Job Description

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save, and invest for their futures. With expertise, insight, and innovation, we aim to create more ways for money to make an impact, helping our clients achieve their goals and investing sustainably to build a better world.

About the Department

The Data Centre of Enablement is a key part of our Architecture and Data team within the CETO function. We are responsible for enabling business stakeholders to realise the potential and value of abrdn’s data assets. Partnering with Business Teams, Product Teams, Delivery Domains, and other Centres of Enablement, we drive a deep understanding of abrdn’s data and ensure that we are doing the right things with our data. The Enterprise Data Model anchors all our activities, ensuring alignment and consistency across the organisation.

About the Role

As a Data Enablement Consultant, you will be an abrdn data expert, supporting governance and data quality outcomes across defined data domains. You will work closely with stakeholders across abrdn, building credible business partnerships and providing specialist knowledge, advice, and consultancy. You will ensure consistency in our approach to data, adopting policy, standards, definitions, best practices, and frameworks, while staying ahead of industry trends, data technology, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Consultancy: Provide data consultancy, support, and insights to enable teams across the business to apply policies, standards, and frameworks effectively. Anticipate business needs and respond accordingly.

• Business Engagement: Support business stakeholders in ensuring data ownership, stewardship, and the application of best practices to drive meaningful outcomes and return on investment.

• Best Practices and Standards: Communicate and embed Data Policies, Standards, and Frameworks aligned with industry best practices, ensuring teams adhere to these standards for consistency.

• Data Cataloguing: Create and maintain data catalogues and models that are understood and utilised across the business.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Drive communication and collaboration among departments to ensure data is effectively understood, shared, and leveraged.

• Data Expertise: Build domain expertise and act as a subject matter expert on data, understanding the costs and value of data solutions.

• Feedback Loop: Establish mechanisms for gathering feedback to drive continuous improvement in data enablement efforts.

About the Candidate

• Relevant industry qualifications and strong business knowledge.

• Proven interpersonal skills, including stakeholder management and the ability to influence decision-makers.

• Experience with data ecosystems within Financial Services organisations.

• Knowledge of data modelling concepts and Agile delivery methodologies.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into specialist guidance and advice.

• Ability to think strategically and maintain a customer-focused, commercially aware approach.

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.

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.