Operational Resilience Architect

Janus Henderson Investors; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time

Professional development

Family leave

Networking events

Lunch allowance

Job summary

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a dedicated Operational Resilience Specialist to strengthen threat detection, continuity planning, and governance across the firm. The role partners with business units, technology, risk, and third-party risk teams to protect critical services and drive improvements.

You will analyze risks, coordinate exercises, and report to leadership and regulators, while maintaining a strong focus on compliance, data integrity, and timely incident response.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of operational resilience regulatory frameworks and guidance issued by global regulators and industry bodies, and experience supporting compliance with resilience-related requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management principles, including relevant regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Knowledge and experience to assess emerging business risks, regulatory developments, and industry trends, and recommend appropriate resilience and risk mitigation approaches.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships and communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain resilience, continuity, and risk concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, risk, compliance, and third-party teams.
• Strong organizational, planning, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Self-motivated and dependable, with a proactive approach and the ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to gather, interpret, and present data to support decision-making and reporting.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and deliver high-quality work within established deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain and improve the firm’s operational resilience program (including processes and procedures).
• Work with business service owners to identify important and critical business services and keep inventories current.
• Help define disruption tolerances and recovery objectives for critical services.
• Document employees, processes, technology, data, facilities, and external providers needed to deliver critical services.
• Assess services for weaknesses, including single points of failure and vulnerabilities.
• Track actions to address weaknesses and report on progress and gaps.
• Plan and coordinate exercises that test resilience of services.
• Record lessons from exercises and monitor follow-up actions.
• Prepare resilience metrics and reports for management, regulators, auditors, and governance committees.
• Collaborate across business, technology, risk, compliance, and third-party risk management teams as the resilience SME.
• Be on-call outside hours for incident response and crisis management.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Skills

Operational resilience

Regulatory frameworks

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytics

Planning & prioritization

Resilience under pressure

Self-motivation

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a dedicated Operational Resilience Specialist to strengthen threat detection, continuity planning, and governance across the firm. The role partners with business units, technology, risk, and third-party risk teams to protect critical services and drive improvements.

You will analyze risks, coordinate exercises, and report to leadership and regulators, while maintaining a strong focus on compliance, data integrity, and timely incident response.