In close partnership with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers and traders, you will define and deliver end-to-end investment functionality - from requirements discovery and rapid prototyping through to engineering, testing, release and adoption. You’ll establish clear interfaces between research tooling and production services, and ensure solutions meet functional, data, control and operational requirements.

In this capability leadership role, you will build the foundations (patterns, reusable components, data models, deployment pipelines and controls) required to scale Equity & Fixed Income capabilities. Working in close partnership with global investment, research, operations, risk and technology stakeholders, you will ensure the delivery of robust, compliant and scalable tools, data and controls that support the end-to-end investment lifecycle - from research and idea generation through to portfolio construction, implementation and oversight.

You will work closely with Product Owners, Architects and Delivery Leads across AMP and the wider FIL Platforms area to ensure work remains aligned, sequenced and on track, while designing the platform for extensibility as strategies and asset classes evolve, and enabling the rapid adoption of new capabilities with minimal friction for investment teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Setting the value stream strategy and roadmap for Equity & Fixed Income, and keeping it aligned to platform OKRs and FIL’s strategic priorities as both evolve, while leading the build-out of Equity & Fixed Income investment capabilities and setting clear technical direction.
• Owning the initiative backlog and making active prioritisation decisions, including translating investment problems into clear, actionable requirements with measurable outcomes.
• Designing the future operating model for Portfolio Management Tooling, working with the Trading and downstream functions to ensure alignment to business outcomes and creating scalable tooling to support the growth of AUM.
• Managing the value stream budget and headcount within agreed funding levels, and making the case for investment where it is needed, including oversight of vendor and partner contributions to ensure cost effectiveness and delivery quality.
• Tracking and reporting on outcomes, not just delivery progress - knowing what has actually moved and being honest when it has not, alongside ensuring transparency and accountability across delivery.
• Leading quarterly planning cycles and ensuring the ARTs are working to a coherent, well-sequenced plan, while driving cross-functional delivery with pace, discipline and predictable outcomes.
• Managing operational risk and service stability within the value stream alongside the change agenda, embedding strong engineering, control and resilience practices appropriate for a regulated environment.
• Building and developing the leadership team within the value stream, and holding them to high standards, while fostering a high-quality engineering culture and effective ways of working across teams.
• Define and evolve architecture, core services, data models and integration patterns to enable scalable solutions across strategies and asset classes.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards (code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability and documentation), ensuring they are applied consistently across all delivery.
• Partner closely with portfolio managers, researchers and traders to deliver investment functionality, alongside building data and analytics capabilities that support Equity & Fixed Income research, portfolio construction and monitoring.
• Representing the value stream at platform governance forums and with senior business stakeholders.

About you

The strongest candidates will have led large, complex delivery programmes at scale and will be comfortable with the full breadth of this role - the commercial, the operational, the technical, and the people dimensions, complemented by deep experience in investment management and front-office technology environments.

• A proven track record of end-to-end delivery leadership in a large, complex organisation - ideally at Director level or equivalent, including building applications from scratch and taking them through to production (requirements, architecture, engineering, testing, deployment and support), ideally within Equity & Fixed Income strategies.
• Strong familiarity with agile operating models at scale; experience with SAFe or a comparable framework is an advantage, alongside the ability to set a clear vision, define roadmaps and prioritise work across competing demands and uncertainty.
• The commercial acumen to own a business outcome and make the investment case for a value stream's priorities, supported by experience managing vendor contributions and driving cost-effective delivery.
• Financial management experience - owning a budget, making trade-offs, and being accountable for spend against outcomes, with a clear focus on aligning investment to measurable business value.
• The technical fluency to engage meaningfully with engineering leads on architecture, debt, and delivery risk, underpinned by strong engineering fundamentals and a pragmatic architecture mindset (APIs, event/data integration, scalable compute, observability and security controls).
• Experience of AI-based tooling and how it can be deployed within a transforming environment, being able to define the value case for spend of AI-based initiatives and leading teams to deliver the value to the Equity and Fixed Income teams.
• Senior stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to push back on demand that does not serve the business, with the ability to partner closely with front-office stakeholders (PMs, quant researchers, traders) and translate investment problems into clear technical designs and prioritised backlogs.
• A genuine track record of building high-performing, engaged teams across both business and technology disciplines, including the ability to motivate, coach and develop teams and foster effective cross-functional partnerships.
• Strong experience leading software delivery in an investment management or capital markets environment, including a strong understanding of portfolio management and investment workflows across adjacent strategies (e.g. systematic investing, portfolio solutions, sustainable investing) and emerging capabilities (e.g. digital assets, real estate and other illiquid strategies).
• Experience delivering in controlled environments with a strong focus on data quality, lineage, access controls, auditability and operational resilience, and a broader data and controls mindset appropriate for regulated environments.

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team.

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