Executive Solutions Architecture Leader

Janus Henderson Investors; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time

Job summary

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a senior Solution Architecture leader to drive end-to-end architecture across business, data, integration, and security domains. You will ensure designs align with enterprise roadmaps and governance, while guiding a high-performing team and coordinating across product, engineering, and operations.

You will influence senior stakeholders, shape target architectures, and lead strategic initiatives including Aladdin integrations to support the

Qualifications

• Significant architecture leadership experience in a complex, regulated, global organisation, ideally within investment management or financial services.

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.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder influence

Enterprise architecture

Governance design

Solution design

Strategic roadmaps

Clear communication

Delivery governance

Pattern development

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Aladdin integration

Job description

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a senior Solution Architecture leader to drive end-to-end architecture across business, data, integration, and security domains. You will ensure designs align with enterprise roadmaps and governance, while guiding a high-performing team and coordinating across product, engineering, and operations.

You will influence senior stakeholders, shape target architectures, and lead strategic initiatives including Aladdin integrations to support the