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About the Role

Lead, coach, and develop the Solution Architecture team, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and continuous improvement of the operating model. Be accountable for the quality and coherence of end-to-end solution design across various domains, ensuring designs align with enterprise strategies and roadmaps. Establish architecture governance and influence senior stakeholders to drive strategic investment-management transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop the Solution Architecture team, including objective setting, performance support, succession planning, capability development and effective allocation of architecture resources to organisational priorities.
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, working closely with Business, Data and Technology Architecture colleagues.
Establish proportionate architecture governance and assurance, ensuring material decisions, risks, exceptions and trade-offs are transparent, recorded and addressed at the appropriate level.
Chair or contribute to architecture governance forums, ensuring reviews improve outcomes, accelerate decisions and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy.
Influence senior business and technology stakeholders, constructively challenging proposals where required and creating alignment across product, engineering, data, security, operations and delivery teams.
Provide architecture leadership for strategic investment-management transformation, including Aladdin, associated integrations, data flows and the medallion data architecture.
Promote reuse, interoperability, simplification and application rationalisation to improve the long-term sustainability of the technology estate.
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 challenging delivery constructively 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.
You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.
You should be willing 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.
Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position.

Skills

Cloud platforms
Data platforms
Azure
Snowflake
Databricks
Modern integration patterns
API patterns
BlackRock Aladdin
Medallion data architecture
Strategic finance data platforms
Distribution data platforms
Investment data platforms
AI-enabled technology teams
Delegated governance models
Architecture qualification
Professional accreditation

Location

Hybrid working

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Leadership experience
Architecture leadership experience

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. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.

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.
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.
All applications are subject to background checks.