Team Leader - Technology

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 14-Sep-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.)

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.

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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