Chief Solutions Architecture & Enterprise Design

Janus Henderson Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working and reasonable Accommod

Health and wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time

Tuition/qualification reimbursement

Parental leave

Networking events and socialActivities

Lunch allowance

Zusammenfassung

Janus Henderson Group in London is hiring a Lead Solution Architect to guide and grow the architecture function, ensuring designs meet enterprise standards across data, security, and applications.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive an effective governance model and partner with Business, Data and Technology teams on strategic initiatives, including investment-management transformations and integrations.

Qualifikationen

• Significant architecture leadership in a global, regulated organisation.
• Experience leading 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

Aufgaben

• 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

Kenntnisse

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder management

Enterprise-scale design

Governance

Transition roadmaps

Delivery planning

Clear communication

Regulatory compliance

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

APIs

Aladdin

Jobbeschreibung

Janus Henderson Group in London is hiring a Lead Solution Architect to guide and grow the architecture function, ensuring designs meet enterprise standards across data, security, and applications.

You will influence senior stakeholders, drive an effective governance model and partner with Business, Data and Technology teams on strategic initiatives, including investment-management transformations and integrations.