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We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.\nOur Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:\nClients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust\nIf our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!\nYour opportunity\nAs a Senior Data Engineer, you will own the technical direction for a subsystem or cross-product concern within the Janus Henderson Data Platform. You will act as a go-to engineer for architectural decisions in your area, designing resilient data products and platform capabilities that span multiple business domains. The role requires deep technical craft, strong domain awareness, applied AI fluency, and the ability to influence engineering standards across the Data Engineering guild.\nOwn design and delivery of complex data engineering capabilities across subsystems or cross-product concerns, setting technical direction within your area.\nDesign systems that span multiple products or domains, such as entitlement models, concordance frameworks, semantic layers, ingestion frameworks or reusable platform services.\nProvide deep technical expertise in at least one core platform pillar, including Snowflake internals, dbt architecture, orchestration, CDC/streaming or equivalent platform capabilities.\nBuild reusable engineering assets, including dbt macros, custom materialisations, Python packages, ingestion frameworks, MCP tooling or other shared libraries where the standard toolkit does not fit.\nDiagnose and resolve performance, reliability and cost issues at query-plan, pipeline and platform level.\nAssess architectural trade-offs, including build-versus-buy decisions and second-order impacts across downstream reporting, analytics, operations and regulatory processes.\nDesign and deliver production-grade AI-enabled tooling where appropriate, including agents, retrieval pipelines, MCP servers or other applied AI capabilities with appropriate guardrails for a regulated environment.\nOwn quality gates, observability and incident learning for your area, including postmortems, root cause analysis and continuous improvement actions.\nMentor junior engineers and data engineers, run design reviews and establish standards that other engineers can adopt consistently.\nCommunicate technical trade-offs clearly to architecture, product, operations, compliance and other non-technical stakeholders.\nDevOps and Source Control Work with fellow team members to collaborate and review source code. Deep understanding of branching strategies and able to release production quality code through change control processes.\nCarry out other duties as assigned\nWhat to expect when you join our firm\nHybrid working and reasonable accommodations\nGenerous Holiday policies\nExcellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub\nPaid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community\nSupport to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more\nMaternal/paternal leave benefits and family services\nUnique employee events and programs including a 14er challenge\nComplimentary beverages, snacks and all employee Happy Hours\nMust have skills\nDeep expertise in at least one data platform pillar, such as Snowflake internals, dbt architecture, orchestration, CDC/streaming or distributed data processing.\nAdvanced SQL skills, including query-plan analysis, performance tuning, cost optimisation and troubleshooting on cloud data platforms.\nStrong Python engineering capability, with experience building reusable frameworks, packages or libraries rather than only one-off scripts.\nProven ability to design systems that span multiple products, domains or platform concerns, with awareness of downstream impacts and operational risk.\nExperience making technical trade-offs under delivery pressure, including scope, quality, build-versus-buy and maintainability decisions.\nStrong experiences with DevOps, branching strategies, Azure Portal/Keyvault/Appreg concept.\nExperience with Microsoft Azure services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Key Vault and Azure DevOps, for CI/CD and infrastructure integration.\nWorking knowledge of financial services data domains, with the ability to understand hand-offs between Investments, Distribution, Operations, Regulatory, Corporate and Finance processes.\nAbility to write clear design documentation, present trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and influence engineering standards beyond your immediate product area.\nExperience with production-grade AI-enabled tooling, such as agents, RAG/retrieval pipelines, MCP servers or AI-assisted engineering workflows.\nMust be able to use vscode copilot for development work\nExperience mentoring engineers, leading design reviews and supporting technical decision-making across a team or guild.\nNice to have skills\nExperience with dbt Core/Cloud, including custom macros, packages, tests, contracts or materialisations.\nExperience designing or operating semantic layers, entitlement engines, concordance models, data contracts or reusable platform services.\nUnderstanding of AI/LLM risk in a regulated environment, including data egress, auditability, model non-determinism and appropriate guardrails.\nKnowledge of data governance frameworks, lineage tooling, Data Mesh principles and distributed data ownership.\nCertifications or demonstrable advanced capability in Snowflake, Databricks, dbt or equivalent cloud data platform technologies.\nSupervisory responsibilities\nNo\nPotential for growth\nMentoring\nLeadership development programs\nRegular training\nCareer development services\nContinuing education courses\nCompensation information\nThe base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $149,000. This range is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different. This position will be open through October 15, 2026.\nColorado law requires an estimated closing date for job postings. Please don't be discouraged from applying if you see this date has passed.\nAt Janus Henderson Investors we’re committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates 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 \nAnnual 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.\nBenefits: 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. To learn more about our offerings please visit the Why Join Us section on the career page here.\nJanus 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. 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