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Houston, Texas, United States
Onsite
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.
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
Your Role
As a Platform Architect on the Engineering Platforms team, you will define and drive the architectural strategy for internal developer platforms and enterprise services. You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and ensure delivery of scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions that align with Invesco’s enterprise vision. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a passion for enabling engineering excellence at scale.
You will demonstrate a willingness to explore and contribute to new and exciting initiatives, while maintaining accountability for foundational engineering work that ensures platform stability, scalability, and long-term success.
You will be Responsible for:
Define and evolve the architectural vision for internal developer platforms and enterprise services.
Lead the design and implementation of reusable patterns, frameworks, and integration strategies that promote platform maturity and developer enablement.
Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise goals.
Champion DevSecOps practices and CI/CD maturity using tools such as Git, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, and Artifactory.
Guide and support platform integrations including:
Asset management (Artifactory)
Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
API Management platforms (MuleSoft or Apigee)
Power Platform for low-code/no-code solutions
GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools
Advocate for automation and self-service engineering across the organization.
Support the services you architect and participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and timely issue resolution.
Represent the team in enterprise architecture forums and governance bodies.
Mentor engineers and lead by example in applying best practices and execution excellence.
Promote a collaborative and engaging culture across global teams.
The experience you Bring:
At least 10+ years of professional software development experience.
Proven experience in software architecture and platform engineering.
Deep expertise in Java and object-oriented programming.
Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Strong proficiency working in agile development teams.
Strong proficiency developing with CI/CD tools and practices.
Proven experience in software architecture and platform engineering.
Expertise in AWS is required, multi-cloud experience preferred.
Experience with cloud-based platforms (Snowflake and AWS are preferred)
Exposure to testing and automation tools (JUnit, Selenium, JMeter).
Experience with developer experience tools and frameworks.
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field of study or equivalent years of direct work experience.
Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.
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.