Senior BI Engineer Data Strategy & Investment Analytics
I build the data & AI layer that investment teams don't just use they trust it with decisions. Eighteen years, four firms, one recurring job: turning noise into something a desk would stake capital on.
currently: agentic AI × RAG for investment research Janus Henderson Investors
From writing code to shaping how entire desks consume and govern their data the arc has always pointed the same direction.
Today, as Associate Director & Senior BI Engineer at Janus Henderson, I partner with investment, operations, marketing and compliance teams across APAC. The work: lifting legacy on-prem trading data onto modern cloud platforms, standing up governance where key-person risk once lived, and retiring tools with zero audit trail.
The newest chapter is agentic AI multi-agent, RAG-grounded workflows that compress hours of document review into minutes across equities, fixed income and alternatives. Outputs stay traceable. Judgment stays human-led. That part is non-negotiable.
Everything on this page is open to read. But there's a drawer of field notes below that opens for anyone who thinks laterally. No pressure the answer is hiding in plain sight.
optional challenge · lateral thinking
I hold cities with no houses, rivers with no water, forests with no trees, and mountains you will never climb. Every explorer needs me; every data engineer quietly builds one over their domain. What am I?
principles collected over 18 years of pipelines & portfolios
Govern the boring parts first. Glamour compounds later.Glamour compounds later. Governance compounds immediately.
An answer without an audit trail is a rumour with a chart.Traceability is what separates analytics from folklore.
Retire tools only one person understands. Retire the risk not the person.Key-person dependency is a debt with compound interest.
The model proposes. The human disposes. Never invert the order.Especially when agents start writing their own workflows.
Compress hours into minutes then spend those minutes thinking.Automation isn't the destination. Judgment is.
If you broke the cipher without a search bar, we'd probably enjoy a conversation. The contact details are below no test required. A.J.
Read chronologically, it's a career. Read sideways, it's an argument: systems earn trust the same way portfolios do by surviving stress.
Associate Director · Senior BI Engineer
Own the APAC BI layer across investment, operations, marketing and compliance. Lifted legacy on-prem trading data onto modern cloud, stood up governance where key-person risk once lived, and ran Scrum to retire tools with zero audit trail. Now shipping agentic RAG workflows for research.
Currently: multi-agent AI compressing hours of document review into minutes traceable, human-judged.
Technical Specialist · Group PMO
Integrated third-party applications with in-house systems gathering requirements, designing the integration path, running UAT, and taking it live.
Associate · Aladdin Tactical Solutions, APAC (PMT)
Built the fast, robust solutions that lived just outside core Aladdin speed-to-market tooling, prototypes of emerging processes, and risk remediation for the desks that couldn't wait for a release cycle.
Assistant Vice President · Risk Tools
Developed, ran and extended the portfolio of risk systems used across Retail, Corporate & Investment Banking. Full lifecycle with business owners then migrated a sprawling Excel/Access/VBA estate into C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and a proper BI stack.
Signal: legacy is a design decision you can unmake.
Data Analyst · McKC
Traced the pathways of chronic heart disease, diabetes and stroke key metrics tied to real-world outcomes and built a simulation of the US health-reform overhaul so decision-makers could see policy before it happened.
Reporting Analyst · Managed Computing Services
Dashboards, automation, data mining and reconciliations supporting CSC Australia. Side quest: built an Excel add-in Power Utils that quietly saved 100+ man-hours, and ran project transitions to the India metrics team.
Intern
Built and maintained an internal division portal in JSP/Ajax/Perl/XML, and automated the Excel/Access reporting that nobody enjoyed running by hand.
Network Administrator
Ran a 50-seat lab: Windows 2003 terminal services, Linux Samba & NFS, VPN, and the first lesson that systems only stay honest if someone keeps checking.
Tools are hypotheses about how work should feel. These survived contact with real desks.
Happy to talk data engineering leadership, investment platforms, or wherever AI meets real portfolio workflows. Melbourne time replies usually within a day.