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
Our Asset Management Tribe supports the products and processes employed by our asset management business. The tribe comprises several squads; each squad is responsible for evolving and maintaining the applications and technologies to which it is aligned.
About the Role
The Technical Business Analyst position within Aberdeen's Asset Management Tribe in Edinburgh plays a pivotal role in supporting and advancing the technology and applications that underpin the asset management business. This role focuses on understanding business needs, defining user stories, configuring solutions and ensuring deployment quality within agile squads.
The Technical Business Analyst collaborates closely with product owners, technical leads, and stakeholders to deliver outcomes that enhance investment data management and business processes. By influencing product evolution, testing solutions, and driving continuous improvement, the Analyst contributes directly to delivering valuable, sustainable investment services that empower clients and uphold Aberdeen's commitment to impactful financial outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and technical teams to understand and define business requirements and outcomes.
Create, document, and manage detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria using tools like Azure DevOps.
Configure application settings and implement solutions aligned with best practices and business needs.
Test, validate, and support the deployment of solutions to ensure quality and user satisfaction.
Monitor and report on the performance and usage of deployed solutions, providing feedback for ongoing improvement.
Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and support the growth of analysis capabilities within the squad and tribe.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate for the Technical Business Analyst role will possess the following:
Experience as a Business Analyst in financial services or asset management, with a strong understanding of investment data and processes.
Proven ability to deliver software solutions within financial services using agile methodologies and working effectively in agile squads.
Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data querying and validation.
Skilled in using documentation and project tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps.
Familiarity with cloud data warehouse platforms like Snowflake and related data governance, quality, and metadata management principles.
Experienced in reporting and visualization tools, including Power BI, Tableau, and Excel dashboards.
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.
