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Principal AWS Solution Architect

Invesco
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Aug 2024

About the role

As one of the world’s leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. 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, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, come explore your potential at Invesco. Make a difference every day!

Job Description

As one of the world’s leading asset managers, we are solely dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, explore your potential at Invesco

The Department

Our mission is to create world-class, client-centric technology 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 the diversity of thought. Our success is driven by our people, which is why we invest heavily in our talent, promoting continuous learning and development, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies, and creating the space to discover.

Our high-performing, OneTech team is seeking candidates who innovate, operate effectively in an agile environment, challenges the status quo and are driven to succeed.

Your Role

Are you ready to be a part of the Financial Services Industry, where cutting-edge technology can deliver a competitive advantage? As an AWS Solutions Architect, you are responsible for designing and implementing enterprise infrastructure and platforms required for running our workloads in AWS. You will work with cloud engineers and application teams to design and deploy infrastructure required. You’ll also deliver proof-of-concept projects, topical workshops, and lead implementation projects. Our team collaborates across the entire Invesco organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive future innovation based upon our business needs.

You will be responsible for:

  • Lead and collaborate with application teams, guiding them through our Cloud Infrastructure Delivery process to ensure seamless implementation of AWS solutions.

  • Analyze business requirements and translate them into innovative technical solutions that leverage approved AWS services and supporting infrastructure to enable our Application & Data Solution Architecture.

  • Produce clear and concise diagrams and narratives that vividly describe your solutions, demonstrating how they meet business requirements while adhering to our technology governance guidelines.

  • Foster positive relationships and effective communication with key partners, including business partners, Application leads, and other Infrastructure functions (Engineering, Operations, etc.).

  • Collaborate closely with various stakeholders, such as business users, project managers, developers, enterprise architecture, data architecture, testers, and operations teams, leveraging strong communication skills to facilitate effective translation of business requirements into technical designs.

  • Take a holistic approach, considering the big picture and aligning the technical solution with the overall business goals and objectives. Anticipate future needs and design scalable architectures that ensure long-term success and integrity of the entire solution.

The experience you bring:

  • 10+ years of experience in information technology

  • 2-3 years proven track record as an AWS Solutions Architect or Senior Cloud Engineer role

  • Hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale on AWS

  • Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required

  • Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, GDPR)

  • Strong Knowledge of the primary AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, Route53 & S3).

  • Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. Terraform, Python, PowerShell).

  • Ability to work in a team environment. Hybrid model with 3 days in office per week.

  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize work, and meet deadlines.

  • Practical AWS skill in Management Console, AWS CLI, and supporting technologies.

  • Experience in AWS Well Architected Frame

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