leadership across design, development and production support, with a strong focus on secure, scalable, observable solutions. We value deep Azure expertise, advanced C#/.NET skills and a collaborative, delivery-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including maintainable design, testing, code review and continuous improvement.
• Extensive experience designing and securing APIs, including REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and service-to-service communication.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience covering application hosting, networking, monitoring and integration services.
• Advanced C# and .NET development skills, including asynchronous programming, dependency injection and automated testing.
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, distributed systems and secure application architecture.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong SQL skills, including data modelling, performance optimisation and data-quality analysis.
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery within Agile teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting team development through coaching and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of applications, APIs and integration solutions from design through to production support.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and guide delivery decisions aligned with architecture, security and resilience standards.
• Manage technical dependencies, risks and priorities while collaborating with stakeholders across engineering and delivery teams.
• Design, build and support secure, observable APIs and integrations across Aberdeen and third-party platforms.
• Develop reliable data processing and reconciliation capabilities with strong controls, traceability and data quality standards.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation using GitHub and modern tooling.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure and compliant with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement through operational excellence, incident management and root cause analysis.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure cloud

API design

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Terraform

OpenAPI

Azure Data Factory

Playwright

Job description

Job Description

About Aberdeen

Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor.

About the Department

Digital Engineering delivers the platforms, applications and services that power customer and colleague experiences across Aberdeen. Working closely with product, security and business teams, the department modernises technology, strengthens resilience and supports innovation. The team promotes collaboration, continuous improvement and engineering excellence, helping enable our clients to be better investors.

Role Overview

We're looking for a proactive and technically strong Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join Aberdeen's Digital Engineering team. In this role, you'll help shape the platforms, applications and integrations that power our digital products and services.

This is a high-impact opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges across enterprise-scale platforms. You'll lead the design, development and support of applications, APIs and backend integrations, translating business requirements into secure, scalable and maintainable solutions.

Working closely with architects, product teams and engineers, you'll take ownership of key technical workstreams and drive engineering excellence across the software lifecycle. Your expertise will include C# .NET, Microsoft Azure, GitHub and modern DevOps practices, with a strong focus on automation, resilience, observability and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of applications, APIs and integration solutions from design through to production support.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and guide delivery decisions aligned with architecture, security and resilience standards.
• Manage technical dependencies, risks and priorities while collaborating with stakeholders across engineering and delivery teams.
• Design, build and support secure, observable APIs and integrations across Aberdeen and third-party platforms.
• Develop reliable data processing and reconciliation capabilities with strong controls, traceability and data quality standards.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation using GitHub and modern tooling.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure and compliant with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement through operational excellence, incident management and root cause analysis.

About You

You're an experienced engineer who enjoys tackling complex technical and data challenges, building secure and reliable services that deliver measurable business and client value.

You combine strong technical expertise with a practical, collaborative approach, working confidently across application development, cloud platforms and integration technologies. You're motivated by modernising platforms, improving automation and helping teams deliver high-quality outcomes.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including maintainable design, testing, code review and continuous improvement.
• Extensive experience designing and securing APIs, including REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and service-to-service communication.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience covering application hosting, networking, monitoring and integration services.
• Advanced C# and .NET development skills, including asynchronous programming, dependency injection and automated testing.
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, distributed systems and secure application architecture.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong SQL skills, including data modelling, performance optimisation and data-quality analysis.
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery within Agile teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting team development through coaching and code reviews.

Desirable Skills

• Cloud resource provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code, ideally Terraform.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Test automation with Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience building orchestration and batches using Azure Data Factory.
• Experience building user-focused frontend experiences with React.

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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.

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.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our action, 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.

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