Sr Programmer Analyst, IS

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we’ve located our 12,000+ branch offices in the neighborhoods where our nearly 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team’s ability to build deep relationships with them. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. The IS Fixed Income Trading team is responsible for numerous custom-built and vendor-supported applications, used daily by our home office associates and 12,000 branch teams in the US and Canada to trade, support, and service fixed income trading functions. We’re seeking an exceptionally talented person to innovate and collaborate with our team to generate creative ideas that will continue taking these applications to the next level.

What You’ll Do…

• Design – Perform lead analyst role to design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs
• Develop – Modify and develop complex information systems involving most phases of systems analysis and programming
• Adapt – Shift work between different environments and multitask
• Implement – Analyze, design, code and document programs and enhancements
• Test – Conduct code walkthroughs to ensure programs meet the specified quality standards
• Plan – Assist with defining and meeting business requirements, preparing detailed software specifications, and providing program or system level estimates
• Monitor – Provide system support, including on-call pager rotation

Mentor – Provide guidance, training and mentorship on the business impact of the systems supported, technical systems design, development of best practices, and IS processes and tools What You’ll Need…

Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related technical field, or equivalent experience in information systems

• 5+ years in software development and support for mainframe environments
• Experience with mainframe development, such as COBOL, CICS, JCL, and TSO is required
• Experience with database management systems, such as DB2, Oracle, or IDMS is required
• Experience with open system development, such as Linux, BASH/SHELL scripting, Java/J2EE, and PuTTY is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues in business terms
• Excellent relationship management, organizational, communication, time management and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work in both a team environment and as an individual contributor