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 Company
We are a leading independent global asset manager, dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for our clients through a highly diversified range of actively managed products. We are truly global, supporting our individual and institutional investors across a range of products, encompassing equities, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternatives. We build client trust by being dependably excellent in all things, and we put the client at the heart of everything we do. Our high-energy and collaborative culture at Janus Henderson helps our client achieve their goals and ensures that our people love the place they work.
The Department
The Technology department plays a crucial role in supporting the success of Janus Henderson. We are responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting state of-the-art software to support our fund management, trading, distribution, and operational areas and for maintaining a stable and resilient IT infrastructure platform. The Global Technology department has 400+ employees, running numerous change projects across all areas of the firm, including vendor implementations, regulatory change, in-house development, as well as overseeing change delivery from third party suppliers.
The Fixed Income Quant Platform Team sits within the Fixed Income Technology department and is responsible for providing low-friction technology services to the Quant community at Janus Henderson.
Quant Platforms Team responsibilities are dynamic, focused on building and maintaining deep working relationships with aligned business areas – team knowledge facilitates proactive activity, ensuring technology requirements are gathered, understood, developed, deployed, and supported, all in line with a predictable operating model.
Overview of the role
Within this role, your primary focus will be to partner with the quantitative investment teams on the review and enhancement of existing solutions, as well as on the build of new custom solutions. These solutions provide fund managers with innovative data driven research and enhanced decision-making capabilities. This is a senior technical hands-on role, and you will be expected to take ownership of key initiatives from design to delivery and to contribute to the architecture and development practices. This role is closely integrated with the investment team. It is therefore important that you can communicate and collaborate effectively across all areas of technology and business partners globally.
What to expect when you join our firm
* Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations.
* Generous Holiday policies
* 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
* Corporate membership to ClassPass and other health and well-being benefits
* Unique employee events and programs.
You will:
* Able to build IT & data solutions for portfolio managers and quants balancing the need for fast delivery against the need for enterprise grade technology.
* Design, implement and support data pipelines targeting Azure services to provide compute and data processing platforms.
* Productionise and scale quantitative research models.
* Participate in code design and code review.
* Enhance python offering in Azure by developing bespoke frameworks to give the power of cloud on the desk
* Design and support APIs.
* Be the technology expert on the desk. Giving guidance where appropriate and ensuring best practices and understood and followed.
Technical Skills and Qualifications
* Expert knowledge in python including libraries/frameworks such as pandas, numpy, pyspark
* Good understanding of OOP, software design patterns, and SOLID principles
* Good experience in Docker
* Good experience in Linux
* Good experience in Airflow
* Good knowledge of cloud architecture
* Good experience in Terraform
* Expert experience with database systems (snowflake, sql, postgres etc.)
* Experience of micro-service development and API development
* Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies
* Demonstrable ability to design and deliver complex systems at scale
* Knowledge of Angular, C# (preferential)
* Mathematical finance or data science experience useful but not required.
* Degree educated in mathematics or scientific/engineering discipline.