Head of Solutions Architecture

Why work for us?

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

If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!

Your opportunity

• 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

  What to expect when you join our firm

• 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

  Must have skills

• 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

• Nice to have skills

• Experience of cloud and data platforms such as Azure, Snowflake and Databricks, and of modern integration and API patterns.

• Experience of Black Rock Aladdin, its integration landscape and associated data capabilities, together with practical understanding of medallion data architecture.

• Experience with strategic finance, distribution or investment data platforms…