Senior Investment Data Analyst

Janus Henderson Investors; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time off

Professional development support

Parental leave

Employee events

Free beverages & snacks

Job summary

Janus Henderson Investors is seeking a Senior Investment Data Analyst to bridge investments and technology, designing data features and supporting data change initiatives. You will drive value from investment data by leading analyses across regions and teams, including portfolio managers, risk and operations.

You will mentor analysts, define data requirements, and help transition capabilities to platforms like Aladdin and Snowflake, while ensuring governance and reporting are robust for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a data analyst in asset/investment management or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of fixed income data, security, holdings, and market data.
• Proficient in SQL and Python for analysis, validation and automation.
• Experience with data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, controls and UAT.

Responsibilities

• Lead data analysis and collaboration across investment, business and technology teams.
• Translate business needs into technical specs, data models, mappings and pipeline designs.
• Represent fixed income data stakeholders on cross-functional data projects.
• Create dashboards and reports to monitor KPIs and provide actionable insights.

Skills

5+ years data analyst

Fixed income data knowledge

SQL & Python scripting

Data quality & governance

Data warehousing / Cloud

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Power BI / Tableau

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

MS SQL Server

Job description

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

This role sits at the intersection of the Investment teams and the Technology Delivery in Enterprise Data & Integrations. As a Senior Investment Data Analyst, you will work across investment, business and technology teams to design and deliver valuable data features, support enterprise data change and transformation initiatives, and extract measurable value from investment data. You will play a pivotal role by leading analysis projects that drive business impact through data.

• Lead collaboration with portfolio managers, analysts, traders, risk, performance, operations, product owners and technology teams to understand fixed income data challenges, objectives and needs.
• Partner with the Investment Data Product Owner to translate business needs into technical specifications and agile features, including data models, mappings and pipeline designs. Evaluate technical trade-offs and recommend solutions aligned with business strategy.
• Represent Australian Fixed Income and its stakeholders on cross-functional data change and transformation projects. Serve as a key liaison across Investments, Enterprise Data & Integrations, peer data owners and delivery teams.
• Conduct comprehensive data analysis, profiling and reconciliation using SQL, Python and ETL or data-quality tools to support decisions, enhance data quality and resolve operational issues.
• Act as a subject matter expert for fixed income investment data, including security, holdings, transactions, portfolios, benchmarks, risk, performance, analytics, reference and market data.
• Support the transition of investment data capabilities to strategic platforms, including Aladdin, Aladdin Data Cloud and Snowflake, while maintaining appropriate controls and continuity for downstream consumers.
• Document data flows, lineage, ownership, definitions, controls and business rules. Champion data governance and data-quality standards across the investment data lifecycle.
• Together with the product owner, lead agile planning activities, including risk identification, user story definition, feature prioritisation and dependency management.
• Lead or support mapping validation, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing, defect triage, release readiness and business sign-off.
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor key performance indicators and provide actionable insights.
• Work collaboratively with technical teams to develop data pipelines and analytics solutions within agile frameworks.
• Continuously learn and apply new technologies, tools and best practices in investment data analysis and data management.
• Mentor and guide junior analysts.
• Collaborate across regions and time zones as required, including Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

What to expect when you join our firm

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub
• 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
• Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
• Unique employee events and programs including a 14er challenge
• Complimentary beverages, snacks and all employee Happy Hours

Must have skills

• Five or more years of experience in a data analyst, business data analyst or comparable role within asset management, investment management or financial services.
• Strong fixed income and investment data knowledge, with practical understanding of how data supports portfolio management, trading, risk, performance and operations.
• Proven track record leading analysis on large-scale data transformation, platform migration or investment data change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience writing SQL and Python scripts for analysis, validation, reconciliation and automation.
• Experience with data warehouses or cloud platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Proven ability to write high-quality requirements, process maps, data mappings, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, controls, QA and UAT.
• Demonstrated experience with Power BI, Tableau or a similar reporting tool.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and stakeholder-management skills.
• Initiative and the ability to design solutions and progress complex work with minimal supervision.
• Effective communication and time-management skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• A team player with a client-first mindset.

Nice to have skills

• Experience with Aladdin, Aladdin Data Cloud, Snowflake, Bloomberg, FactSet, Charles River, S&P EDM or EAGLE.
• Knowledge of Australian fixed income markets and instruments, including government and corporate bonds, securitised assets, derivatives and cash products.
• Experience with Agile delivery, Jira, data catalogues and enterprise data governance tooling.

Supervisory responsibilities

• No formal direct-report responsibility. Provides mentoring, technical leadership and guidance to analysts and delivery partners.

Potential for growth

• Regular training
• Continuing education courses

Compensation information

The base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $125,000. This range is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different. This position will be open through October 30, 2026.

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