Senior Principal Data Architect

Invesco Ltd. • Houston, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 The Department Our mission is to create world-class, client-centric data solutions that drive competitive advantage, grow our global business, and deliver an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. This mission is fueled by inventive and cohesive teams, which thrive on collaboration and shared trust and demonstrate diversity of thought. Our people drive our success, so we invest heavily in our talent, promoting continuous learning and development, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies, and creating the space to discover. The Data Architecture Team is seeking candidates who innovate, operate effectively in an agile environment, challenge the status quo, and are driven to succeed. Your Role: We’re seeking a Senior Principal Data Architect to join our Global Data Architecture team within Enterprise Architecture that supports our Investments, Distributions, Corporate data and overall architecture requirements. You will drive data architecture capabilities uplift alongside a dynamic and collaborative team that wants to partner with you because you know the leading methods, tools, and theories in data architecture to help modernize our existing solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of data platform and architecture experience
• Designing end to end data solutions, ideally within an enterprise.
• Hybrid or cloud native data solutions implementations, preferably AWS & Snowflake.
• Defining reference architecture, technical roadmaps, data governance frameworks & solution blueprints.
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies & architecture governance.
• Large scale data migrations, application modernization, proof of concept experiments and requirements gathering.
• Stakeholders management and presenting solutions to mixed technical | non-technical audiences.
• Past roles that involved hands on coding in SQL, C#, C++, .Net, Java, or equivalent programming languages (not scripting).

Nice To Haves

• TOGAF experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Leading the architecture direction around data capabilities and solution architectures that require architecture oversight.
• Ensuring alignment of initiative-level high and low designs against the data/tech architecture standards and strategy and governing adherence to our key principles in this space.
• Understanding our data structures and initiatives to support data platforms, applications and solutions, as well as champion new solutions for existing groups who leverage the capabilities
• Work with Agile Squads, Business, and Stakeholders to investigate & perform data analysis for the purposes of creating new solutions.
• Communicate designs and explain design features and alternative approaches to internal consumers.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

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