Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

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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! 
Your opportunity

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You will build, and you will lead the people who build. It starts with your own hands on the keyboard; it grows into ownership of a team, its deliverables, and the roadmap they work to.
Janus Henderson is undertaking a firm-wide AI transformation to become the most technologically sophisticated asset manager in the industry. Our AI capability sits in a single centralised function under the Head of AI, and Forward Deployed Engineering is the part of it that embeds with the business and builds what business units cannot stand up alone. As Principal Forward Deployed Engineer you are the most senior engineer in that team and its lead. Reporting to the Head of AI Technology, you set the technical bar, own the team’s deliverables and outputs, and are accountable for what it ships and runs — while still embedding with business units yourself.
You will also form part of the AI Technical Leadership Team, whose remit is to build an AI Technology roadmap that lines up with the JHI strategic roadmap and own the deliverables against it. It works across every AI technology remit — AI Platforms, AI Architecture, AI Engineering, and AI Governance Implementation — keeping them aligned so the firm has one coherent plan rather than four competing ones. It also decides what we adopt: you will review new models, tools, and vendors, test their claims against our own workloads, and judge whether they are feasible here, technically, commercially, and against the constraints a regulated asset manager operates under.
The balance of the role will shift, and we would rather be explicit than discover a mismatch later. Today it is predominantly hands-on: you are expected to be one of the strongest bui…

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