Job Description

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save, and invest for their futures. Through the expertise, insight, and innovation of our team, we help clients create more ways for their money to make an impact. Our focus is on delivering outcomes that go beyond financial returns by investing sustainably to build a better world.

About the Department

Within our Technology function, we are transitioning to a Product Model following a period of large-scale transformation. As part of this evolution, we have established a Platforms & Engineering team within Enterprise Services. This team encompasses our cloud Data Platform, API and Integration Team, DevSecOps, and Enterprise Automation.

The Data Platform Team plays a key role in bridging the gap between business and data, leveraging a Data Mesh architecture to foster a federated model of data development, delivery, and ownership. Our platform integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Azure, dbt, and Snowflake, to enable a self-service data ecosystem.

About the Role

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will help design, implement, and manage a decentralized data architecture based on the principles of Data Mesh. Your role will involve building platform capabilities that empower domain teams to autonomously own, access, and manage their data.

Using technologies like Snowflake, dbt, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Fabric, you will ensure the platform remains scalable, secure, and high-performing, while maintaining governance across a distributed data landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Mesh Architecture & Implementation

• Data Platform Development & Automation

• Data Product Design & Governance

• Cloud Data Warehousing & Transformation

• Security & Compliance

• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Experience

• Familiarity with Data Mesh principles and decentralized data architectures.

• Proven expertise with cloud technologies, including Snowflake, Azure, and dbt.

Skills and Knowledge

• Competency in scripting languages such as SQL, PowerShell, and Python.

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline management and Terraform for infrastructure automation.

• Strong understanding of data security, governance, and compliance standards.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• A continuous learning mindset and a proactive, detail-oriented approach to problem-solving.

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 abrdn 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.