Head of Architecture - Asset Management Platform

This role is pivotal in ensuring that enterprise strategy, operating models, and cross‑domain business capabilities are clearly defined, aligned, and translated into scalable platform outcomes. You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, operating model design, and platform enablement, ensuring coherence across Investment, Client, Group Operations, Data, and Finance business aligned domains. As a senior leader, you will embed a strong business architecture discipline within a platform‑centric operating model, driving clarity, standardisation, and measurable business value across the organisation.

Schroders is a global investment manager, helping institutions, intermediaries, and individuals meet their financial goals and prepare for the future. With over 200 years of heritage and c.5,000 employees globally, we combine long‑term perspective with continuous innovation to adapt to evolving markets and technologies.

The Asset Management Platform (AMP) is a global technology change and delivery organisation responsible for the platforms that underpin Schroders' investment, client and operational capabilities across public and private markets. AMP brings together a set of business‑aligned technology platforms—including Client, Investment, Group Operations, Data and Finance—into a single, integrated asset management capability, enabling consistent, scalable and value‑driven outcomes across the firm.

Operating within a platform‑centric model, teams are aligned to business outcomes while leveraging shared enterprise capabilities across architecture, data, engineering and delivery to drive standardisation, reuse, and speed of execution.

The Analysis & Design function is a core enterprise level capability within the Asset Management Platform, accountable for shaping the future direction of the firm's technology and business capabilities. Operating across all business aligned domains, the team provides leadership in business analysis, architecture, operating model design, strategic analysis and product management, ensuring investment is aligned to business priorities and enterprise outcomes.

Through the definition of common standards, reusable design patterns and platform‑wide governance, the function drives consistency, simplification, and scalability, enabling the organisation to accelerate change, optimise cost, and realise the full potential of data, AI and platform‑based operating models.

• Defining enterprise‑wide capability models and value streams
• Ensuring alignment across platforms and business domains
• Driving standardisation, simplification, and convergence
• Enabling data‑ and AI‑driven transformation at scale

• Define and lead the business architecture vision, framework, and standards across the Asset Management Platform
• Establish and maintain enterprise‑aligned capability models, value streams, and operating models
• Ensure traceability from strategy capabilities value streams processes platform enablement
• Translate business and corporate strategy into clear, structured business architecture artefacts and roadmaps
• Enable enterprise‑wide coherence and alignment across platform initiatives
• Define and evolve target operating models across front‑to‑back functions
• Drive simplification, standardisation, and scalability of business processes globally
• Support the transition to platform‑centric and product‑aligned ways of working
• Own the enterprise business capability model aligned to GOP
• Identify capability gaps, overlaps, and optimisation opportunities across domains
• Define and embed value metrics, OKRs, and benefits realisation frameworks
• Ensure alignment of business architecture across multiple platforms and domains
• Partner with platform architects, domain architects, and enterprise architecture
• Act as a bridge between business strategy and platform design/delivery
• Embed data and AI considerations into business architecture design
• Ensure capabilities and processes are structured to leverage advanced analytics and AI insights
• Align with enterprise data strategy, governance, and platform capabilities
• Establish and enforce business…