About Invesco

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

About the Department/Team:

The Investment & Distribution Services team is responsible for all Global Investment Services Technology projects and programs across the globe. The team is closely partnered with many business executives and functional teams across all aspects of Invesco's IDS business, using Agile delivery methods and collaboration to provide automated and innovative solutions.

About the Role:

As an agile project manager, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and motivating project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering projects that provide exceptional business value. The agile project manager is also responsible for managing several concurrent IT projects using agile and/or waterfall methods in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business divisions. This position may play different roles in actual practice:

• Leading and managing large, complex enterprise-level projects consisting of cross-regional IT teams and/or requiring integration with other activities outside the scope of the IT team

• At a team level, playing a consultative role to help put in place the appropriate people, process, and tools and coaching members of the team as needed to optimize the efficiency of the project team

• In situations that require a hybrid Agile approach, using good judgment and skill to develop a project management approach that is suitable for planning and managing the effort to achieve the project goals within designated project constraints

In performing these roles, the agile project manager will be expected to use a high level of knowledge and experience in blending traditional project management principles and practices with an Agile development approach in the right proportions to fit large, complex, mission-critical, enterprise-level projects and with the appropriate level of planning and provide the right balance of agility and predictability.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Agile Pipeline and Scrum Management

• Schedule and facilitate all Scrum events

• Assist team members with the creation and tracking of Features, Epics, and User stories

• Collaborate with Product Owner and business partners to gather new requirements and features

• Work with vendors and third-party business partners to ensure alignment on capability, perform required upgrades, and system integration when required

• Work with product owners and product managers to ensure backlogs are prioritized and ready for the next sprint

• Facilitate technical discussions with Architects and Developers to resolve technical challenges the team encounters

• Acts as safeguard for the team by improving transparency and removing impediments

• Ensure escalation of unresolved issues to proper personnel

• Planning and execution of changes, incidents, production processes, controls, and service requests

• Project Planning and Management

• Define project scope and schedule while focusin