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About the Role

Lead, coach, and develop the Solution Architecture team, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies and driving investment-management transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the Solution Architecture team, including objective setting, performance support, succession planning, capability development, and resource allocation.
Own and continually improve the Solution Architecture operating model, engagement approach, quality bar, methods, and measures of effectiveness.
Be accountable for the quality and coherence of end-to-end solution design across business, data, integration, application, security, resilience, and operational domains.
Ensure solution designs align with enterprise target architectures, principles, standards, technology strategy, and multi-year roadmaps.
Establish proportionate architecture governance and assurance, ensuring transparency and appropriate addressing of decisions, risks, exceptions, and trade-offs.
Chair or contribute to architecture governance forums to improve outcomes and accelerate decisions.
Influence senior business and technology stakeholders, constructively challenging proposals and creating alignment across teams.
Provide architecture leadership for strategic investment-management transformation, including Aladdin, associated integrations, data flows, and medallion data architecture.
Promote reuse, interoperability, simplification, and application rationalization to improve technology estate sustainability.
Carry out other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Significant architecture leadership experience in a complex, regulated, global organisation, ideally within investment management or financial services.
Demonstrable experience leading and developing architecture teams and building a strong, outcome-focused professional community.
Deep understanding of investment-management capabilities, operating models, data, and technology platforms.
Proven accountability for enterprise-scale, end-to-end solution design across business, data, integration, applications, security, resilience, and operations.
Experience defining and operating architecture governance that is proportionate, transparent, and effective.
Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders, resolving ambiguity, and constructively challenging delivery in a matrix organisation.
Ability to translate strategy and target architectures into practical transition states, reusable patterns, decision records, and delivery roadmaps.
Strong judgement in balancing strategic alignment, control, delivery pace, cost, risk, and pragmatism.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex design choices clear to technical and non-technical audiences.
Willingness to adhere to regulatory obligations, regulated entity requirements, and JHI policies.
Willingness to adhere to the provisions of the Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements.

Skills

Cloud and data platforms such as Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks
Modern integration and API patterns
BlackRock Aladdin, its integration landscape, and associated data capabilities
Medallion data architecture
Strategic finance, distribution, or investment data platforms relevant to a global asset manager
AI-enabled technology teams
Delegated governance models
Relevant architecture qualification or professional accreditation

Location

Hybrid working

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Architecture leadership experience
Experience leading and developing architecture teams

Education Level

Relevant architecture qualification or professional accreditation

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 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.
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.
If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at recruiter@janushenderson.com.