Team Leader - Technology

Edward Jones

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Team Leader plans, directs, and leads a team of associates and contractors responsible for operation, regulatory compliance, support, development, security, quality, disaster recovery and implementation of technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred or related work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience directly related to Information Systems technology with at least 1 year in a leadership role (mentoring associates, lead analyst, project leaders, etc.).
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting distributed applications using Kubernetes, and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipelines.
• Experience deploying and managing cloud-based solutions across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Required understanding of technologies related to or dependent on the team's systems.
• Knowledge of business system interactions, infrastructure dependencies, system controls, monitoring, etc.
• Understanding system development methodologies and processes within IS (change management, QA, Project Life Cycle, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Align team activities, strategies, responsibilities and objectives with the firm’s strategic direction.
• Develop and execute on-going improvements for processes related to the team (e.g. resource management and support processes).
• Ensure prudent use of the firm’s financial resources.
• Provide leadership, development, and mentoring to associates through examples and timely feedback.
• Develop successors for key positions on their team.
• Ensure the execution and quality of enhancements, support and projects.
• Understanding of the team's systems, processes and technologies.
• Manages and develops self while internalizing leadership feedback.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across teams, departments, countries, vendors and other divisions.
• Must be able to establish and maintain effective relationships with vendors while aligning to the firms' objectives.

Benefits

• medical and prescription drug
• dental
• vision
• voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness)
• short- and long-term disability
• basic life
• basic AD&D coverage
• 401k retirement plan
• tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account
• ten paid holidays
• 15 days of vacation for new associates
• sick time
• personal days
• a paid day for volunteerism
• bonuses
• profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree