Principal Enterprise Architect

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Job Description

Your Team
EA Platform Architecture works within Invesco's Global EA organization, collaborating with Assurance, Business, Data, Domain, and Practices groups to provide guidance and governance for Business organizations, Solution Architecture, and engineering teams. We provide platform governance for Applications, API, AI, Cloud, Enterprise Content, Infrastructure, Security platforms.

Your Role
This role is accountable for the architecture design and governance review of engineering platform solutions with responsible solution architects for application platforms. Additionally, this role partners with domain, enterprise and solution architects to understand and drive adoption of platform patterns in their roadmaps and strategies.
You Will Be Responsible For:

• Develop and coordinate EA engagement with platform engineering teams to produce architecture strategies and roadmaps, including API management, web content management, enterprise content management, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Low-Code, DevSecOps and application frameworks.

• Build and maintain application architecture strategies, reference architectures and architecture roadmaps

• Perform Architecture work supporting the usage of platforms in systems solutions

• Partner on 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 for platform solution architects

• Collaborate with domain solution architects and the cloud team on cloud application migration strategy

• Partner on establishing an API management strategy, Low Code strategy and additional strategies enabling digital experiences

• Hands-on support for POC’s to evaluate new technologies and usage patterns

The Experience You Bring:

• Respected experience in an architecture role, supporting application architecture in sophisticated enterprise environments

• Experience with the design and development of API’s

• Experience with cloud migrations

• Experience with DevSecOps technologies, processes, and practices

• Proficient with architecture modeling using industry standard notation languages (Archimate)

• Experience with drafting and institutionalizing architecture patterns and architecture standards

• Experience with software application development in multiple programming languages and technology platforms

• Experience with application design and development on one or more cloud platforms

• Familiarity with AI

• Basic business understanding of financial services and asset management

• 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 and within a team

• 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 teammate, servant-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)

YesWorkplace 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. 

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.