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Data Governance Manager roles on OPT require a specialty occupation connection, typically a degree in information systems, data management, computer science, or a related field. Most positions offer a standard 12-month OPT period, with STEM OPT extensions available if your degree qualifies.
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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 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
Job Description
About the Team
The Investment Governance team is responsible for the first-line governance framework that provides for oversight of the investment lifecycle, operating standards, incident management and effective risk mitigation across Invesco’s global investment platform. The team partners with Investments, Capital Markets, Front Office Operations and LCAR functions to strengthen first-line processes, improve decision-making, ensure appropriate escalation, reporting and oversight.
About the Role
The role supports the design, implementation and ongoing operation of Invesco’s global investment governance framework. This includes the development of robust governance documentation and decision-useful management information, advising governance bodies on potential enhancements to ensure appropriate oversight of risks, coordinating investment incident management and reporting processes, analyzing investment lifecycle events and developing operational playbooks to mitigate risk. Working across Investments, Capital Markets, Front Office Operations and the three lines of defense, the role promotes a multi-layered investment governance approach in support of the delivery of good client outcomes. The position reports to the Global Head of Investment Governance.
Responsibilities of the Role
- Provide first-line ownership of investment-related policies, standards, procedures, and guidance.
- Coordinate the intake, assessment, triage, escalation, and governance of investment and trading incidents.
- Ensure consistency of incident records to support better management information and reporting. Track incident remediation plans, accountable owners, and deadlines, and support the delivery of remediation plans within the first line.
- Map investment lifecycle activities and material risks across relevant asset classes and develop playbooks and checklists to support effective risk management and improved decision-making.
- Produce management information, dashboards, and committee reporting on a variety of governance topics.
- Coordinate engagement with Legal, Compliance, Audit, Risk and Controls Assurance on governance topics and investment process enhancements.
- Support the Global Head of Investment Governance on the execution of investment governance initiatives arising out of the design and implementation of Invesco’s global investment governance framework.
Requirements for the Role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, business, risk management, law or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically, five or more years of relevant experience in asset management, investment operations, investment risk, operational risk, governance and controls, compliance, internal audit or front-office business management.
- Strong knowledge of the investment lifecycle, including portfolio management, order generation, trading, post-trade activities, investment data and support processes.
- Experience drafting and maintaining investment, trading, risk or control policies and procedures and supporting audit, assurance or governance reviews.
- Strong organizational, analytical and communication skills, with experience producing clear papers, management information, dashboards and senior-management reporting.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Familiarity with investment data, order management systems, operational resilience or regulatory change is advantageous.
- Relevant professional qualification, or progress towards one, such as CFA, FRM, CAIA, CIA, CPA, CISA or an equivalent credential, is preferred.
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.
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 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
Job Description
About the Team
The Investment Governance team is responsible for the first-line governance framework that provides for oversight of the investment lifecycle, operating standards, incident management and effective risk mitigation across Invesco’s global investment platform. The team partners with Investments, Capital Markets, Front Office Operations and LCAR functions to strengthen first-line processes, improve decision-making, ensure appropriate escalation, reporting and oversight.
About the Role
The role supports the design, implementation and ongoing operation of Invesco’s global investment governance framework. This includes the development of robust governance documentation and decision-useful management information, advising governance bodies on potential enhancements to ensure appropriate oversight of risks, coordinating investment incident management and reporting processes, analyzing investment lifecycle events and developing operational playbooks to mitigate risk. Working across Investments, Capital Markets, Front Office Operations and the three lines of defense, the role promotes a multi-layered investment governance approach in support of the delivery of good client outcomes. The position reports to the Global Head of Investment Governance.
Responsibilities of the Role
- Provide first-line ownership of investment-related policies, standards, procedures, and guidance.
- Coordinate the intake, assessment, triage, escalation, and governance of investment and trading incidents.
- Ensure consistency of incident records to support better management information and reporting. Track incident remediation plans, accountable owners, and deadlines, and support the delivery of remediation plans within the first line.
- Map investment lifecycle activities and material risks across relevant asset classes and develop playbooks and checklists to support effective risk management and improved decision-making.
