Sr. Principal Coach (Houston, Texas)

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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 ver y 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:
Enterprise Architecture, Platforms, and Practices (EAPP) is on a journey to evolve into an industry-leading capability with standardized deliverables, governance, engagement models, tools and processes that will enable technology transformation and ensure the consistency of architecture practices at scale across the company.

About the Role:

We're seeking a visionary leader who can architect and lead a data-driven strategy to measure and accelerate productivity, efficiency, and secure development practices across agile teams. This role sits at the intersection of engineering excellence, agile transformation, and security, and will be instrumental in shaping how we define, implement, and measure best practices across the enterprise.

Responsibilities of the Role:

· Design and lead the development of analytics frameworks that measure team productivity, velocity, quality, and security posture. Drive requirements for the development of transformation dashboards and reporting tools that provide actionable insights to engineering leadership, coaches and teams.

· Partner with Agile Coaches, DevSecOps, and Software & Quality Engineering leaders to define and evolve best practices for secure software development. Translate qualitative and quantitative data into strategic recommendations for continuous improvement.

· Collaborate with engineers and analysts to build scalable data pipelines and models. Ensure data integrity, governance, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

· Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights that influence investment decisions and transformation roadmaps. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to align metrics with business outcomes.

Requirements of the Role:

· 8+ years in analytics, engineering, or agile transformation roles.

· Deep familiarity with agile metrics (e.g., cycle time, lead time, DORA metrics, story point velocity).

· Experience with secure SDLC practices and DevSecOps principles.

· Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

· Strategic Thinker with a strong understanding of agile/lean methodologies and secure software development.

· Technical Expertise in data engineering, analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Harness, Planview etc.), and cloud-native environments.

· Change Agent who thrives in ambiguity and can drive adoption of new practices through influence and data storytelling.

· Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments with complex team structures and regulatory requirements.

Full Time / Part Time

Worker Type

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invesco's Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm's 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 other's 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.

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.