Sr. BA., Invest Tech - Atlanta, United States - Invesco

Description

Job Description

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

We're seeking a Senior Business analyst to join a technology team which is embedded with our Custom Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) business. In this position, you will work closely with the business team to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge capabilities in support of Invesco's separately managed accounts business. You'll be expected to have basic investments knowledge to collect and visualize investment processes quickly and accurately. The environment is demanding, and you will be challenged. We expect that you are fluent in data and application integration. You'll be a part of a dynamic, collaborative team that wants to hear your input because you have a sound foundation in technology and appreciate the nuances of investment processes.

As a Senior Business Analyst, Investment Technology, you will be working on a squad that builds global trading applications and global trading data platforms. This role includes working on requirements from business that enables the global trading organization to automate workflows and better make data driven decisions to improve execution quality. Additional responsibilities include working to meet development standards and best practices, DevOps pipelines and security standards, and adhering to the foundation which meet the long-term goals in terms of functionality, supportability, extendibility, and scalability. This role also provides an opportunity to explore the latest technology stack to improve the current business model

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with business partners to identify data patterns and themes, and translate them into reportable formats
• Work closely with business analysts and product owners to breakdown data requirements into development tasks
• Deliver curated data sets to the business for report generation
• Deliver real time data for use by traders directly into the execution management system to implement systematic trading algorithms
• Contribute to the buildout of robust data pipelines using modern data engineering technology stack and Cloud architecture
• Management of application and data integration platforms using AWS Cloud Components
• Enable the full life cycle of projects: planning, design, development, testing and rollout that conforms to Agile Standards

Work Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years of working as a Business Analyst in Financial Services/Asset Management
• Working experience on Oracle/ SQL Server
• Working knowledge data presentation layers (Power BI, Tableau)
• Working knowledge in Python programming
• Working experience of Agile methodology
• Familiarity with AWS cloud platform
• Securities industry knowledge
• Knowledge of Trading systems like EzeCastle or CRD
• Knowledge of "Perform" portfolio management system
• Knowledge of Order management system experience

Skills/Other Personal Attributes Required:

• Ability to pivot to new technologies as they become available. Keep pace with a constantly changing environment.
• Willingness to adopt a test driven development approach and automate tests using appropriate tools
• Comfortable working with ambiguity (e.g. imperfect data, loosely defined concepts, ideas, or goals) and translating these into more tangible outputs.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, matched with comparable written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated. Capable of working independently and iteratively, but also able to actively contribute and participate as a team player.

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.

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

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.