Assoc Director, Digital Dist & Ent Eng

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Job Description

Your Team
At Invesco Technology team, our mission is to build premier, client-centric technology solutions that drive competitive advantage, grow our global business, and deliver an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. This mission is fueled by inventive and cohesive teams, which thrive on collaboration and shared trust, and leverage diversity of thought. Our success is driven by our people, which is why we invest heavily in our talent, promoting continuous learning & development, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies, and creating the space to discover.
Your Role
The role is critical to ensure the delivery of digital capabilities across Invesco by leading the function to ensure funded projects are driven effectively and efficiently assuring delivery on time and within budget.
You Will Be Responsible For:

The four main pillars of success in this role would be:

• Delivery Focus: Ensuring strong delivery & executional excellence, managing the day-to-day planning and operations of project implementation, driving and motivating the team by championing it. Being hands on and exhibiting extreme ownership. Ensuring projects are staffed with the right personnel for the job with the necessary skills, experience, knowledge, and abilities. Identifies potential risks involved in a project and develops plans to mitigate the same.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Helping to drive the overall distribution technology strategy by partnering with the leadership post reviewing the business and the technology landscape. Working with external stakeholders such as clients or other departments within the organization to ensure that projects meet their requirements. Communicating with clients to gather inputs about the project needs and provides status updates. Working very closely with local product owners to assure local roadmaps are up to date. Maintaining ongoing conversation to ensure a continuous dialogue.

• Tech Leadership: Leading a team of project managers, scrum masters and other partners involved in the projects. Working closely with the technology leadership to drive the resource planning for different functions based on the local strategies. Championing the agile framework and ways of working. Developing project management methodology and tools that can be used across functions. Streamlining the recurring reports & tracking processes to enable the organization to be up to date on latest industry developments and improve productivity and efficiency. Developing and managing a distribution technology site (moving away from e-mails) that becomes a one-stop shop for all communication, documentation, calendars etc. for both the business and technology. Overseeing budgetary requirements including annual planning and major expenditure request process.

• Driving Engagement: Looking after the team’s morale by engaging them meaningfully. Being the culture #GreaterPossibilitiesTogether career and investing in developing the team’s strengths & capabilities. Developing and executing communications, story lines and presentations, including town halls and leadership off-sites to communicate the linkage between everyday work and business objectives to the team. Handling communication channels between the team and the organization across all the levels.

The Experience You Bring:

• Proven experience of 15 to 18 years as a product manager, product owner or a similar role in software development

• Experience in people management with a demonstrated ability to coach and develop talent

• Strong leadership with sound verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to collaborate with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders

• Agile product management capabilities, especially with large scale, distributed web products

• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making

• Ability to breakdown complex global problems into simple solutions focused on the customer needs

• Focus on data-driven approaches to solve problems and to accelerate the learning process to validate solutions

• Experience in agile development tools such as Jira and Confluence to create user stories and author product documentation

• Collaborative and influential approach to appropriately engage with team members to accomplish objectives

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment in a professional and timely manner

Academic requirements:

• B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science / IT

• MBA / M.Tech is preferred

General Role Profile
• Generally, leads through subordinate leaders who execute upon the Area’s goals and objectives
• Accountable for the performance and results of related Areas
• Executes business plans and contributes to the development of Area strategy
• Focuses on short to mid-term issues that will impact the Area or operation
• Decisions are guided by Area strategy and priorities
Knowledge
• Requires comprehensive understanding of internal and industry standards, as well as of the changing business environment
• Recognized expert on technical or business issues, most often within own domain or job family
• Interprets business results
Business Acumen
• Applies industry expertise and commercial awareness to drive financial and operational performance within Area or job family group
Problem Solving
• Directs the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems applying advance analytical thought and judgement
Impact
• Impacts results of part of a Business Unit by providing support to impact the firm
• Guided by Area strategy
Leadership
• Leads through subordinate managers of managers
• Executes Areas/regional strategy
Influence and Partnership
• Negotiates with and influences others internally and externally, including senior executives within the Firm and vendors and/or regulators

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

YesWorkplace 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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