Client Tribe - Solution Architect

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.

The Client Domain is responsible for shaping data capabilities that drive client-focused outcomes. The department works closely with architects, technical leads, and business stakeholders to design, evolve, and communicate data models that underpin our digital and analytical solutions.

As a Client Domain Architect, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the technology landscape that powers our client-facing solutions. You’ll work across squads and with Technical Leads to design, guide, and evolve scalable, secure, and forward-thinking architectures that align with the Client domains strategic goals. This is a leadership role that blends deep technical expertise with a collaborative mindset and a passion for innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Technical Leads and business leaders to design scalable, secure solutions aligned with strategic objectives and identify opportunities for innovation.
• Define and maintain the Client Domain’s architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and internal standards.
• Act as a bridge between the Client Domain and the wider technology organisation, fostering cohesive, integrated solutions.
• Conduct regular reviews of the technology landscape to ensure compliance, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to development teams and lead the evaluation and selection of technology vendors and platforms.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• A strong advocate for Agile methodologies and client-centric design.
• Have a solid grasp of architecture frameworks and methodologies.
• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bring a flexible, pragmatic approach to delivering value through technology.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Stay curious about industry trends and emerging technologies.

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.

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.