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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 offers the opportunity to lead a specialist engineering capability with influence across the Application Engineering Guild. It combines hands-on technical leadership, applied innovation and ownership of shared API platforms.
Are you motivated by turning emerging technology into practical engineering capabilities?
Do you enjoy solving ambiguous business and technical problems through rapid, evidence-led experimentation?
Can you establish reusable patterns and improve engineering practices across multiple teams?
Do you want accountability for strategic API platforms as well as leading a specialist engineering team?
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
All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen
What you will do
Engineering innovation and strategy: Define and deliver the guild’s roadmap for AI-enabled engineering, automation and modern software-development practices, aligned with enterprise architecture, security, risk and AI governance.
Applied research and rapid prototyping: Lead a prioritised portfolio of time-boxed research, proofs of concept and prototypes addressing material business opportunities and engineering barriers.
Evidence-led decision-making: Work with business sponsors and engineering leaders to frame ambiguous problems, test assumptions and recommend whether to proceed, change direction or stop.
Hands-on technical leadership: Contribute directly to complex experiments and technical problem-solving, identifying integration, data, security, performance and operational constraints early.
Cross-guild patterns and standards: Develop practical integration patterns, reference implementations, reusable components and automated controls covering secure development, testing, deployment, observability, resilience and maintainability.
Engineering enablement: Coach teams, run practical enablement activities and use delivery feedback to improve shared tooling and patterns, increasing team self-sufficiency.
Platform ownership: Own the strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, developer experience and service outcomes for Azure API Management (APIM) and the BlackRock Aladdin API platform.
Platform service management: Establish clear accountability for platform reliability, security, capacity, onboarding, support, cost transparency, vendor dependencies and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder and vendor leadership: Work with engineering leads, Solution Architecture, Cyber Security, Risk, Infrastructure and Operations, Procurement, business sponsors and strategic suppliers.
Team and portfolio leadership: Build and lead a high-calibre specialist engineering team, set priorities, develop capability and balance innovation work with live-service platform obligations.
Outcome measurement: Track improvements such as faster validation and handover, adoption of supported patterns, reduced delivery friction and rework, improved reliability and successful knowledge
App Engineering Innovation Lead in London employer: Janus Henderson Investors
At Janus Henderson, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions innovation and collaboration. Our hybrid working model, comprehensive health benefits, and commitment to professional development create a supportive environment where employees can thrive. With unique opportunities to shape the future of AI within the financial services sector, you will be empowered to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a culture that values diversity and teamwork.
