Invesco

Sr Principal Architect

Hyderabad, Telangana Full time

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 Description

Job Purpose (Job Summary): The Senior Principal Application Architect within Enterprise Architecture will lead the development of architecture blueprints and support Solution Architects in their work.  They will work with technology and business partners to develop strategies, multi-year roadmaps, reference architecture, patterns and standards that support business domains.  They will work with Solution Architects to define target‑state architectures that enable scale, resilience and data integrity while ensuring alignment to long-term enterprise strategy.

Additionally, the Enterprise Architect acts as a thought leader and mentor, advancing architectural maturity across the business domain and ensuring alignment between business strategy, technology investment, and enterprise outcomes.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

  • Develop and coordinate EA engagement across application architecture domains including Investments, Distribution and Corporate
  • Build and maintain application architecture strategies, reference architectures and architecture roadmaps
  • Establish application architecture patterns and standards for web applications, batch applications, event driven architecture, serverless application, containerized applications, domain API’s and microservices
  • Review and approve architecture solutions via EA governance to ensure strategic alignment, avoidance of tech debt and alignment to architecture principles
  • Support the solution architecture community
  • Collaborate with domain solution architects and the cloud team on cloud application migration strategy
  • Hands-on support for PoCs to evaluate new technologies and usage patterns

Work Experience / Knowledge:

  • Respected experience in an architecture role, supporting application architecture in sophisticated enterprise environments
  • Experience with application design and development on one or more cloud platforms
  • Experience with drafting and institutionalizing architecture patterns and architecture standards
  • Good business understanding of financial services, distribution, and asset management
  • Proficient with architecture modeling using industry standard notation languages (Archimate)
  • Experience with software application development in multiple programming languages and technology platforms
  • Experience with the design and development of API’s
  • Experience with DevSecOps technologies, processes, and practices

Skills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
  • Ability to see the big picture, thinking and acting strategically
  • Strong influence skills both directly and indirectly of individuals across the firm to embrace enterprise architecture standards and recommendations
  • Ability to work independently; self-starter/self-motivated
  • Excellent relationship leadership skills with the ability to act with influence and build consensus
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
  • High-energy, confident professional with an ability to remain calm and take control in a crisis.
  • Valued team mate, leader and organizer.
  • Fully capable to diagnose and solve problems while maintaining integrity and courtesy.
  • Open minded, flexible, and willing to listen for other people’s opinions.
  • Adapts and leads to changing demands and conditions
  • Willing to keep up to date and scale skills and knowledge base, as well as mentor others.

Formal Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science/information systems or related field or equivalent demonstrated experience.

License / Registration / Certification:

  • Preferred Certified TOGAF
  • Preferred Vendor Certifications from AWS or Microsoft Azure

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. 

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 

Apply for the role @ Invesco Careers: https://careers.invesco.com/india/