Manager, Invest Tech

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. 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, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Job Summary

Responsible for managing an agile development team using the latest technologies to build portfolio construction and analysis applications. In this position, you will work closely with the Invesco Investments Solutions group to envision, design, and deploy scalable technology solutions.  You’ll be expected to have intermediate investments knowledge to quickly and accurately collect and visualize investment processes.  The environment is demanding, and you will be challenged. We expect that you are fluent in all things data, and you also understand the nuances of financial services and our investment capabilities. You’ll be a part of a dynamic, collaborative team that wants to hear your input because you have a sound foundation in technology and investments. The ideal candidate is passionate about speed, quality, automation, and continuous delivery. We’re actively cultivating a culture of innovation and excellence, and while not for everyone, this environment will be challenging and rewarding for the right individual who welcomes dynamism and solving complex problems. Our team is sensitive to an ever-evolving technological landscape where thirst for knowledge and learning is mandatory, and the mastery of new skills and best practices is essential.

Key Responsibilities / Duties

• Serves as SME, thought leader, and technical strategy driver for the business capability/product

• Interfaces with the business, determines their needs, and ensures that the products and services developed are in line with business priorities

• Assesses the impact of technical solutions on the overall enterprise architecture and the future roadmap• Manages the key activities involving technical solution delivery and operations specific to the business capability/product

• Monitors engineering throughput and recommends practices for reducing cycle time and increasing throughput

• Keeps abreast of developments in the market for their technical competency or solution that supports their capability/product

• Monitors technical standards and performance criteria, advising on governance issues and escalating as necessary

• Focusses on reducing technical debt and increasing the resiliency of the technical platform

• Experiments with new technologies and acquire new skills to find creative solutions to the unique challenges we will encounter along the way

Work Experience / Knowledge:

• Minimum 10 years of proven Full Stack Engineering experience developing distributed data analytics and visualization software and workflows

• Minimum 10 years of proven Data Engineering experience developing complex data pipelines to ingest big data sets

• Experience managing large cross-functional teams would be a plus

• Advanced experience with Python and libraries like numpy, pandas, scipy, and matplotlib

• Advanced database programming experience with both SQL (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and noSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Parquet) data stores.

• Intermediate experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Plotly, PowerBI, Tableau, Plotly Dash, or RShiny)

• Basic to intermediate experience with HTML, CSS, React.js, and other front-end technologies.

• Intermediate to advanced experience with Microsoft Excel

• Basic to intermediate experience with Linux server administration, containerized environments (Docker or LXC), git, continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, Travis-CI, or CircleCI), documentation (e.g. Sphinx), IT security, distributed computing, and parallel computation.

• Basic to Intermediate understanding of Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivative instrumentsSkills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

• Comfortable working with ambiguity (e.g. imperfect data, loosely defined concepts, ideas, or goals) and translating these into more tangible outputs

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Self-motivated.  Capable of working with little or no supervision• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Enjoy challenging and thought-provoking work and have a strong desire to learn and progress

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and requests

• Must demonstrate a positive, team-focused attitude

• Ability to react positively under pressure to meet tight deadlines

• Good inter-personal skills combined with willingness to listen

• Structured, disciplined approach to work, with attention to detail

• Flexible – able to meet changing requirements and priorities

• Maintenance of up-to-date knowledge in the appropriate technical areas

• Able to work in a global, multicultural environment

Formal Education: (minimum requirement to perform job duties)

• Masters in Statistics, Computer Science or other similar advanced degrees from a top tier educational institution preferred

• CFA, CPA, CIPM, CAIA, and/or FRM preferred, but not required.

WORKING CONDITIONS: 

• Normal office environment with little exposure to noise, dust and temperatures 

• The ability to lift, carry or otherwise move objects of up to 10 pounds is also necessary

• Normally works a regular schedule of hours, however hours may vary depending upon the project or assignment

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. 

To know more about us 

About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html 

About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html 

About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html 

About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html 

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