Workload Automation Engineer (Platforms and Engineering)

Aberdeen; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wealth and investments group in Edinburgh is looking for a Workload Automation Engineer to manage workload scheduling tools. The role focuses on enhancing platform performance and integrating with various business systems. Required qualifications include certifications in Autosys or similar tools, and experience in cloud environments. The company offers competitive benefits including 40 days’ leave and a generous pension contribution.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits like gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in ServiceNow.
• Experience with cloud-based scheduling.
• Ability to automate and manage workflows.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and management of workload scheduling tools.
• Ensure platform performance, security, and resilience.
• Integrate key business systems with the automation platform.

Skills

Experience with Broadcom Autosys

Experience with BMC Control-M platforms

Strong analytical skills

Proficient in PowerShell

Familiarity with ITIL processes

Education

Certifications in Autosys, Control-M, or Redwood RMJ

Tools

SQL Server

Azure DevOps

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 Role

This Workload Automation Engineer role is responsible for supporting the design, implementation, and management of our Enterprise Workload Scheduling Automation tool which is used across key batch workloads and business platforms. This role would be initially focused managing our current Autosys toolset – Autosys Workload Automation and Automation Analytics and Intelligence running on our premise and cloud architecture.

The Workload Automation Engineer would ensure the platform is performant, scalable, secure, resilient and integrated with our business applications and modern workflows. The role would build the platform integrations into key business systems and support the domain teams, providing technical guidance on workload creation, tuning and troubleshooting.

Experience in other Workload Automation tools like BMC or Redwood is also beneficial. A key focus would be on the future strategic direction of the tooling, driving towards a Modern Orchestration capability aligned with our Cloud Transformation strategy looking to reduce time to market using Agile Tooling and DevSecOps.

The engineer would look to optimise performance, ensure workloads are cost‑efficient and manage the total cost of ownership across the platform and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Proven experience with Broadcom Autosys, Redwood RMJ or BMC Control‑M platforms
• Ability to automate, schedule and manage workflows including batch processes, file transfers and end to end business processes
• Strong understanding of batch processing, job dependencies, and scheduling best practices
• Proficiency in scripting languages including PowerShell
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and enterprise monitoring tools
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills to address operational challenges.
• Strong understanding of security concepts, risk, disaster recovery, software compliance and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with SLA Monitoring, real time alerts and centralised dashboards
• Experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Core Infrastructure Skills in:
  • Core Operating Systems and technologies – Microsoft, Linux, DNS, LDAP
  • SQL Server
  • Base Azure knowledge

About The Candidate

• Certifications in Autosys, Control‑M, or Redwood RMJ.
• Experience with cloud‑based scheduling or hybrid environments
• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in ServiceNow
• Knowledge of Agile Framework
• Familiarity with financial industry regulations
• Experience with Secure Message File Transfer systems (MFT)
• Can create and maintain relationships with internal leadership and key business stakeholders, as well as third parties or suppliers
• Knowledge of Azure technologies including Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Fabric

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.