Principal Business Analyst, Invest Tech

Principal Business Analyst

As a Principal Business Analyst in the Fixed Income Technology team, you will work closely with portfolio managers, traders, research analysts, quants, compliance and risk managers, and operations staff who support Invesco's fixed income business. You will also partner with technology team members such as developers and QA specialists, as well as external vendors.

You will bring deep experience with fixed income business workflows and systems to help define requirements that enable investment teams to automate processes, introduce new capabilities, and make better data-driven decisions to improve investment outcomes and execution quality.

You will help create solutions that meet the firm's long-term goals in functionality, supportability, extensibility, and scalability.

This role also provides an opportunity to explore the latest technology stack to enhance the current business model.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Liaising with business partners to identify investment needs and gaps relative to current functionality and translating them into technology requirements.

• Acting as the subject matter expert on fixed income business workflows.

• Partnering with developers and product owners to ensure successful outcomes.

• Interfacing with vendors such as BlackRock Systems, Bloomberg, and Perform.

• Supporting the full lifecycle of projects: planning, design, development, testing, and rollout; in alignment with Agile standards

Requirements of the Role:

• Minimum 10 years of experience working in, or supporting, fixed income investment teams, preferably in asset management firms.

• Hands-on experience with Aladdin, with strong knowledge of its modules, capabilities, and limitations.

• Strong understanding of business workflows and how systems such as Aladdin, Bloomberg, and Perform support various types of business users.

• Experience working with database and reporting systems (preferably PowerBI).

• Familiarity with Agile methodology.

• Ability to adapt to new technologies as they become available and keep pace with a constantly changing environment.

• 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, along with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Self-motivated, capable of working independently and iteratively, while also contributing effectively as a team player.

• Working knowledge of Python programming is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with cloud-based development is a plus.

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.