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.

Team Overview:

Edward Jones is looking to hire an adaptable technical Production Support Specialist II to provide advanced hardware and software assistance to branch and home-office associates of Edward Jones. Support encompasses users in the United States and Canada to ensure continued functionality in a high volume, fast tempo technical support center. Ideal candidate is a balance of technical knowledge with excellent customer service and can adapt to an ever-changing environment.

What You Will Do:

As part of this new role, you will be supporting the Quotes systems/applications that are key to Edward Jones daily business operations as they allow our advisors and clients to view and quote their portfolio of investments including stocks, bonds, mutual funds as well as review current market news.

• Provide IT support for applications related to Quotes Processes/Systems.


• Triage Production issues reported from end users with Product and Technical team


• Evaluate and prioritize customer support requests via workflow based on severity/time sensitivity of the situation.


• Think independently applying technical understanding with minimal direction to resolve issues utilizing troubleshooting tools, following department processes, and other resources as appropriate. 


• Troubleshoot inquiries in a timely manner guiding technical and non-technical users through the problem-solving process.


• Escalate incidents to other technology departments when appropriate and dispatch vendors, as necessary.


• Identify ticket trends and potential wide-spread issues, collaborating and partnering with leaders to resolve and take proactive action to reduce future occurrences.


• Perform Production deployments and release management


• Learn, Document and Guide technical and non-technical resources on the Quotes processes and Data

What Experience You Will Need:

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  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems/Technology, or related field

  
  


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  A minimum of five (5) years of technical support environment

  
  


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  Strong Technical support, analysis, and trouble-shooting skills

  
  


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  Dedicated home office space and hard-wired internet connection required

  
  


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  Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues in business terms

  
  


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  Experience using ticketing system to manage and track incidents is required

  
  


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  Ability to be part of an on-call production support rotation which will include evening, weekend, or holiday support as needed. **On-call support is based on pager notifications and expected to be minimal

  
  


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  Full-stack development skills, such as Java, SQL, REST, JSON, WebLogic, JavaScript, JQuery, GIT, Shell/Bash scripting and more

  
  

What Could Set You Apart:

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  Certification(s) in relevant technical products/technologies is preferred

  
  


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  Knowledge or experience with any of the following is a plus:

  
  
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    Kafka, MDB, or other Message Driven architectures

    
    
  
  
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    EJB

    
    
  
  
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    Splunk

    
    
  
  
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    Dynatrace

    
    
  
  
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    SQL

    
    
  
  
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    JUnit

    
    
  
  
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    Kubernetes

    
    
  
  
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    React​​