Global Head of Group Operations Technology in City of London

We are seeking a senior technology leader to define and deliver the strategic direction of our Group Operations Technology platform, supporting both public and private market business lines.

This role will drive the evolution of critical capabilities that underpin core operational processes, adopting a platform-centric architecture approach to enable scalable, standardised, and resilient outcomes across the organisation.

Working at the intersection of business and technology, with dual accountability across both domains, you will lead a process-driven strategy that ensures consistent and efficient delivery.

This will be underpinned by an integrated data and AI strategy, with Snowflake as the firm’s strategic data platform, enabling scalable data products, robust governance, and advanced analytics, alongside AI-driven process automation, intelligent workflows, and enhanced decision-making.

At the heart of the platform, Aladdin will serve as the firm’s core Portfolio Management infrastructure, anchoring front-to-back investment lifecycle capabilities across public and private markets. You will ensure its effective integration within the broader platform architecture, aligning data, processes, and services to enhance transparency, efficiency, and operational control, while continuing to leverage emerging technologies such as DLT and blockchain.

The Group Operations Technology team sits at the heart of our Global Operating Platform, which underpins the firm’s client and investment lifecycle across public and private markets. It forms part of the Asset Management Platform (AMP), Schroders’ technology organisation responsible for delivering the platforms that enable our business. Within this model, the team provides the core operational technology capabilities that drive scalable, efficient, and consistent outcomes.

This role has a dual reporting line to the COO of the Global Operating Platform and the CTO of the Asset Management Platform, reflecting its joint accountability for business outcomes and technology strategy.

What you’ll do

• Define and own the strategic direction of the Group Operations Technology platform, ensuring alignment to business priorities across public and private market business lines.
• Drive a cohesive strategy to align business and technology, placing data and AI at the core of the platform to enable convergence, simplify operating models, and deliver scalable, value-driven outcomes across Group Operations.
• Lead the evolution of a platform-centric architecture underpinned by Aladdin as the core Portfolio Management infrastructure, driving standardisation, reuse, and simplification across core capabilities to improve scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and embed a process-driven operating model, ensuring consistent, well-governed delivery across the full lifecycle—from design through to build, run, and continuous optimisation.
• Deliver measurable business outcomes, enabling efficient, scalable operational processes and improving end-to-end performance across Group Operations.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to shape demand, prioritise investment, and ensure technology delivery is fully aligned to business strategy.
• Drive disciplined platform governance, including adherence to Global Technology policies and standards (e.g. SDLC, architecture governance), as well as investment prioritisation, risk management, and delivery assurance across a complex application landscape.
• Own and manage a significant technology budget of circa £30m, ensuring effective allocation of investment, strong financial governance, and clear linkage between spend and business value.
• Lead, develop, and provide strategic oversight to a large, platform-aligned organisation of circa 200 technology professionals, fostering a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Leverage data, AI, and emerging technologies (including DLT and blockchain) to unlock new capabilities, enhance transparency, and improve decision-making.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience within technology in a global asset management or financial services environment, with a proven track record of delivering complex, business-critical platforms.
• Demonstrable experience defining and executing platform strategies, including the adoption of platform-centric architecture approaches to drive standardisation, simplification, and scalability across large technology estates.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end operational processes, with experience embedding process-driven operating models that deliver consistent, well-governed outcomes across design, delivery, and run.
• Experience driving business and technology alignment at scale, using data underpinned by SnowFlake and AI as core enablers to support decision-making, operational efficiency, and transformation outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of modern architecture principles and enterprise platforms, including cloud-native architectures, API and event-driven design, data platforms, and integration patterns.
• Experience working with Aladdin, with an understanding of its role in enabling the convergence of public and private market operating models and supporting end-to-end investment lifecycle capabilities.
• Proven experience leading large, globally distributed technology organisations, including organisational design, leadership team development, and scaling high-performing teams.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with experience managing significant technology budgets, investment prioritisation, and delivering measurable value from spend.
• Experience operating within mature governance frameworks, including adherence to SDLC disciplines, architecture governance, and risk management practices across complex environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage, challenge, and align senior business and technology leaders, including COO-level stakeholders.
• Experience leveraging emerging technologies, including SnowFlake as the firms enterprise data platform, AI, and ideally DLT/blockchain, to drive innovation and improve operational outcomes.

What you’ll be like

You are a strategic, outcome-driven technology leader who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about aligning business and technology to deliver meaningful impact.

You bring a strong platform and architectural mindset, coupled with a disciplined, process-driven approach to execution.

You are confident operating at senior levels, able to influence, challenge, and build trusted relationships across business and technology.

As a leader, you take ownership, set clear direction, and build high-performing teams, while actively fostering a supportive and inclusive culture that develops and nurtures the workforce of the future across a combined technology and operations environment, driving accountability, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristics.