Job Information
Janus Henderson Investors Enterprise Data Architect in London, United Kingdom
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. 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!
The department
The Enterprise Data department plays a crucial role in supporting the success of the business. We are responsible for developing and implementing a data strategy, governance framework, and management model to support all firm data types with high quality data obtained from trusted and resilient sources, across our investment management, trading, distribution, regulatory and operational areas.
Overview of the role
Reporting to the Global Head of Enterprise Data, the Enterprise Data Architect will collaborate with JHI’s data stewards, technology infrastructure and product teams and multiple functional groups across several lines of business, to drive the development and management of conceptual data models across our key data domains to support the firm’s data-centric strategic goals and objectives.
Your opportunity
Responsible for the overall conceptual data architecture across the JHI enterprise
Define and design the high-level conceptual data architecture looking enterprise-wide across data life cycle events, sources and systems
Review proposed designs from within and outside the team to ensure their efficacy and conformance with design principles and guidelines
Provide data systems architecture advice and mentorship to delivery teams and workstream managers
Ownership and coordination of data change transversally and management of impact to data architecture
Develop and promote the strategic data platform (DNA) design principles
Assess existing and new data requirements on key projects and programs and vice versa.
Propose/implement changes to the data architecture to ensure requirements are met.
Contribute to data architecture process improvements and ways of working initiatives
Partner with Technology teams on developing data-related requirements, prioritizing demand, setting clear scope of responsibilities, and executing an implementation strategy driven by measurable business impact
Identify opportunities to build efficiencies of scale, surface data redundancies and inconsistencies, reduce risk associated with manual data handling, and deliver creative solutions to the business
Develop effective relationships with business areas, data operations, technology, and risk to support the delivery of data-related services to the organization
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 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
Experience with conceptual architecture blueprints and designs
Experience with database architecture and data modeling
Experience collaborating and delivering logical data models alongside solution architects
Experience in data model design lifecycle, in particular mapping of data domains and conceptual modelling
Business analysis skills and ability to understand and make design recommendations on interrelationships and dependencies of various data domains
Experience with data lineage mapping, taxonomies, high level data flows, data catalogue and metadata management
Experience using typical data modelling tools such as ERWin, Oracle data modeller etc.
Experience using typical data lineage and metadata management tools such as Collibra, Informatica, Alteryx, PowerBI etc.
Knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake, PowerBI, API, graphQL
Proficiency in development tools and languages employed in the JHI Cloud such as Python and SQL
Understanding of common software development methods and the full development lifecycle
Knowledge of common master data management (MDM) architectures and ETL methods
Structured business systems analysis methods: Relational and dimensional data modeling, process modeling
Specification and report writing
Proficiency in Cloud based analytics processing
Self-motivated, highly driven and solution-oriented mindset, with a proven track record of execution and collaborative problem solving
Supervisory responsibilities
No
Potential for growth
Mentoring
Leadership development programs
Regular training
Career development services
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 recruiter@janushenderson.com