Solutions Architecture Lead — Enterprise Strategy & Delivery

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time off

Professional development support

Job summary

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead the Architecture team and shape end-to-end designs across business, data, integration, applications, security, resilience and operations.

You will align designs with enterprise roadmaps, govern architectural practices, influence senior stakeholders and drive transformation initiatives including Aladdin integrations in a global context.

Qualifications

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

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.
• Carry out other duties as assigned

Skills

Architecture leadership

Team development

Investment management knowledge

End-to-end solution design

Governance experience

Stakeholder influence

Strategy to roadmaps

Strategic and pragmatic judgment

Clear communication

Job description

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead the Architecture team and shape end-to-end designs across business, data, integration, applications, security, resilience and operations.

You will align designs with enterprise roadmaps, govern architectural practices, influence senior stakeholders and drive transformation initiatives including Aladdin integrations in a global context.