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.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
DEVELOPMENT – 30%
- Provide development for small changes (<120 hours) and any assigned project work for supported applications as requested
- Complete all tasks related to technical analysis, development, unit testing, quality assurance, system testing, and implementation in accordance with the IT development life cycle.
- Assist project and line managers in producing estimates for the development effort required for system enhancements
- Ability to analyze requirements / problems and to propose innovative but workable solutions
- Adhere to all Invesco standards for support and change management activities.
- Create system support documentation for all developed applications, ensuring it is kept up to date within application profiles and included as part of support turnover
- Provide weekly updates on enhancement activities so clients are current on completed work
- Coordinate and participate in testing for in-house and vendor developed software applications.
- Interact with key vendors to ensure their changes/improvements/upgrades meet client requirements and internal technology standards.
SUPPORT – 60%
- Support the Investment and compliance Production Environment as a priority
- Provide production support as needed to backup support team as well as out of hours, weekend, and bank holiday support, when required, as agreed with manager
- Assist with regular system upgrades on applications by reviewing functionality changes (new/amended), system testing, client training and updating of support documentation
- Escalate issues and remediation steps effectively and in a timely manner.
- Perform troubleshooting analysis and resolution of critical applications and batch processes.
- Coordinate with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
OTHER – 10%
- Attend scheduled meetings with manager/Department/Town Hall presentations
- Become familiar with company methodologies around ToT/Agile
- Actively participate with manager in creating personal development plan
- Provide the manager with ideas to enhance or improve team processes and procedures and ensure agreed procedures are followed
- Attend scheduled training sessions
- Administrative activities – time sheets/compliance requests
Work Experience / Knowledge:
- Minimum 5 to 9 years of analyzing business or technical problems, and of proposing and implementing solutions.
- Must have a technical knowledge of system/software support in the Investment Management Industry.
Specific Technical Skills Required:
- Experienced in Java, AWS, SQL, Snowflake, Distributed architecture, Spring boot, Linux
- Securities industry knowledge -- ETF a big plus
- Trading systems like Charles River, Aladdin
- Batch control applications such as AutoSys, UAC
- Any experience in React and API development is added advantage Any Automation skills like Python, Selenium etc.,
Working Conditions:
- Normally works a regular schedule of hours and should be flexible for the timing changes, however hours may vary depending upon the project or assignment. Estimate a shift starting at 8.30 am to until 5.30 pm and 10:30am to 7:30pm
- Hours may include evenings and/or weekends and may include periodic 24 hour a day on call support by pager and/or cell phone.
- Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally. Frequency and duration to be determined by manager.
Inter-Personal Skills / Other Attributes Required:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in an onshore/offshore environment supporting clients in different time zones
- Experience working within the Investment or Financial industry in an IT related role
- Ability to establish priorities, meet deadlines, and concentrate on detailed information in a fast-paced demanding work environment
- Strong problem-solving capabilities with an analytical, methodical approach
- Must have experience of analyzing business or technical problems, and of proposing and implementing solutions
- Must demonstrate a strong customer focused attitude and understand the fundamentals of customer service
- Must be capable of communicating and negotiating effectively with all levels of user.
- Have a strong desire to learn and progress (motivated enough to self learn)
- Must have good organizational and planning skills, able to work under pressure and multi-task
- Willingness to listen to users,
- Excellent verbal and written skills
Formal Education: (minimum requirement to perform job duties)
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems \ Computer Science is preferred or commensurate relevant work experience
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Worker Type
Employee
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Workplace Model
At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.
Why Invesco
In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally.
We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).
What’s in it for you?
As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.
Our benefit policy includes but not limited to:
- Competitive Compensation
- Flexible, Hybrid Work
- 30 days’ Annual Leave + Public Holidays
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Planning
- Group Personal Accident Insurance
- Medical Insurance for Employee and Family
- Annual Health Check-up
- 26 weeks Maternity Leave
- Paternal Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Near site Childcare Facility
- Employee Assistance Program
- Study Support
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- ESG Commitments and Goals
- Business Resource Groups
- Career Development Programs
- Mentoring Programs
- Invesco Cares
- Dress for your Day
In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.
To know more about us
About Invesco: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/home.html
About our Culture: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/about-us/our-culture.html
About our D&I policy: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/diversity-and-inclusion.html
About our CR program: https://www.invesco.com/corporate/en/our-commitments/corporate-responsibility.html
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