Edward Jones Hiring for Team Leader – Security Platform Engineering at Jefferson City, MO $ $ Full Time

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:
You may be surprised to know that Edward Jones employs thousands of technical resources – all focused on creating world-class experiences for our clients and branch offices. If you’ve considered Edward Jones in the past, it’s time to take another look. We are in the midst of embracing a modern, cloud-based architecture and are looking for exceptional individuals that want to be a part of that future.

We’ve invested millions of dollars into new technology platforms to help improve what matters most in our industry, client experience. We’re currently implementing a modern, cloud-based architecture and are looking for talented, and motived professionals that want to be part of providing the best client experience and financial resources possible.

What You’ll Do :
As the Team Leader of Platform Engineering, you are a key member of the Information Security Leadership Team. You will work closely with other leaders to make key decisions in protecting the firm from advanced cyber-attacks. As a business-driven organization, this leadership role is responsible for helping to transform the organization’s structure, talent, technology, and processes to effectively manage risk, while remaining current with the evolving threat landscape. Having the ability to develop strong relationships with business leaders across the enterprise is a critical component to the success of the individual chosen to lead this function. This role leverages a defense in depth framework as the guiding principle and actively contributes to leveraging best practices to improve the overall cyber maturity and posture across the enterprise.

Here are a few of the key responsibilities you will be a part of :

• Responsible for the strategic, architectural, and operational aspects of the team in support of the Cyber Threat Intel, Incident Response, Threat Detection & Hunt and Vulnerability Management functions.
• Develop and foster cross-functional relationships with other leaders across the business and technology.
• Determine security product and architecture currency – Remain relevant to evolving threat landscape and responds swiftly to mitigate exposure to new threats and vulnerabilities.
• Display hands on approach, leading engineers to deliver capabilities in security architecture, engineering and operations.
• Develop key objectives, scope, success criteria, milestones, and metrics, and effectively communicates with project teams and key stakeholders.
• Lead project meetings, communicates project status, assesses project risk/issues, develops mitigation plans and resolutions, and adheres to compliance standards.
• Responsible for managing vendor relationships, including evaluation of new vendors and managing existing financial commitment and services.

What Experience You’ll Need :

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
• 7+ years Engineering experience, with 5+ years in Cybersecurity Discipline including :
  • 3+ years in a Leadership role
  • Knowledge involving the development of multi-tier and cross-platform architecture plans, as well as security frameworks and standards such as NIST, COSO, COBIT, Agile, and ITIL
  • Familiarity with basic budgeting and vendor management principles
  • Advanced knowledge and understanding of security issues, risks, concepts, and terminology
  • Familiar with change & service management best practices as well as CMDB solutions

What Could Set You Apart :

• Experience with Implementing or Leading a team that has done work with a SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation Response)
• Familiarity with Agile

. Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with a preference for Tuesday through Thursday.*

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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 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:

Salary: $113810 – $193785
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