Financial Engineer, Risk Tech
3 days ago
Edinburgh
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. 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. The Digital Workplace Engineering team is a key capability within the Digital Workplace Services function. It is responsible for the creation and delivery of our Digital Workplace technology roadmap, maintaining a modern, secure and cost-efficient service. The Digital Workplace Engineer will work within a cross functional team and will be responsible for continuously improving our Digital Workplace Technology, with a specific focus on Azure Virtual Desktop technologies. Implement and administer changes across AVD and Digital Workplace Technology. Implementing and maturing core controls/activities around AVD and Azure, aligning to Aberdeen’s EUS risk control framework and regulatory requirements. creating visibility around EUS costs, AVD usage and highlighting where savings could be generated and putting in appropriate controls to help manage departmental budgets and produce reports for show back/charge back models. Creating and managing reporting in relation to AVD performance and usage metrics to improve end user experience. Responding to internal and external audits in relation to regulatory requirements and being able to help manage the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) controls. Automating and reducing manual management wherever possible, adopting a proactive approach to improve overall user experience, providing resiliency and ability to move at pace. Implementation of Azure & Virtual Desktop solutions, digital employee experience (DEX), endpoint management, analytics and automation tools. Proficient in operating within an ITIL environment. Skilled in applying continuous engineering and agile methodologies to manage frequent changes and reduce complexity. The candidate is expected to have a proven track record in the use of Azure Virtual Desktop. Experience in managing Azure Virtual Desktops, creating and managing images, backups and understanding sizing options, impacts and costs. Intune, Azure Infrastructure, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Monitor & Cost Management. Information Security and infrastructure/application/data resilience across AVD. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and understanding of scripting tools and languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python) Knowledge of automated deployment processes with Azure DevOps. Digital workplace tool management expertise: tools, techniques, monitoring and integration. Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and other monitoring tools to understand user experience and performance. 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. There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. 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. Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. 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 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. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.