Adv. Eng., Investment Technology

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.

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Job Description

Job Purpose (Job Summary): We're seeking a Advance Engineer to join a technology team which is embedded with our Custom Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) business. In this position, you will work closely with the business team to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge capabilities in support of Invesco's separately managed accounts business. You'll be expected to have basic investments knowledge to collect and visualize investment processes quickly and accurately. The environment is demanding, and you will be challenged. We expect that you are fluent in data and application integration. 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 appreciate the nuances of investment processes.

We have a pragmatic approach to architectural and technology choices and hope you will too. We pair program and follow Test Driven Development because we know it delivers remarkable results. 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 the ability to work with fast evolving requirements.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

• Working on a proprietary highly scalable, technology solutions for custom tax-managed equities, fixed income and traditional SMA models.
• Help build an end to end portfolio construction, optimization, trade modeling and rebalancing capabilities for custom tax-managed equities portfolio management system
• Working in a team that's embedded with portfolio managers and traders who are also hands-on developers
• Automating data integration and create a robust data validation framework.
• Integrating in-house built applications with vendor products
• Designing and developing an accounting analytics system

Your Role

• As an Engineer, Investment Technology, you will be working on the application team that builds and supports the global trading platform.
• This crucial role includes working on requirements from business that adheres to the foundation which meet the long-term goals in terms of functionality, supportability, extendibility, and scalability.
• This role also provides an opportunity to explore latest technology stack to improve the current business model.

You will be responsible for:

• Designing and developing software applications to enhance ability to take better Investment decisions and simplify the activities of the trade life cycle globally
• Participating and contributing to architectural and code review discussions and ensures optimal design and coding standards are followed
• Working closely in a mid-size growing team using the agile development methodology to implement solutions that meet business needs
• Communicating effectively to present your and team's work to different levels of clients or partners

Work Experience / Knowledge:

• 1-2 years-experience in Application Development, engineering, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions
• 1-2 years or advanced experience in Python
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket Pipelines
• Experience in building Restful services
• AWS Experience (Lambda, S3, EKS, SQS)
• Experience Docker, Kubernetes or Helm
• Scripting Experience in Powershell or other scripting languages
• Experience with scheduler technologies eg Autosys, Airflow , Stonebranch etc
• Knowledge of Equity financial concepts or buy side asset management is plus

Skills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

• Ability to pivot to new technologies as they become available. Keep pace with a constantly changing environment.
• Willingness to adopt a test driven development approach and automate tests using tools like pytest, Junit.
• Collaborate with users/stakeholders to translate business problems into technical requirements.
• 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; but must be a good team player.
• 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
• Structured, disciplined approach to work, with attention to detail
• Able to work in a global, multicultural environment

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.

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

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.