Senior Business Architect Jobs

About-Us

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.

Job-Overview

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 seeking a Senior Business Architect to help lead the digital transformation efforts.  This individual will be a member of the Business Architecture team that is responsible for leading efforts to align business capabilities and product value delivery to our enterprise strategies, technology roadmap, and digital transformation.  The team's purpose, as a part of the Enterprise Architecture team, is to accelerate delivery of client-centric solutions, drive consistent technology use, support transformation strategy, and provide adaptable architecture through continuous technology improvement.

What You'll do :

Our Senior Business Architects unite business strategy and technology transformation to drive business outcomes.  These architects:

• Serve as a SME across multiple domains to be able to synthesize architecture plans with an informed view of new and emerging technology solutions to enable digital transformation across the enterprise.
• Mentor and build the technical skills of others, and foster a strong and collaborative team environment
• Develop and execute project / deployment plans that meet scope, time, cost and quality requirements
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in alignment with Digital Technology and firm objectives.
• Investigate emerging technologies and evaluate their potential impact to the firm by conducting research, and identify solutions, and make recommendations supported by a properly developed business case that includes technical feasibility, costs, benefits, etc.
• Posted Internally as a Senior Technical Architect
• Develop processes and documentation according to the needs of the firm.
• Quickly assess, mitigate risk, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues using industry standard tools to include packet analyzers
• Develop an understanding of current capabilities, technology strategy, and the alignment to business goals while considering operational constraints of the IT organization.
• Collaborate and influence others, to include peers, leaders, and vendors

Skills-Requirements

What You'll Need:

• 15+ years of Technology and Financial Services experience.
• 5+ years of experience as an Architect
• Bachelor's degree or related work experience

What Could Set You Apart:

• TOGAF Certification
• Strong communication skills to be able to articulate complex content to both technical and on technical audiences all the way up to Senior Leadership.

Awards-Accolades

• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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 has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine, ranking No. 45.

EEO

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. Visit our career site 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: