Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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

The Cloud Capability function operates under our Corporate CTO, playing a strategic role in enabling and accelerating cloud adoption across Aberdeen. We work in close partnership with business verticals and corporate functions to deliver fit for purpose cloud platforms, practices, and processes that support modernisation while ensuring our environments remain resilient, secure, and efficient.

Internally the function is made up of Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Platform Engineering, Development Enablement and FinOps teams. Together we drive forward the modernisation of our technology environments, reducing friction to cloud adoption embedding automated governance, and empowering teams to build and operate in the cloud with confidence and agility.

About The Role

As Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our enterprise cloud strategy and roadmap with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure. It requires deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and a proven ability to navigate complex, federated environments, driving alignment across diverse business areas and corporate functions.

The focus is on building and executing a forward-looking cloud roadmap, championing cloud-native adoption, and embedding robust architectural standards. Success hinges on strong stakeholder engagement, technical leadership and mentoring a team of cloud architects to ensure consistent, scalable, and secure cloud adoption.

You will architect enterprise-grade infrastructure across networking, compute, storage, identity, and observability in collaboration with security, platform engineering, operations, and FinOps teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the cloud roadmap aligning modernisation and migration with business, technical, security, and compliance goals.
• Define and enforce architectural standards and best practices across well-architected cloud pillars.
• Drive automated governance and compliance guardrails through collaboration with security, platform engineering, FinOps, and operations teams.
• Lead design sessions, architecture reviews, proof-of-concept projects, and evaluation of new cloud technologies and vendors.
• Architect enterprise-grade Microsoft Azure infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, identity, and observability.
• Manage and mentor a team of cloud infrastructure architects, fostering cloud skills and adoption of cloud-native architectures, automation, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code. 

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Expertise in major cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), with strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity management, security, and compliance across platforms.
• Proven experience in modernising core infrastructure services on cloud environments.
• Skilled in architecting cloud solutions aligned with Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless, and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills. 

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.