Principal Engineer

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Atlanta, GA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech
The Role
The Principal Engineer will lead the architecture and strategy for enterprise financial systems, ensuring high-performance, secure platforms while mentoring engineering teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
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About Invesco

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.

What’s in it for you?

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

Job Description

About the Role:

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of large‑scale, high‑performance platforms supporting our Fixed Income Credit Research and Global Liquidity platforms. This role is a senior technical leader who will influence our technology strategy, modernize mission‑critical systems, and ensure our platforms meet the highest standards of performance, security, and reliability.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep engineering expertise, strong asset management/finance domain knowledge, and the ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities of the Role:

Architecture & Technical Strategy

  • Lead architectural vision and long-term technical strategy for enterprise financial systems.

  • Design scalable, distributed, cloud-native platforms supporting trading, investment, risk, and analytics workloads.

  • Establish technical standards, best practices, and architectural patterns across engineering teams.

  • Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they add business value.

Engineering Execution

  • Build and deliver high-performance services with strong focus on reliability, security, and scalability.

  • Guide engineering teams through complex problem-solving, performance tuning, and modernization efforts.

  • Oversee design reviews, code quality, and system reliability engineering practices.

  • Drive cloud adoption, microservices, API-first architecture, and automation across CI/CD pipelines.

Domain Expertise in Financial Systems

  • Translate financial business needs into scalable, compliant technical solutions.

  • Architect systems for market data ingestion, trade lifecycle workflows, risk calculations, and reporting.

  • Ensure platform design adheres to industry regulations (e.g., SOX, SEC, FINRA, PCI, privacy standards).

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Serve as a senior technical authority partnering with product, business, architecture, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams.

  • Mentor senior engineers, fostering an engineering culture focused on excellence and continuous improvement.

  • Lead technical deep dives, architecture councils, and executive-level technical communication.

Operational Excellence

  • Ensure platforms achieve high availability, low latency, disaster recovery readiness, and strong observability.

  • Lead incident analysis, root‑cause identification, and systemic improvements.

  • Promote DevOps, SRE principles, and end-to-end platform resilience.

Requirements of the Role:

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a principal/staff-level role.

  • Expertise building distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native applications.

  • Strong proficiency in one or more languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, Go).

  • Experience with public cloud (AWS is a plus)

  • Solid understanding of financial systems, products, and data flows.

  • Exposure/Experience in Snowflake is a Plus

  • 3+ years ReactJS experience

  • 5+ years' experience in SQL Server/RDBMS

  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture for large-scale, mission-critical systems.

  • Fixed Income knowledge is a plus.

  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

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.

Top Skills

AWS
C#
Go
Java
Python
React
Snowflake
SQL Server
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The Company
Atlanta, Georgia
4,700 Employees

What We Do

Invesco is an independent investment management firm delivering an investment experience designed to help people get more out of life.

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