- Produce management information, dashboards, and committee reporting on a variety of governance topics.
- Coordinate engagement with Legal, Compliance, Audit, Risk and Controls Assurance on governance topics and investment process enhancements.
- Support the Global Head of Investment Governance on the execution of investment governance initiatives arising out of the design and implementation of Invesco’s global investment governance framework.
Requirements for the Role
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, business, risk management, law or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically, five or more years of relevant experience in asset management, investment operations, investment risk, operational risk, governance and controls, compliance, internal audit or front-office business management.
- Strong knowledge of the investment lifecycle, including portfolio management, order generation, trading, post-trade activities, investment data and support processes.
- Experience drafting and maintaining investment, trading, risk or control policies and procedures and supporting audit, assurance or governance reviews.
- Strong organizational, analytical and communication skills, with experience producing clear papers, management information, dashboards and senior-management reporting.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Familiarity with investment data, order management systems, operational resilience or regulatory change is advantageous.
- Relevant professional qualification, or progress towards one, such as CFA, FRM, CAIA, CIA, CPA, CISA or an equivalent credential, is preferred.
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Data Governance Manager
Connect your degree to the role explicitly
Data governance sits at the intersection of technology and compliance. Frame your academic background in information systems, data engineering, or computer science as directly relevant to the role's core requirements when applying and in interviews.
Target employers with established data programs
Large financial institutions, healthcare networks, and technology companies with formal data governance frameworks are more likely to have the infrastructure and HR processes in place to support OPT work authorization without extensive internal education.
Highlight DAMA or CDMP credentials if you have them
Certifications from the Data Management Association signal professional seriousness to hiring managers. Even if you're early in your career, pursuing recognized credentials demonstrates commitment to the field and strengthens your candidacy against non-OPT applicants.
Lead with your OPT timeline early in conversations
Hiring managers appreciate transparency. Clarifying your authorized work period and STEM extension eligibility upfront saves time and positions you as organized and professionally aware, rather than leaving employers to discover authorization details late in the process.
Quantify your data governance project experience
Vague experience descriptions don't differentiate you. Cite specific outcomes from internships or coursework, such as the number of data assets catalogued, policy frameworks drafted, or compliance gaps identified, to demonstrate practical value beyond academic credentials.
Research whether the employer has sponsored OPT or H-1B before
Employers who have previously navigated work authorization are significantly easier to work with. Prior sponsorship history indicates established legal counsel and internal processes, which reduces friction when you eventually need H-1B visa or other long-term visa support.
Data Governance Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can I work as a Data Governance Manager on OPT?
Yes, if your degree is in a qualifying field such as information systems, computer science, data management, or a related discipline, Data Governance Manager roles typically meet the specialty occupation standard required for OPT employment. The position must be directly related to your field of study, which your offer letter and job description should clearly reflect.
Do Data Governance Manager roles qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Many do, but it depends on your specific degree's CIP code. Degrees in computer science, information systems, and data analytics are commonly on the STEM designated list. If your program qualifies, you may be eligible for a 24-month STEM OPT extension beyond your initial 12 months, giving you up to three years of authorized work time.
How do I find Data Governance Manager jobs where employers are open to OPT candidates?
Migrate Mate specializes in surfacing roles where employers are receptive to sponsoring or hiring OPT candidates. Browsing on Migrate Mate filters out much of the noise you'd otherwise face, connecting you with employers who understand work authorization requirements and have a track record of hiring international students in data and technology roles.
What should I include in my resume to strengthen my OPT application for this role?
Beyond your degree, highlight any experience with data cataloguing tools, data quality frameworks, metadata management, or regulatory compliance projects such as GDPR or CCPA implementation. Concrete project outcomes and familiarity with governance platforms like Collibra or Alation are the kinds of specifics that differentiate OPT candidates in a competitive applicant pool.
Will employers require H-1B sponsorship after my OPT period ends?
Most employers hiring for Data Governance Manager roles with OPT candidates understand that H-1B sponsorship is the natural next step. It's worth confirming H-1B sponsorship willingness before accepting an offer. Employers with existing immigration counsel and prior sponsorship experience are best positioned to support you through the H-1B cap and lottery process.