Director

Company: Edward Jones
Location: Tacoma
Posted on: May 22, 2023

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.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.Edward Jones is looking for a strong leader in the Engineering Excellence Team to lead the Center for Enablement. As a director you will help lead our large and growing Quality Engineering departments and enable our Development Experience and API Office practices. Within the Technology organization you will play a key role in driving and Engineering maturity, measuring Quality and adoption of Engineering capabilities across our products as it relates to providing value to the firm's portfolios of digital products.What You'll Do:The Director will lead multiple teams to support the following functions:

• Engineering Excellence Strategist - Excellent knowledge and experience developing strategy and implementing of Quality Practices, Engineering tooling and DevSecOps capabilities, with a strong emphasis on automation around testing, building, and scanning software at an enterprise scale. Experience developing, testing and delivering CI/CD applications in Java and React.
• Delivery Advocate - Experience upgrading legacy applications to new ways of delivering that include security scanning, automated testing, and transparent metrics. Direct involvement in efforts to mature and measure our agile and DevSecOps practices for the organization as it relates to development experience.
• Strong Collaborator: Excellent collaboration and strategic thinking to align department activities, strategies, responsibilities, and objectives with the needs of digital portfolios and drive for the right results. Partners successfully with peers across the Technology Division & among Portfolio Leadership to establish strong relationships to deliver on common value-add goals
• Strategic Thinker: Able to analyze factors and variables to create alignment of department strategies, activities, and objectives with the overall needs of the digital portfolios, while driving for the right results
• Excellent Communicator: Communicates in a direct, honest & empathetic manner with the ability to convey the strategic direction that's understandable at all levels of the organization.
• People Development: Develop leaders responsible to you and develop yourself while internalizing leadership feedback. Build strong relationships across the Quality, API and Development Experience organizations, the Technology division and with the extended product leadership team. Proactively nurture relationships with leaders and associates across the firm and support productive collaboration between teams.
• Talent Sourcer: Experienced in hiring, development planning, talent reviews, succession planning and attracting/retaining a diverse team of leaders and associates. Helping to drive the firm's inclusive culture through participation in relevant groups, both internally and externally. Engaging with the Vendor management strategy to extend our offshore talent model.What You'll Need...
  • Capable of mentoring and communicating a coherent vision for enablement strategy and tool usage
  • Prior experience leading a team of high-level leaders required
  • In Depth knowledge/experience with Development Experience, QE Automation and DevSecOps.
  • Strong knowledge and extensive experience working with product teams to develop appropriate level of testing based on the SDLC (Unit, Integration, API, Smoke, System, Browser compatibility, etc.)
  • Experience in creating a strategic technology direction, aligning it with tactical activities, and communicating plans broadly across the organization.
  • Ability to multi-task and participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects.
  • Strong knowledge and extensive experience delivering in a continuous integration/continuous delivery setting
  • Able to perform analyses to solve complex problems and motivate peers to produce creative products and services
  • Proven ability to clearly communicate across multiple audiences.
  • Proactive, self-motivated, and independent with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.What Sets You Apart:
    • Experience working in a highly automated enterprise class software environment preferably of scale with thousands of tests going through a gated CI pipeline
      • 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.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. 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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