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About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to lead a specialist engineering capability with influence across the Application Engineering Guild. It combines hands-on technical leadership, applied innovation, and ownership of shared API platforms.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver the guild’s roadmap for AI-enabled engineering, automation, and modern software-development practices, aligned with enterprise architecture, security, risk, and AI governance.
Lead a prioritized portfolio of time-boxed research, proofs of concept, and prototypes addressing material business opportunities and engineering barriers.
Work with business sponsors and engineering leaders to frame ambiguous problems, test assumptions, and recommend whether to proceed, change direction, or stop.
Contribute directly to complex experiments and technical problem-solving, identifying integration, data, security, performance, and operational constraints early.
Develop practical integration patterns, reference implementations, reusable components, and automated controls covering secure development, testing, deployment, observability, resilience, and maintainability.
Coach teams, run practical enablement activities, and use delivery feedback to improve shared tooling and patterns, increasing team self-sufficiency.
Own the strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, developer experience, and service outcomes for Azure API Management (APIM) and the BlackRock Aladdin API platform.
Establish clear accountability for platform reliability, security, capacity, onboarding, support, cost transparency, vendor dependencies, and continuous improvement.
Work with engineering leads, Solution Architecture, Cyber Security, Risk, Infrastructure and Operations, Procurement, business sponsors, and strategic suppliers.
Build and lead a high-calibre specialist engineering team, set priorities, develop capability, and balance innovation work with live-service platform obligations.
Track improvements such as faster validation and handover, adoption of supported patterns, reduced delivery friction and rework, improved reliability, and successful knowledge transfer.
Lead a specialist engineering team, setting objectives, priorities, and technical direction while supporting professional development.
Balance the team’s research and enablement portfolio with the operational responsibilities of the shared platforms in scope.
Provide day-to-day leadership for technical decisions, quality expectations, work allocation, and stakeholder commitments.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on software-engineering experience, including technical leadership across multiple teams, shared capabilities, or enterprise platforms.
Deep expertise in API and integration architecture, cloud platforms, software quality, delivery automation, and operationally sustainable engineering.
Experience applying AI-assisted engineering and automation beyond individual experimentation, with the ability to convert learning into reusable capabilities.
A proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into validated technical approaches through research, prototyping, and evidence-based decision-making.
Experience leading shared technology platforms, including roadmaps, lifecycle, service outcomes, vendor relationships, and developer experience.
Ability to lead specialists and influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders without relying solely on line authority.
Strong commercial and risk judgment, with the ability to communicate technical opportunity, cost, trade-offs, and risk clearly.
Understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.
Willingness to adhere to the provisions of our Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities.

Skills

API and integration architecture
Cloud platforms
Software quality
Delivery automation
Operationally sustainable engineering
AI-assisted engineering
Automation
Azure API Management
BlackRock Aladdin API platform

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Extensive hands-on software-engineering experience
Technical leadership across multiple teams, shared capabilities or enterprise platforms
Experience applying AI-assisted engineering and automation beyond individual experimentation
Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into validated technical approaches
Experience leading shared technology platforms
Ability to lead specialists and influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders

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 to step away from your desk and into the community
Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen
Competitive compensation
Pension/retirement plans
Various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits

About the Company

A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together.
Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.
Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do: Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust

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.
Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you!
We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment.
If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at recruiter@janushenderson.com.