Department Leader - Platform Services

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.

Team Overview :

In 2022, Edward Jones invested $1 billion in technology infrastructure, digital initiatives, and virtual business enablement tools. We're currently in the test and learn phase and are looking for talented, motivated professionals, that want to be part of this transformational journey. Cloud-based architecture and modern technical capabilities will enable us to grow our impact while providing the best client experience possible.

What You'll Do:

Our Digital Organization is looking for you to join our team as a dynamic and strategic person to drive the architecture, engineering, and operations for Middleware and Platforms. You will work cross functionally to further Edward Jones strategy of agnostic infrastructure for its application development organizations.

Here are a few of the key responsibilities that you will be a part of:

• Drive the architecture, engineering, and delivery of the middleware development framework in an as-a-service model to ensure that application development teams are agnostic to underlying infrastructure and cloud complexities
• Drive creation of reusable libraries, APIs, Microservices, templates and tools needed to monitor, observe, and operate applications in a unified way
• Oversee the architecture of Kubernetes platforms, both on-premises and in public cloud
• Manage the implementation and operation of WebLogic and similar middleware technologies and create a pathway for migration towards Kubernetes and Cloud
• Drive cross-functional teams and drive the platform as a product
• Drive strategy, relationships, and alignments with the application product teams to set standards for application architecture
• Develop and manage requisite governance practices to ensure effective application onboarding, performance management, and operations.
• Partner with applicable teams to ensure that capabilities are in place to achieve modern security, application development, testing, observability, and operational requirements.
• Ensure deep understanding of delivery timelines and critical paths
• Ensure adherence with all financial services industry regulatory, security, and compliance requirements
• Partner with DevOps team to ensure alignment and governance around CI/CD pipelines and automated baseline testing of applications

What You'll Need :

• Bachelor's Degree or related work experience
• Container Production Experience with Kubernetes (ECS/EKS, GKE, or similar) and Docker
• 10+ years' experience related to Technology Including :
  • Knowledge of WebLogic and other similar Middleware technologies
  • Delivering Complex solutions with automation, CI/CD and self-healing capabilities
  • Delivering security-focused solutions using CI/CD pipeline technologies
  • Strategic thought leadership in operating Middleware and platforms in public/private hybrid cloud operations
  • Transforming teams from legacy practices to automation and software-defined models
  • ITIL or similar Process knowledge with a track record of implementing operational best practices
  • Supporting large, complex environments and managing Middleware/Platform Operations at scale
  • CI/CD and application of DevSecOps mindset and principles (use and architecture)

What Could Set You Apart:

• Experience in operating platforms in a regulated financial institution

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: