Principal Engineer

Invesco

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Atlanta, GA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 2 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Invesco

As one of the worlds 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 youre looking for challenging work intelligent colleagues and exposure across a global footprint come explore your potential at Invesco.

Whats 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

About the Role:

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the design architecture and delivery of largescale highperformance platforms supporting our Fixed Income Credit Research and Global Liquidity platforms. This role is a senior technical leader who will influence our technology strategy modernize missioncritical systems and ensure our platforms meet the highest standards of performance security and reliability.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of deep engineering expertise strong asset management/finance domain knowledge and the ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities of the Role:

Architecture & Technical Strategy

  • Lead architectural vision and long-term technical strategy for enterprise financial systems.

  • Design scalable distributed cloud-native platforms supporting trading investment risk and analytics workloads.

  • Establish technical standards best practices and architectural patterns across engineering teams.

  • Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they add business value.

Engineering Execution

  • Build and deliver high-performance services with strong focus on reliability security and scalability.

  • Guide engineering teams through complex problem-solving performance tuning and modernization efforts.

  • Oversee design reviews code quality and system reliability engineering practices.

  • Drive cloud adoption microservices API-first architecture and automation across CI/CD pipelines.

Domain Expertise in Financial Systems

  • Translate financial business needs into scalable compliant technical solutions.

  • Architect systems for market data ingestion trade lifecycle workflows risk calculations and reporting.

  • Ensure platform design adheres to industry regulations (e.g. SOX SEC FINRA PCI privacy standards).

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Serve as a senior technical authority partnering with product business architecture cybersecurity and infrastructure teams.

  • Mentor senior engineers fostering an engineering culture focused on excellence and continuous improvement.

  • Lead technical deep dives architecture councils and executive-level technical communication.

Operational Excellence

  • Ensure platforms achieve high availability low latency disaster recovery readiness and strong observability.

  • Lead incident analysis rootcause identification and systemic improvements.

  • Promote DevOps SRE principles and end-to-end platform resilience.

Requirements of the Role:

  • 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience including 3 years in a principal/staff-level role.

  • Expertise building distributed systems event-driven architecture and cloud-native applications.

  • Strong proficiency in one or more languages (e.g. Java C# Python Go).

  • Experience with public cloud (AWS is a plus)

  • Solid understanding of financial systems products and data flows.

  • Exposure/Experience in Snowflake is a Plus

  • 3 years ReactJS experience

  • 5 years experience in SQL Server/RDBMS

  • Demonstrated ability to lead architecture for large-scale mission-critical systems.

  • Fixed Income knowledge is a plus.

  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invescos Workplace Policy employees are expected to comply with the firms 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 others 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.

Invescos 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.


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