Schroders
Global Head of Group Operations Technology
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Senior Technology Leader for Group Operations Technology
Who We’re Looking For
We are seeking a senior technology leader to define and deliver the strategic direction of our Group Operations Technology platform, supporting both public and private market business lines.
This role will drive the evolution of critical capabilities that underpin core operational processes, adopting a platform-centric architecture approach to enable scalable, standardised, and resilient outcomes across the organisation.
Working at the intersection of business and technology, with dual accountability across both domains, you will lead a process-driven strategy that ensures consistent and efficient delivery.
This will be underpinned by an integrated data and AI strategy, with Snowflake as the firm’s strategic data platform, enabling scalable data products, robust governance, and advanced analytics, alongside AI-driven process automation, intelligent workflows, and enhanced decision-making.
At the heart of the platform, Aladdin will serve as the firm’s core Portfolio Management infrastructure, anchoring front-to-back investment lifecycle capabilities across public and private markets. You will ensure its effective integration within the broader platform architecture, aligning data, processes, and services to enhance transparency, efficiency, and operational control, while continuing to leverage emerging technologies such as DLT and blockchain.
About Schroders
We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries, and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000–6,000 people on six continents. We’ve been around for over 200 years, but we keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
Our new HQ in the City of London provides a flexible working environment in the heart of the UK’s financial centre.
The Team
The Group Operations Technology team sits at the heart of our Global Operating Platform, supporting the firm’s client and investment lifecycle across public and private markets. It is part of the Asset Management Platform (AMP), Schroders’ technology organisation responsible for delivering the platforms that enable our business. The team provides core operational technology capabilities that drive scalable, efficient, and consistent outcomes.
This role has dual reporting lines to:
- COO of the Global Operating Platform
- CTO of the Asset Management Platform, reflecting the role’s joint accountability for business outcomes and technology strategy.
What You’ll Do
- Define and own the strategic direction of the Group Operations Technology platform, ensuring alignment to business priorities across public and private market business lines.
- Drive a cohesive technology strategy aligning business and technology, placing data and AI as the core of the platform to enable convergence, simplify operating models, and deliver scalable, value-driven outcomes across Group Operations.
- Lead the evolution of a platform-centric architecture, with Aladdin as the core Portfolio Management infrastructure, driving standardisation, reuse, and simplification across core capabilities to improve scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Establish and embed a process-driven operating model, ensuring consistent, well-governed delivery across the full lifecycle—from design through to build, run, and continuous optimisation.
- Deliver measurable business outcomes, creating efficient, scalable operational processes and improving end-to-end performance across Group Operations.
- Partner with senior business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to shape demand, prioritise investment, and align technology delivery with business strategy.
- Drive disciplined platform governance, including adherence to Global Technology policies and standards (e.g., SDLC, architecture governance), as well as investment prioritisation, risk management, and delivery assurance across a complex application landscape.
- Own and manage a significant £30M technology budget, ensuring effective allocation of investment, strong financial governance, and clear linkage between spend and business value.
- Lead, develop, and provide strategic oversight to a large, platform-aligned organisation of circa 200 technology professionals, fostering a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Leverage data, AI, and emerging technologies (including DLT and blockchain) to unlock new capabilities, enhance transparency, and improve decision-making.
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The Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications You Need
Core Requirements
- Extensive senior leadership experience in technology, specifically within global asset management or financial services, with a proven track record of delivering complex, business-critical platforms.
- Demonstrable experience defining and executing platform strategies, including adherence to platform-centric architecture approaches to drive standardisation, simplification, and scalability across large technology estates.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end operational processes, including experience embedding process-driven operating models that deliver consistent, well-governed outcomes across design, delivery, and run.
- Experience driving business-technology alignment at scale, using data and AI (underpinned by Snowflake) to support decision-making, operational efficiency, and transformation outcomes.
- Deep knowledge of modern architecture principles and enterprise platforms, including cloud-native architectures, API and event-driven design, data platforms, and integration patterns.
- Experience working with Aladdin, with an understanding of its role in enabling convergence of public and private market operating models and supporting end-to-end investment lifecycle capabilities.
- Proven experience leading large, globally distributed technology organisations, including organisational design, leadership team development, and scaling high-performing teams.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, with a track record of managing technology budgets, investment prioritisation, and delivering measurable value from spend.
- Experience operating within mature governance frameworks, including SDLC disciplines, architecture governance, and risk management across complex environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, enabling strong engagement, challenge, and alignment with senior business and technology leaders (including COO-level communities).
- Experience leveraging emerging technologies, including Snowflake, AI, DLT, and blockchain, to drive innovation and improve operational outcomes.
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What You’ll Be Like
You are a strategic, outcome-driven technology leader who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about aligning business and technology to deliver meaningful impact.
- Bring a strong platform-centric and architectural mindset, paired with a disciplined, process-driven approach.
- Operate confidently at senior levels, able to influence, challenge, and build trusted relationships across business and technology.
- Display executive ownership, setting clear direction, and fostering high-performing teams.
- Actively foster an inclusive, supportive culture that develops talent and drives accountability, simplicity, and continuous improvement within a combined technology and operations environment.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Schroders, we’re committed to providing excellent investment opportunities through active management, and we believes that diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture allows us to make better decisions. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us, and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.
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