RiverSource Technology Leadership Development Program Associate
About The Position
Are you looking for a company that values diversity, collaboration, and growth? The Ameriprise Financial Leadership Development Program (LDP) offers meaningful work experience for emerging talent in a FORTUNE 500® company within the Financial Services industry. The Technology LDP is an 18-month experiential commitment crafted to cultivate your business knowledge, gain on-the-job training, network in an encouraging, inclusive, team-based environment, have exposure to senior leaders and contribute to the success of the company through 3-4 rotations. With access to our Business Resource Networks – which includes the Black Employee Network, Young Professionals Network, PRIDE Network – you will increase your own sense of belonging and engage in relevant networking and development opportunities. Embark on this journey as a Leadership Development Program Associate and lay the foundation for your future. The 18-month Technology LDP program offers a structured technical concentration or a pathway to upskill in a specific technology team. This position is for our Minneapolis-based RiverSource Technology LDP Pathway. As a Technology LDP, you’ll support three key areas of the RiverSource Technology team for a 6-month rotation each. The Systems Engineering team supports general infrastructure including network infrastructure changes using infrastructure as code and DevOps tools. As part of the team, you will support existing and future technologies in cloud environments, app migrations, and troubleshoot system failures and recommend fixes or improvements. The RiverSource Data Lake team supports curation and ingestion of data to support various business modeling and general reporting. As part of this team you will build, develop data files/feeds for curation and loading into the data lake. The Operations Management team uses various tools to monitor RiverSource technology systems for availability, user issues, and nightly batching. As part of this team, you use monitoring tools to evaluate, monitor and remediate system performance issues. After exploring the breadth of the business unit through each rotation, LDPs may have the opportunity to post to a permanent position within Ameriprise Financial.
Requirements
- Current Senior at a 4-year university pursing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Science, Information Technology Infrastructure, or related field.
- Graduation date of December 2025 or May/June 2026
- Commitment to complete the full 18-month Leadership Development Program
Nice To Haves
- High degree of self-motivation with strong integrity and ethics
- Proven organization skills and ability to manage time effectively
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Ability to work and communicate collaboratively with all levels of the organization including team members, managers, and senior leaders
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Prior classroom, project, or work experience with software development/programming/coding
Responsibilities
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements
- Develop, document, test, and modify new and existing code
- Develop working knowledge of Ameriprise systems, processes, data, and vendor tools
- Learn and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to the development life cycle
- Write and maintain development/programming/systems documentation, as well as operations and user guides, as required.
- Make recommendations for improvements.
- Continuously improve analysis skills and best practices from prior projects, training and peer learning.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with technology teams, business partners and LDP peers
- Participation in Technology LDP Committees
Benefits
- We also have a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that supports all aspects of your health and well-being, including but not limited to vacation time, sick time, 401(k), and health, dental and life insurances.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
