Senior Principal Software Architect

Job Description

As one of the world’s leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.

If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, come explore your potential at Invesco. Make a difference every day!

Company Overview

At Invesco, one of the world’s leading asset managers, we are solely dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, explore your potential at Invesco.

Department Overview

The Strategy Innovation and Planning (SIP) team is a dynamic and agile engineering group committed to solving the most challenging and innovative business problems. We leverage cutting-edge technologies and embrace a startup mentality to deliver new capabilities across the firm. Our culture emphasizes fast delivery, continuous learning, and teaching. Every team member is passionate about technology, data sciences, and hands-on coding with a focus on impactful results. If you are a seasoned architect with a passion for learning, teaching, and solving complex problems, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we want you to join our team.

Your Role

• Hands-on coding and delivery of microservices/micro UI architecture patterns.
• Leading agile engineering team, providing mentoring, teaching, and training less experienced engineers.
• Collaborating with product owners to size, scope, and plan complex technical tasks.
• Exploring, establishing, and promoting enterprise patterns and processes in conjunction with Enterprise Architecture.
• Working across various technical teams to resolve technical impediments (security, compliance, architecture, etc.).
• Conducting peer code reviews to ensure quality, standards, and functionality.
• Adopting a "We can if..." attitude rather than "We can’t because."
• Tackling new challenges headfirst, even when out of your comfort zone.
• Measuring your success by the success of your team.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on coding, peer reviewing, and testing in various languages including Java, JavaScript (NodeJS, Express, ReactJS), Python, Solidity.
• Ensuring production quality, stable, maintainable systems, ability to write technical stories and divide work among multiple engineers / skills.
• Managing CI/CD tooling, Docker images, code organization, package, and library management.
• Documenting and proposing complex system architecture and integration patterns.
• Designing database architectures, REST APIs (Swagger), GraphQL APIs.
• Collaborating closely with the UI/UX Design team and product owners to build intuitive, professional software.
• Evangelizing the patterns, services, and products our team creates across the organization.

Experience Required

• 15+ years of hands-on experience in complex cloud systems architecture, programming in multiple languages, cloud-native architecture patterns, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Python, Node (NestJS + React), Java, and various database technologies.
• Deep understanding of pub/sub, web sockets, and event-driven architecture patterns.
• Proven expertise in Testing and Test-Driven Development, with the ability to lead and teach others.
• Strong multitasking skills, with the ability to manage time, scope, and deliverables, and accurately estimate effort for feature development.
• Knowledge of big data, data science, generative AI, machine learning, and common Python libraries.
• In-depth understanding and appreciation of Agile development methodologies and Open/Inner Source Code management.
• Expertise in cloud-native development patterns, specifically Kubernetes, Helm chart deployment, Serverless (Lambda), library and package management, JWT-based security, and experience with AWS & Azure cloud platforms.

Compensation

The total compensation offered for this position, which includes salary and incentive pay, will vary based on skills, experience, and location. The salary range for this position in New York City is $240,000 to $260,000 annually.

Benefits

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.