Tech Environment Manager

Janus Henderson; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment firm as a pivotal member of the Quality Team, overseeing Environment & Release management. You will drive high-profile initiatives, promote best practices, and foster collaboration with diverse teams within the company. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of Asset Management systems and a strong foundation in agile methodologies, ensuring successful project execution in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits

Paid volunteer time

Professional development support

Maternal/paternal leave benefits

Complimentary Headspace subscription

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Environment and Release Management in hybrid environments.
• Excellent analytical skills and capability to foster relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to articulate fund accounting concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for non-production environment and release management.
• Develop and implement Release and Environment strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive adoption of best practices.

Skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Analysis

Troubleshooting

Education

Experience in Asset Management

Experience in Agile and DevOps

Strong database knowledge (SQL)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investingin 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

To join the Quality Team in the Environment & Release area, tasked with driving forward large-scale global change initiatives and the delivery of high-profile programmes on behalf of the Technology Department at JHI. The nature of these Projects and Programmes will vary over time and is likely to be diverse reflecting current business priorities.

• You will be responsible for all aspects of non-production environment management and release management. This role works closely with Change Enablement, so a good understanding of Change and Incident management is also required.
• Senior Leadership: Develop, promote, and implement cohesive Release and Environment strategies that align with the company's technology goals.
• You will be part of the team who act as gatekeepers to Production.
• You will be a keen advocate for Quality and support the SDLC process.
• You will be a DevOps evangelist and help drive the adoption across key programmes of change.
• You will partner with teams across the company and forge relationships with areas outside the Tech Ops team.
• Create and execute against a test environment management process to solve both tactical and strategic environmental and/or release challenges.
• Collaborating cross-functionally, contribute towards long term test environment and release management standards/processes that align and grow with our Agile, Cloud and Dev Ops strategies.
• Create and execute against an approach for driving adoption, implementation, governance and education of new test environment and release processes.
• Non-production data management including co-ordination of data refreshes.
• Foster a culture of sustainable continuous improvement and actively embrace Research new technologies and methods to help adopt best practice for Environment & Release Management
• Own the identification of all environment and infrastructure requirements (including Data and/or virtual services for testing) across our complex, integrated landscape.
• Manage the implementation of these needs within the technical/systems ecosystem at JHI in a forward-thinking manner that balances near term concerns / tactical solutions with the longer term / strategic direction
• Always work with the big picture in mind. Liaise with wider technology teams to coordinate inter dependencies and resolve issues
• Work with programs and support teams to ensure that all required information is received, captured, validated and available as required
• Work constructively and transparently, as possible, with third party service providers
• Liaise with the wider programme to help manage delivery milestones and the overall timelines. Contribute to the maintenance of risk/issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates
• Support the Test Strategy & Approach. Working closely with the Quality Team to support all enabler aspects of all levels of testing, including system, NFT., UAT etc.. Provide Enabler Support for E2E testing for applicable changes
• Carry out other duties as required

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass
• 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
• All-inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
• Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app
• All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
• Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen

Must have skills

• Deep understanding of Environment and Release Management especially in a hybrid environment model.
• Experience of Agile, DevOps and SDLC.
• Strong analysis, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaborator management skills, capable of fostering strong relationships with both business and technology stakeholders.
• Adept communicator with strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Good knowledge of the Asset Management sector including Front, Middle and Back office architectures.
• Experience of working with outsourced suppliers of Asset Management systems.
• Ideally experience of working on large scale business & technology transformation programmes
• Experience and ability to analyze high-level business requirements and translate these into overall detailed system-level designs to be used for architectural design, cost / benefit analysis, and solution development
• Experience writing acceptance criteria / test cases, implementation, capturing sign offs and presenting demos to business
• Strong database knowledge with expertise in database design and SQL (MS SQL) data manipulation and analysis.
• Strong foundation in software development, system architecture and cyber securities practices.
• Beneficial to have skills in a scripting language such as Python, or similar, with experience of operating in on-prem, hybrid, and cloud computing platforms (Azure)
• Strong problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on consensus building and collaboration.
• Strong Microsoft Skills, including PowerPoint & Excel; understand and document Process Maps using tools such as Visio.
• A good knowledge of financial products used in Asset Management including, Equities, Cash, Fixed Income and complex Swap instruments.

Nice to have skills

• Knowledge of Batch processing
• Knowledge of Jira, Aha! and Confluence
• Ability to communicate, present, influence, reason and demonstrate the ability to articulate fund accounting concepts to non-fund accounting personnel in a clear and compelling manner
• Ability to deliver on heavy workloads and exceed high expectations while remaining focused and organized in a fast-paced environment

Potential for growth

• Regular training
• Continuing education courses

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.

At Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. Don’t worry if you don’t think you tick every box, we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we’re happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know at [emailprotected] .

Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).