Prin. Architect I, Enterprise Platforms

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Job 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.-
- 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 proficiency working in agile development teams.- Strong proficiency developing 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 wor