Global Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Operations in Vauxhall

Why work for us? 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.

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

Your Opportunity: This global leadership role reports to the Chief Technology Officer and is a member of the Technology Leadership Team. In this role you will lead two pivotal areas: overseeing shared technology services that power the business and building platforms that enable AI, data and business-embedded technology teams deliver modern tools faster.

You will be responsible for the reliability and performance of the firm's infrastructure, cloud platforms, end-user technology, and operational services. Beyond operating critical technology services, you will help transform infrastructure into a modern platform capability by delivering scalable, self-service cloud, data, and AI foundations that accelerate innovation across the firm.

You will also play a key role in growing our Budapest technology hub as a center of excellence for platform engineering, infrastructure, and operations.

What to expect when you join our firm:

• Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
• Generous Holiday policies
• 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:

• Significant senior leadership experience building or operating enterprise-scale cloud, data or AI platforms and mission-critical infrastructure services.
• Demonstrated success turning infrastructure, cloud, data or AI capabilities into reusable, self-service platforms that accelerate engineering and business teams.
• Deep working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, modern data platforms, DevOps, automation, infrastructure as code and AI-assisted operations.
• Experience owning enterprise network and telephony, end-user computing, production support, IT service management and core services.
• Proven accountability for availability, resilience, major incident response, service quality and cost at enterprise scale.
• Proven track record in effective partnering with Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) anchored by sufficient understanding of core cyber security concepts, tools and principles.
• Experience leading and developing senior leaders within a large, globally distributed technology organization.
• Proven ability to build or scale an insourced delivery hub, develop local leadership and retain specialist technology talent.
• Ability to set strategy and translate it into clear roadmaps, operating measures and sustained adoption by internal customers.
• Experience owning a substantial budget and vendor portfolio, with strong judgment across cost, risk, controls, speed and innovation.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills, with credibility among senior engineers, technology leaders and business executives.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience operating Snowflake within a Medallion data architecture.
• Experience scaling technology capability in Budapest or another European delivery hub.
• Experience within asset management, financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience using employee experience, developer experience and platform adoption measures to guide investment and continuous improvement.

Supervisory responsibilities: Yes. Leads a globally distributed organization through senior leaders across platform engineering, infrastructure and operations.

Potential for growth:

• Mentoring
• Leadership development programs
• Regular training
• Career development services
• Continuing education courses

Annual Bonus Opportunity: Position may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus award from the profit pool. The profit pool is funded based on Company profits. Individual bonuses are determined based on Company, department, team and individual performance.

Benefits: Janus Henderson is committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards package to eligible employees that includes competitive compensation, pension/retirement plans, and various health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits.

Janus Henderson Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.