Sr Technical Architect

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Republic
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000 branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work. In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors. At Edward Jones we are developing a next-generation data platform to support our growing business. As part of the Operational Data Technology team, you will be challenged daily to find innovative solutions to improve the speed and consumption of our information. This will also bring you into contact with a diverse array of stakeholders ranging from IT to our front line business organizations, and you will be working on a data platform that establishes the foundational layer for Edward Jones applications and analytics for years to come. What you'll do: --- You will lead the technical architecture for the ODS teams. --- Work with enterprise architecture and portfolio architects to define and obtain consensus of the designed architecture --- Work with the team to build out the Operational Data Platform in the cloud that is high performance (high throughput and low latency), secure, HA and scalable. --- Help team to build out ETL framework for data ingress, develop and extend the data model and deliver performant code and tuned database. --- Hands on development lead to build out API framework --- Actively pursues pure research across multiple layers and or disciplines; assists in the deployment of new technologies not previously in use at Edward Jones. --- Must apply architecture principles across multiple layers to solve business or technical problems --- Keeps abreast of current developments and trends in multiple areas of expertise --- Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments --- Strong Analytical and technical skills are required --- Good communication and presentation skills to be able to interact with business stakeholders --- Work closely with support teams, systems and business leads to promote technical and functional upgrades, enhancements, and best practices/industry standards --- Focus on continuous improvement to drive a seamless, modernized associate/user experience --- Participate in the analysis, design, develop, testing, and implementation activities within the areas of responsibility --- Assist, mentor, and train other team members --- Work closely with support teams and support manager to address incidents and problem queues, ensuring proper prioritization Bachelor---s degree in computer science, Engineering or Management Information Technology preferred or related work experience --- Minimum 15 years of experience across multiple technology areas. Must have international experience. --- Must be able to design and develop IT architecture solutions to support firm business strategies. --- Must be able to solve technical challenges in critical situations that require immediate resolution. --- Researches requirements to determine system feasibility, costs, business benefits, or functional requirements. --- Proficient in leading IS problem solving --- Expert in our system and business operations --- Modern knowledge across multiple IS disciplines including but not limited to Network, Mainframes, Storage, relational databases, and Web development. --- Specific modern knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, Standard IBM products (Z/OS, CICS and DB2), Standard Microsoft products (Vista, XP, Exchange, Office, Outlook), J2EE, Java, Oracle and Linux. --- Participates in discovering talent both organically and externally --- Ability to influence all levels in a matrixed organization --- Establish and maintain effective relationships across departments, business areas, and vendors. Excellent interpersonal skills. Seen as credible and trustworthy. --- Ability to multi-task and participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects. --- Ensure prudent use of the firm's financial resources --- Knowledge of brokerage or financial company processes --- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in work --- Embraces change and consider different approaches to issues --- Takes personal responsibility to improve processes and systems. --- Strong understanding of project management concepts Preferred: --- Experience with Microservice Architecture and API development --- Extensive hands-on knowledge with SQL, NoSQL, and other big data platforms (Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB, Snowflake) --- Extensive hands-on experience with Spark framework, PL/SQL, ETL tools, Data modeling, Database performance tuning, Kafka (or related real time messaging framework) --- Proficient in multiple languages, with focus on Java development and Python 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For-- By Great Place to Work-- and FORTUNE Magazine --- Edward Jones was named No. 20 on the list. From FORTUNE --2021 FORTUNE Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license. FORTUNE and FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For are registered trademarks of Fortune Media IP Limited and are used under license. FORTUNE and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of, Edward Jones Investments. 2021 Corporate Equality Index --- Edward Jones joins the ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the Foundation---s 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality. From The Human Rights Campaign. All Rights Reserved 2021 Training Top 100 list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list. J.D. Power, 2021 --- Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study. Edward Jones received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies of employee advisors--- satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more information. Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate: Salary: $128299 - $218456 Category: Headquarters

Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Springfield , Sr Technical Architect, IT / Software / Systems , Republic, Missouri