Senior Oracle and Cloud Applications Engineer

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.

The Enterprise Applications team is dedicated to designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise solutions to support our business operations and goals. The team focuses on leveraging cloud technologies, modern engineering practices and collaborative Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality, scalable and secure applications and services.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer to join our Enterprise Applications team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in configuration of Oracle ERP and EPM Cloud products, strong proficiency in Azure cloud technologies, and hands-on experience with GitHub, API integrations, ETL (i.e. ADF & Ab initio), Identity and Access Management (IAM) including Single Sign-On (SSO). Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric is a strong plus. This role will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise solutions that support our business operations and strategic goals.

In this role, you will lead modernisation of our application landscape on Azure, champion clean, testable code and DevOps automation, and drive continuous improvement in tools, practices, and ways of working. You will collaborate in agile squads with product and UX colleagues, mentor engineers through knowledge sharing and code reviews, and work closely with stakeholders to solve complex technical problems and deliver impactful, user-centric solutions aligned to strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of solutions using Oracle ERP (e.g., Financials, Procurement, Projects) and Oracle EPM (e.g., Planning, Financial Consolidation).
• Develop and maintain RESTful and SOAP APIs to integrate Oracle systems with internal and third-party applications.
• Implement and manage IAM and SSO solutions (e.g., Azure AD, Entra ID, Okta, Oracle Identity Cloud Service).
• Design and manage cloud-native applications and infrastructure using OCI or Azure.
• Utilize GitHub for source control, code reviews, branching strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Monitor system performance, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with security, data governance, and regulatory standards.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, integration specs, and deployment guides.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices and technical leadership within the team.

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle EPM Cloud (Planning, Financial Consolidation, Account Reconciliation)
• Integration Cloud (OIC), ADF, Ab initio
• API development: REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
• IAM/SSO: Entra ID, Azure Active Directory, Okta, Oracle Identity Cloud Service (OID)
• Cloud Platforms: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure
• Version Control & DevOps: GitHub, Jenkins
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Programming/Scripting: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Python, Shell scripting, C#
• Data & Reporting Tools: Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle BI Publisher, Power BI
• Security & Compliance: OAuth2, SAML, RBAC
• Monitoring & Logging: Oracle Management Cloud, ELK Stack
• Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, ADO

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle certifications (e.g. Oracle Cloud Certification)
• Experience with Snowflake for cloud data warehousing and analytics
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric for unified data integration and business intelligence
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to financial systems and business process automation

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.

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.

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.