Job Description

Recruiter
Kristy Gilmore
Opportunity Overview
Edward Jones is seeking a Technical Lead to lead a team of developers supporting our portfolio management and advisory trading technology initiatives for our Canadian business unit. The position will lead the development and integration of new applications and enhancements to existing applications into multiple technology platforms that comprise our Canadian-specific suite of digital products. Those products are used by over 800 Canadian branch teams to serve their clients and manage their practice. This position will support our strategic initiatives for Edward Jones Canada, serving as a technology thought leader and ensuring teams follow development best practices in completing day today work.
What You'll Do:

• Drive technology standards and patterns
• Correlate non-functional requirements to technology patterns that ensure SLAs are met
• Collaborate with solution architects, product, and engineering managers
• Guide and mentor teams on integration of business software across the supported product platform while ensuring software is built with performance, scalability and resiliency in mind
• Act as a senior Kafka application developer with emphasis on Java, occasionally working on non-Kafka Java efforts
• Design and develop new Kafka applications, using previous experiences and industry best practices
• Maintain existing Kafka apps to enhance the existing business functionality and make continuous improvements
• Support existing Kafka apps in a critical production environment; create/update documentation and support procedures; cross train other team members to effectively support the system as well
• Help the team in developing new web applications and maintain existing applications utilizing modern web technologies such as Spring, REST, React, JavaScript/jQuery, Thymeleaf, JPA, Kubernetes, Junit, Selenium, and RestAssured
• Work with open systems tech such as MongoDB, Oracle DB, Spring Batch, Linux shell/bash scripting
• Translate business requirements into system design, work directly with a product owner or business analyst on user story refinement, prepare detailed technical specifications, and provide story point estimates
• Perform tech lead role under minimal direction to design, code, test, debug, and maintain software
• Provide system support, including on-call rotation, troubleshoot, and resolve complex system issues
• Provide guidance, training and mentorship to other associates, including performing code peer reviews, suggesting best practices and following SDLC processes

Position Type
Home Office - Canada
Position Schedule
Full-Time
Company Description
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
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External Flexible Work Option(s)
Hybrid
Awards and Accolades
At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.
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Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• 15+ years of technology experience
• 5+ years of architectural experience
• Expert in multiple technology domains
• Deep understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Strong technical leadership and collaboration skills
• Strong documentation skills
• Strong mentoring skills, able to educate and upskill others
• Comfortable presenting ideas to technical, non-technical, and leadership audiences
• Conceptual understanding of business, security, and data architectures
• Ability to influence all levels in a matrixed organization
• Establish and maintain effective relationships across departments, business areas, and vendors
• Embraces change and helps others adapt

Communication:

• Must be vocal and highly collaborative
• Able to articulate complex content in a non-complex way
• Excellent interpersonal skills, seen as credible and trustworthy
• Effective communicator, able to interact with all levels of technology and business partners
• Fosters open communication by actively listening to others
• Presents ideas, thoughts, arguments, and information persuasively
• Actively builds and maintains productive relationships and networks of internal/external contacts
• Can build confidence, support, and effective collaboration among superiors, peers, and functional areas when discussing technology solutions

"Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Mississauga, ON home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with a preference for Tuesday through Thursday."
Salary Information
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. 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.

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