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Senior Engineer, Invest Tech

Invesco · Downers Grove, IL · $135,000–$145,000 a year · Full time

Posted Jun 26, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about an application you built that supported portfolio construction, trading or analytics. What were the hardest technical problems?

What they are checking: Whether they have built real investment systems and understand where their complexity lies.

How do you work with portfolio managers and quant researchers to turn their ideas into production code?

What they are checking: Whether they collaborate closely and help researchers move prototypes into reliable systems.

Tell me about a time you mentored another engineer or improved your team's practices.

What they are checking: Whether they raise the level of the team, which a senior engineer is expected to do.

What would you do

A job that feeds the trading desk fails at 7am. Walk me through what you do.

What they are checking: Whether they can triage under pressure, communicate with users and fix the root cause afterward.

The business wants a feature fast, but it would add technical debt. How do you decide?

What they are checking: Whether they weigh business urgency against long-term cost and make the tradeoff visible.

About the work

How would you design a service that generates rebalance trades for hundreds of ETFs before market open?

What they are checking: Whether they think about performance, correctness, timing and failure recovery for a deadline-driven workflow.

Equities, fixed income and alternatives data look very different. How would you build a platform that handles all three?

What they are checking: Whether they can design flexible data models without forcing every asset class into one shape.

What practices do you use to make sure financial calculations in your code are correct?

What they are checking: Whether they use testing, reconciliation and peer review because errors here cost real money.

How do you think about scaling a system when the number of ETFs or data volumes keeps growing?

What they are checking: Whether they design for growth with sensible architecture rather than patching performance later.

How do you handle security and access control for systems that touch trading and portfolio data?

What they are checking: Whether they treat sensitive financial data and trading access with appropriate care.

What would you look at first when a portfolio analytics query starts taking minutes instead of seconds?

What they are checking: Whether they troubleshoot performance methodically using query plans, indexing and profiling.

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The full job description

As published by Invesco.

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 Role: We are seeking a Senior Engineer, Investment Technology to design, build, and support capabilities for the Invesco ETF platform, including applications and workflows that power portfolio construction, trading, analytics, and operational processes across Equities, Fixed Income, and Alternatives. This role will partner closely with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and business teams to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that support both technology-owned platforms and business-driven workflows (e.g., co-developed tools such as dashboards and portfolio management utilities). The engineer will play a key role in modernizing the platform architectures while improving data pipelines, system reliability, and development standards. You will work in a fast-paced environment requiring strong expertise in data engineering, application development, and distributed systems, with a focus on building resilient, production-grade solutions and reducing operational risk. The role requires a hands-on mindset, strong ownership, and the ability to collaborate across global team. Responsibilities of the Role: • AI‑accelerated engineering: institutionalize daily use of AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, AWS Bedrock) for coding, tests, documentation, and prototyping; set review standards for AI‑generated code. • Design, build, and maintain data engineering workflows and platform services supporting the Vision platform and model delivery ecosystem. • Develop and extend platform components responsible for data ingestion, transformation, validation, and routing across internal and external systems. • Build robust Python-based services, APIs, and microservices supporting portfolio analytics, optimization workflows, and data pipelines. • Design and optimize SQL-based data processing (PostgreSQL, SQL Server), including complex queries, performance tuning, and large-scale ETL workflows. • Implement and support distributed, event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, asynchronous workflows) for scalable platform execution. • Develop and maintain cloud-native applications on AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Aurora). • Design and operate CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to ensure reliable and repeatable releases. • Ensure data quality, auditability, and observability through logging, monitoring, lineage tracking, and validation frameworks. • Collaborate closely with investment teams to translate portfolio construction, risk, and analytics requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Continuously improve the platform through modern engineering practices, including testing, performance optimization, and AI assisted development. • Participate in production support and on-call rotation as needed. Requirements of the Role: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field. • 3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering or data engineering (financial services or asset management experience preferred). • 3+ years of Python experience, including data processing, APIs, or service-based architecture. • 3+ years of SQL experience (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Snowflake), including performance tuning and ETL workflows. • AI‑assisted development fluency: daily use of AI tools for coding, test generation, refactoring, documentation, and design exploration—plus the ability to evaluate/correct AI‑generated code for security, performance, and maintainability. • Strong understanding of data engineering principles (data modeling, pipelines, validation, lineage, error handling). • Experience with cloud-native development (AWS) and containerized environments. , • Familiarity with distributed systems and event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka, asynchronous processing). • Experience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and automated testing. • Exposure to portfolio analytics, risk models, or investment workflows preferred. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. Formal Education: • Bachelor’s in Statistics, Computer Science or other similar advanced degrees from a top tier educational institution preferred • CFA, CPA, CIPM, CAIA, and/or FRM preferred, but not required. The salary range for this position in Downers Grove, IL is $135,000 - $145,000 year. The total compensation offered for this position includes salary and incentive pay and will vary based on skills, experience and location Full Time / Part Time Full time Worker Type Employee Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes 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.

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