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About the Role

This is a business-facing engineering role where you will collaborate with business users to identify challenges and develop AI and data solutions that reach production. You will be part of a firm-wide AI transformation, embedding with business units to build capabilities they cannot develop independently. Reporting to the Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own solutions from initial concept to live operation.

Responsibilities

Embed with the business to understand workflows, data, and friction points.
Partner with AI Enablement Partners on escalated demand.
Set realistic expectations for project feasibility and timelines.
Design, build, and productionize bespoke AI solutions end-to-end.
Prototype solutions with business users and harden successful prototypes into production.
Own architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with the enterprise core stack.
Guide solutions through evaluation, observability, and AI governance checkpoints.
Build advanced investment capability on Nexus and make it available across the firm.
Collaborate with quantitative researchers and investment teams to scale models and signals.
Implement validation, monitoring, and reproducibility for signal output.
Source data through APIs, vendor feeds, and enterprise systems, building ingestion pipelines.
Curate raw data into business-focused views, owning lineage, quality, and freshness.
Expose data and capability through Accio and Nexus.
Build reusable components and feed patterns back to AI Architecture and AI Engineering.
Co-build enterprise core-stack deliverables with Percepta and AI Engineering.
Collaborate with AI Security and AI Governance Implementation to meet standards.
Stay current with LLM capabilities, agent patterns, and AI tooling.

Requirements

At least four years in a technical, business-facing engineering role (forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, consulting-side software engineering, or embedded engineering).
Strong Python and SQL skills.
Proven track record of shipping production applications.
Production experience with LLMs, including prompt and context engineering, agent development, evaluation, and deployment.
Hands-on experience building agentic capability (MCP servers, tools, skills, or connectors).
Experience building data pipelines from APIs and enterprise systems.
Experience modeling raw data into curated, business-facing views.
Working knowledge of a major cloud (ideally Azure), with CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code.
Excellent stakeholder management skills.
High agency and comfort with ambiguity.
Genuine interest in the business problem.
Experience in a regulated environment with governance, compliance, and data sensitivity considerations.
Willingness to adhere to the Investment Advisory Code of Ethics.
Understanding of regulatory obligations and firm policies.

Skills

Python
SQL
LLMs
Agent frameworks
MCP
Azure AI Foundry
Model gateway
Snowflake
Azure
Terraform
Docker
CI/CD
TypeScript (nice to have)
Front-end experience (nice to have)

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Minimum four years in a technical, business-facing engineering role
Individual contributor role

Salary/Compensations

Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool.

Benefits

Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
Generous Holiday policies
Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub
Paid volunteer time
Support for professional development (courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement)
Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
All employee events (networking, social activities)
Lunch allowance for subsidized onsite canteen
Competitive compensation
Pension/retirement plans
Various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits

About the Company

A career at Janus Henderson is about investing in a brighter future together.
Our Mission is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service.
Our Values: Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust
Janus Henderson is undertaking a firm-wide AI transformation to become the most technologically sophisticated asset manager in the industry.
Our AI capability sits in a single centralised function under the Head of AI.
Forward Deployed Engineering is the part of AI that embeds with the business and builds what business units cannot stand up alone.
Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package.
Janus Henderson Investors is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment.

Equal Opportunity

Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.
If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at recruiter@janushenderson.com.