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It's an exciting time to work in tech at Edward Jones. We are making massive investments in emerging technologies to improve how we work with our clients and with each other. Relationships are the focus of our business model. And working in Technology here means using your skills to build, deliver and maintain the technologies that enable us to deepen and support those relationships. The best part? We develop and create our own industry-leading solutions internally. And you can be a part of it. Working with emerging new technologies. Creating platforms, programs and experiences that change how we work together - and support our client-first focus. Changing the future of our firm, the industry and the advisor-client relationship.
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Job Overview
Position Schedule: Full-Time
Director of Strategic Initiative Management will both be responsible for the execution and successful delivery of large, cross product enterprise epics or initiatives that require coordination and alignment across multiple areas of Digital (e.g., DPM, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Production Services) and lead a team of high-level individual contributor initiative managers on their own initiative. Requires influence over the system of teams doing the work across multiple organizations, portfolios, and technology teams.
What you'll do:
- Domain and subject matter expertise is crucial in making functional and technical design decisions.
- Drive stakeholders, product, and technology agile teams to ensure the requirements, designs and outcomes are measurable and appropriate.
- Responsible for overall technology design, budget, and implementation for the efforts, ensuring a coherent and unified approach to solution development and delivery with built in quality and measurement metrics (e.g., Burn Downs, Say/Do, etc).
- Partner with Senior Business and Digital Leaders, strategic vendors, and other internal supporting organizations to identify, analyze, and manage risks throughout the solution development lifecycle, ensuring that risk mitigation strategies are in place, and ensuring compliance with relevant legal, regulatory, and organizational policies.
- End-to-end execution leader of the effort.
In the leadership component of this role, the leader will develop and implement a personnel structure that supports successful achievement of objectives in their specific area of responsibilities.
- Implement a robust people process to find, train, support, retain and advance a winning team.
- Develop a successful plan for their role and the leaders for which they are responsible.
- Challenge and contribute knowledge, time, and expertise to find answers.
- Measures of success will include successful delivery of Enterprise Epics/Initiatives, risk mitigation, cost, quality, schedule management and business value realization.
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:
Hiring Minimum: $163886
Hiring Maximum: $279048
Skills/Requirements
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or Management Information Systems required or related work experience.
- Extensive experience (8-10 years) in managing one or more of a variety of technical fields including software engineering, technical program management, technical architecture, and complex, large-scale implementations.
- Three (3) of those years should include hands-on experience in the functional areas of responsibility.
- Five (5) years' experience should include responsibility for day-to-day support teams, two or more teams of people or projects concurrently.
- Experience in leading multi-locational teams comprised of leaders, associates, and SaaS or consulting partners without direct management responsibilities for those team members.
- Domain and subject matter expertise in the related functions and technologies.
- Expertise in large scale platform conversions/implementation.
- Expertise in large scale platform functional and non-functional testing.
- Metrics driven software engineering leader.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Solid understanding of technology and development, enabling informed oversight and decision-making in the technical domain.
- Expertise in Agile and/or Scaled Agile delivery and product mindset.
- Leadership, strategy, and communication skills required.
- Well-versed in establishing, monitoring, and executing plans and metrics.
What will set you apart:
- Global focus with knowledge in technology directions, laws, cultural differences and managing global organizations a plus.
Awards & Accolades
- 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work® data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
- 2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine, ranking No. 45.
- 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® ranking by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
- 2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality, Great Place to Work® in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
- Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality.
About Us
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.
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.
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