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. This position will assist with strategic technology direction and deliver production-ready automation solutions to enhance client and associate experience within the Operations Division of Edward Jones. The role is responsible for designing, creating, testing, implementing, and maintaining high quality automation solutions using Robotic Process Automation, workflow and OCR for functional areas within Operations and the Firm. This position is responsible providing technical leadership on complex efforts as well as guiding and training less experienced developers. As a member of the Operations Technology team this position will focus on the discovery and delivery of automated business solutions within the Operations division. Responsibilities include: * Design and develop automation solutions following best practice design standards in Automation Anywhere, Pega and data analysis tools * Complete high complexity efforts and provide technical leadership on systems and design * Design and architect inline system controls that can be used to mitigate risk within these automated solutions * Maintain current automation processes and enhance existing solutions * Assist with creating technical requirements, i.e., PDD and SDD documents, estimating work, identifying dependencies, and effectively communicating status and progress with business owners * Develop relationships with business owners in order to guide areas through technical solutions, help identify solutions, and assist in removing barriers to effective automation * Participate in walkthroughs and design reviews to assure quality of solutions developed * Identify opportunities to promote continuous improvement and innovation in the automation value steam * Mentor other team members and assist them with technical guidance * Practice and promote agile development to deliver benefit on an iterative basis. Position Requirements: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred or related work experience. * 5+ years of software development/process automation experience * Professional licenses required within 120 days of hire: SIE & Series 99; Series 7 within 12 months * Automation Anywhere RPA Certification required within 12 months of hire. * Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical issues in business terms and facilitate the resolution of problems. * Experience with automation software solutions such as Automation Anywhere * Experience with workflow platforms such as Pega, * Experience with OCR technologies and the ABBYY engine * Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Miscosoft BI, WebFOCUS and ETL tools such as Pentaho * Experience in agile development practices that includes User Stories, Sprints, Story Points and Velocity * Responsible for working on JIRA stories and tasks to completion with each sprint, as part of an Agile delivery team that uses Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) * Ensure development of robust, scalable technical solutions with reusable components and common elements * Ability to problem solve and quickly learn new technologies in a changing environment * Strong ability to work independently and contribute as a key member of the team * 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For By Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine Edward Jones was named No. 20 on the list. * From FORTUNE 2021 FORTUNE Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license. FORTUNE and FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For are registered trademarks of Fortune Media IP Limited and are used under license. FORTUNE and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of, Edward Jones Investments. * 2021 Corporate Equality Index Edward Jones joins the ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the Foundations 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality. * From The Human Rights Campaign. All Rights Reserved * 2021 Training Top 100 list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list. * J.D. Power, 2021 Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study. * Edward Jones received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies of employee advisors satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more information. 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](https://careers.edwardjones.com/compensation-and-values/) 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: