Senior Principal Architect, Distributed Technology

Invesco • Atlanta, GA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Principal Architect provides strategic technology leadership across client, distribution and enterprise engagement platforms, helping shape the firm’s future technology landscape. The role defines architecture roadmaps, guides platform strategy and establishes target-state capabilities that support business growth and evolving client needs. As a trusted advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders, the architect influences key technology decisions and ensures alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business objectives.

The role requires deep expertise across CRM, marketing automation, digital experience, content, data, integration and AI-enabled platforms. It leads complex transformation initiatives and drives business outcomes, while helping modernize the platforms and capabilities that support client relationship management, marketing automation, digital engagement and client servicing globally.

The Client Engagement Platforms team is responsible for the strategy, architecture and evolution of the firm’s customer engagement technologies. It works with business, product and technology stakeholders to modernize customer engagement capabilities and evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions.

Requirements

• Significant experience in enterprise, solution or platform architecture roles within large, complex organizations.
• Deep expertise in CRM, marketing automation, customer engagement and digital experience platforms.
• Proven experience defining technology strategy, architecture roadmaps and target-state capabilities that support large-scale business transformation.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns, including composable architectures, API-led integration, cloud-native platforms, event-driven architectures and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience leading complex technology programmes and influencing strategic decisions across business and technology leadership teams.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data, analytics and AI technologies and their application within customer engagement and marketing ecosystems.
• Experience working with strategic technology vendors and managing platform selection, architecture governance and technology investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain technology roadmaps, reference architectures and target-state capabilities across CRM, marketing automation and client engagement platforms.
• Establish the strategic direction for customer engagement technologies, aligning them with business goals and long-term technology strategy.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, AI capabilities and industry trends to inform platform evolution and investment decisions.
• Partner with senior business, product and technology leaders to translate business strategy into scalable technology solutions and capabilities.
• Lead architecture and design activities for major transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Drive adoption of modern architectural patterns, including composable, API-first, cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.
• Establish governance frameworks, architecture standards and best practices across the client engagement technology estate.
• Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, influencing technology decisions, vendor strategy and future-state platform direction.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(k) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Parental leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed