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Delivery Lead at Janus Henderson Investors

Delivery Lead

Janus Henderson Investors · GB

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Delivery Lead

Janus Henderson Investors · GB

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About the Role

The Delivery Partner is responsible for driving successful delivery across multiple teams, products, and technology domains within the Office of the Chief Technology Officer function. This role focuses on driving alignment, removing impediments, managing dependencies, and providing visibility of delivery performance, primarily at a Value Stream Level. The Delivery Enablement Lead acts as a servant leader and delivery facilitator, helping teams maintain momentum while driving operational excellence, governance, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Own and facilitate Quarterly Planning activities for assigned Value Streams.
  • Support Value Stream Leads and Product Owners with roadmap planning, release planning, milestone tracking and dependency identification.
  • Coordinate delivery activities across products and Value Streams.
  • Monitor progress against delivery commitments.
  • Escalate issues and drive timely resolution.
  • Represent the Value Stream in governance forums, executive meetings and stakeholder engagements and when needed deputise for the Value Stream Lead.
  • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels across Technology and Business functions.
  • Influence and facilitate executive decision-making to remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum.
  • Establish and maintain visibility of cross-team dependencies.
  • Drive resolution of dependencies, risks and issues that threaten delivery execution.
  • Maintain key artefacts that ensure transparency of delivery commitments, milestones, timelines and agreed outcomes within technology and to business stakeholders.
  • Track and report on progress, priorities, delivery risks and key decisions across teams.
  • Track and report key delivery metrics.
  • Promote consistent delivery practices across teams.
  • Drive adherence to Technology Development Lifecycle (TDLC) standards, governance requirements and delivery tooling.
  • Coach Leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and teams in Agile principles and practices.
  • Act as a servant leader, fostering collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Identify recurring delivery challenges, inefficiencies, and systemic bottlenecks.
  • Carry out additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Experience working in the investment management function at an Asset Management firm or similar.
  • Strong communication skills with experience of working with demanding stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated experience as a Release Train Engineer, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or equivalent leadership role within Agile environments.
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including SAFe and Scrum.
  • Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional delivery initiatives.
  • Experience operating within complex, matrixed organisations.
  • Experience managing distributed global teams and stakeholders.
  • Strong knowledge of dependency management, risk management, governance and delivery reporting.
  • Experience with Agile delivery tooling, including Jira and associated reporting platforms.
  • SAFe RTE certification or equivalent Agile qualifications desirable.
  • Experience in Financial Services or related field.
  • Knowledge of risk, compliance, and governance frameworks relevant to regulated industries.
  • Experience supporting organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • No supervisory responsibilities.
  • 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.
  • Understanding of the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.

Skills

  • Agile delivery methodologies
  • SAFe
  • Scrum
  • Release Train Engineer
  • Delivery Manager
  • Scrum Master
  • Dependency management
  • Risk management
  • Governance
  • Delivery reporting
  • Jira
  • Agile delivery tooling

Location

  • UK
  • US
  • Australia
  • APAC countries

Work Type

  • Hybrid working

Experience Level

  • Senior

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
  • Janus Henderson has adopted Agile ways of working to support the effective delivery of technology and business change across its Value Streams.
  • Global Technology consists of ~450 employees across the UK, the US, Australia, and other APAC countries.

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.