What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at EDWARD JONES?
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.
It's an exciting time to be at Edward Jones! We are in the midst of a full-scale modernization of core systems, creating new ones, embracing cloud-based architectures, and building a strong foundation for decades of expected growth. We are looking for an exceptional technical leader to join our Investment Advice and Monitoring product team as Solutions Architect.
As a Solutions Architect, you will help define the architecture that helps scale the firm's best advice and guidance to be integrated across many of our advisor tools. Specifically, you will work alongside two other architects to design of our Investment Research, Portfolio Optimization, Portfolio Diagnostics, and Tax Efficiency capabilities and ensure we are one step ahead of what the development teams need to continue building.
Using and informing enterprise strategies, you will build technology roadmaps at both the organizational and functional levels. Your architecture will encompass SaaS systems, custom cloud applications, and on-premises applications. You will be mentoring agile teams in the integration of functionality across multiple platforms.
Solution Architects work closely with product delivery developers, product owners, and product managers within their organization, across Technology functions and Firm business groups. Solution Architects also promote technical and functional application upgrades, enhancements, and industry-standard approaches to their product teams and business leaders.
Essential Responsibilities and Tasks:
• Design and architect Investment Advice and Monitoring platforms combining SaaS systems, custom cloud applications, and on-premises applications.
• Guide and mentor teams on architecture, design, and integration of business software across multiple product platforms while ensuring solutions are built with performance, scalability, and resiliency in mind.
• Focus on continuous delivery to drive a seamless, modernized associate/user experience
• Participate in the analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation activities within the areas of responsibility.
• Assist, mentor, and train other team members.
• Build strong partnerships and relationships with stakeholders in Product Management, UX, PMO, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure and Security.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple concurrent needs
• Understanding of Product Teams and Agile methodology and practices
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Ability to communicate equally clearly with both technical and non-technical team members.
Position Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Management Information Systems preferred or related work experience.
• 7 years of experience designing, developing and delivering application solutions for enterprise-level development and integration projects.
• Practical knowledge of microservices and designing/building REST APIs, as well as API management solutions such as MuleSoft
• Experience with industry-standard tools: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, JUnit, Gradle, and Maven
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database solutions.
• Experience with Linux containerization, PaaS, and Cloud technologies
• Experience with cloud-native architectures a plus
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- 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.
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