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Director - Strategic Initiative Management - Fayette Missouri
Company: EDWARD JONES Location: Fayette, Missouri
Posted On: 05/17/2024
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.Director of Strategic Initiative Management will both be responsible for the execution and successful delivery of large, cross product enterprise epics or initiatives that require coordination and alignment across multiple areas of Digital (e.g., DPM, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Production Services) and lead a team of high-level individual contributor initiative managers on their own initiative. Requires influence over the system of teams doing the work across multiple organizations, portfolios, and technology teams.What you'll do: Domain and subject matter expertise is crucial in making functional and technical design decisions. Drive stakeholders, product, and technology agile teams to ensure the requirements, designs and outcomes are measurable and appropriate. Responsible for overall technology design, budget, and implementation for the efforts, ensuring a coherent and unified approach to solution development and delivery with built in quality and measurement metrics (e.g., Burn Downs, Say/Do, etc). Partner with Senior Business and Digital Leaders, strategic vendors, and other internal supporting organizations to identify, analyze, and manage risks throughout the solution development lifecycle, ensuring that risk mitigation strategies are in place, and ensuring compliance with relevant legal, regulatory, and organizational policies. End-to-end execution leader of the effort.In the leadership component of this role, the leader will develop and implement a personnel structure that supports successful achievement of objectives in their specific area of responsibilities. Implement a robust people process to find, train, support, retain and advance a winning team.Develop a successful plan for their role and the leaders for which they are responsible.Challenge and contribute knowledge, time, and expertise to find answers.Measures of success will include successful delivery of Enterprise Epics/Initiatives, risk mitigation, cost, quality, schedule management and business value realization.What you'll need: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or Management Information Systems required or related work experience.Extensive experience (8-10 years) in managing one or more of a variety of technical fields including software engineering, technical program management, technical architecture, and complex, large-scale implementations.Three (3) of those years should include hands-on experience in the functional areas of responsibility. Five (5) years' experience should include responsibility for day-to-day support teams, two or more teams of people or projects concurrently. Experience in leading multi-locational teams comprised of leaders, associates, and SaaS or consulting partners without direct management responsibilities for those team members.Domain and subject matter expertise in the related functions and technologies. Expertise in large scale platform conversions/implementation.Expertise in large scale platform functional and non-functional testing.Metrics driven software engineering leader.Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.Solid understanding of technology and development, enabling informed oversight and decision-making in the technical domain.Expertise in Agile and/or Scaled Agile delivery and product mindset.Leadership, strategy, and communication skills required.Well-versed in establishing, monitoring, and executing plans and metrics.What will set you apart: Global focus with knowledge in technology directions, laws, cultural differences and managing global organizations a plus. - 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. |
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