Prin. Architect I, Enterprise Platforms

Description

Your Team:

Enterprise Platforms empowers our engineering teams with streamlined tools to accelerate the creation of solutions that align with Invesco's vision and drive business growth. Our mission is to provide a state-of-the-art internal developer platform that drives efficiency, scalability, and innovation. Our aspirations are to offer engineer-friendly platforms that effortlessly alleviate cognitive burdens rather than imposing them, fostering genuine desire for adoption and utilization.

Your Role:

As a Platform Architect on the Engineering Platforms team, you will define and drive the architectural strategy for internal developer platforms and enterprise services. You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and ensure delivery of scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions that align with Invesco’s enterprise vision. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a passion for enabling engineering excellence at scale.

You will demonstrate a willingness to explore and contribute to new and exciting initiatives, while maintaining accountability for foundational engineering work that ensures platform stability, scalability, and long-term success.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

- Define and evolve the architectural vision for internal developer platforms and enterprise services.

- Lead the design and implementation of reusable patterns, frameworks, and integration strategies that promote platform maturity and developer enablement.

- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise goals.

- Champion DevSecOps practices and CI/CD maturity using tools such as Git, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, and Artifactory.

- Guide and support platform integrations including:

- Asset management (Artifactory)

- Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

- API Management platforms (MuleSoft preferred)

- Power Platform for low-code/no-code solutions

- GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools

- Advocate for automation and self-service engineering across the organization.

- Support the services you architect and participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and timely issue resolution.

- Represent the team in enterprise architecture forums and governance bodies.

- Mentor engineers and lead by example in applying best practices and execution excellence.

- Promote a collaborative and engaging culture across global teams.

Work Experience / Knowledge:

- At least 9+ years of professional software development experience.

- Proven experience in software architecture and platform engineering.

- Deep expertise in Java and object-oriented programming.

- Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

- Strong proficiencyworking in agile development teams.

- Strong proficiencydeveloping with CI/CD tools and practices.

- Proven experience in software architecture and platform engineering.

- Expertise in AWS is required, multi-cloud experience preferred.

Preferred Skills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

- Demonstrates a willingness to explore and contribute to new and exciting initiatives, while maintaining accountability for foundational engineering work that ensures platform stability, scalability, and long-term success.

- Experience with cloud-based platforms (Snowflake and AWS are preferred)

- Exposure to testing and automation tools (JUnit, Selenium, JMeter).

- Experience with developer experience tools and frameworks.

- Self-motivated team player who thrives in a collaborative environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Open minded, flexible, and willing to listen for other people’s opinions

- Strong organizational skills and detail orientation

- Ability to react positively under pressure to meet tight deadlines

- Must have a strong sense of urgency and the ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task assorted tasks daily

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Formal Education:

- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field of study or equivalent years of direct work experience.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally.

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What’s in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to:

- Competitive Compensation
- Flexible, Hybrid Work
- 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Planning
- Group Personal Accident Insurance
- Medical Insurance for Employee and Family
- Annual Health Check-up
- 26 weeks Maternity Leave
- Paternal Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Near site Childcare Facility
- Employee Assistance Program
- Study Support
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- ESG Commitments and Goals
- Business Resource Groups
- Career Development Programs
- Mentoring Programs
- Invesco Cares
- Dress for your Day

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.

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