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
We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Business Analyst with deep experience in infrastructure data analysis, server lifecycle management, and insights reporting. In this role, you will work at the intersection of technology and business, transforming complex infrastructure data into actionable intelligence that drives strategic decision‑making and operational excellence.
You will play a pivotal part in analysing obsolescence risk across our server estate, mining large datasets, building Power BI dashboards, and supporting senior stakeholders with clear, compelling insights. Strong communication and relationship‑building skills are essential, as you will regularly collaborate with technical teams, project leadership, and non‑technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct detailed infrastructure data analysis, identifying patterns, risks, and opportunities across server estates and platforms.
Lead on server obsolescence treatment, including data capture, assessment, reporting, and recommendation of remediation paths.
Technical change readiness, ensuring testing criteria is met to validate change success across multiple stakeholders
Perform data analysis and validation from multiple technical sources to ensure reporting accuracy and data quality.
Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and analytical reports that provide actionable insights for leadership teams.
Translate complex technical data into clear, concise, and engaging dashboards for technical and non‑technical audiences.
Engage effectively with stakeholders across Infrastructure, Architecture, Security, and Delivery teams to gather requirements and align priorities.
Support strategic decision‑making by preparing evidence‑based business cases, data summaries, and risk analyses.
Contribute to continuous improvement of data processes, documentation, and reporting pipelines.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst, preferably in an infrastructure or technology‑heavy environment.
Strong background in analytical data work, including data mining, cleansing, correlation, and interpretation.
Hands-on experience with server lifecycle or obsolescence management and understanding of supporting technologies.
Advanced proficiency in Power BI, including data modelling, DAX, and dashboard development.
Ability to convert complex datasets into meaningful insights and communicate findings clearly.
Excellent stakeholder management, with experience working across multi‑disciplinary technical teams.
Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Comfortable working independently, managing priorities, and delivering high‑quality outputs to deadlines.
Desirable
Knowledge of infrastructure components such as servers, storage, networking, and operating systems.
Familiarity with scripting, or automation tools used for data extraction and transformation.
Experience working within ITIL‑aligned environments or infrastructure transformation programmes.
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.
