Senior Technical Business Systems Analyst - Data Platforms at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

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.

US Remote Eligible 

• Work in partnership with the product owner to understand the needs of Technology, Product Management, and other divisional stakeholders; serving as the product subject matter expert (SME) resource for the development team to help make informed decisions on how best to maintain, enhance or integrate firm systems and data.


• Create and refine user stories with little to no coaching from peers and/or the Product Owner based on features that are sometimes not well-defined.


• Understand the technical strategy and system integrations to identify, communicate, and track divisional dependencies for features and user stories in partnership with the Product Owner and development team.


• Write requirements for platform engineers and solution architects in a manner that reflects a working understanding of the data and products that will make up the solution.


• Supports the delivery of incremental and continuous value to the end users and ensures the final implementation of features and capabilities delivers the expected user value.


• Assist the Product Owners and stakeholders to define minimum viable products (MVPs) and establish iterative plans for delivering value to target audiences using epics and features.


• Participate in and understand how to facilitate Agile and Product Management team events such as backlog refinements, retrospectives, solution demos, and system demos.


• Continues to develop understanding of firm priorities, processes, and guidelines as we continue to move through transitional change across the organization.

• Bachelor's degree (in related fields) and 4+ years of experience designing and implementing functional systems and data or an equivalent combination of education and experience.


• Previous experience with Agile and/or Product Management concepts such as user story writing, Agile events, and backlog refinement


• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with data engineers, platform architects, and solution architects in a team environment.


• Ability to support multiple moderate to highly complex efforts, and work with leadership to prioritize assigned tasks/projects.


• Ability to effectively communicate with cross divisional leaders using verbal, written and presentations skills.


• Previous experience with (Agile product management) tools such as (Jira and Aha!) is a plus.


• Previous experience with Cloud platforms, data extraction/transformation tools, and BI tools (Snowflake, Matillion, Microsoft Azure, Tableau, Power BI) is a plus