What are the responsibilities and job description for the Team Ldr, TECH - Client Document Experience position at Edward Jones?
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Edward Jones is looking for a team leader to help support innovation in the Client Document Experience product space. This person will have the dual responsibilities of product delivery management over multiple durable product delivery teams focused on client document applications and people leadership for the software development engineers within those teams.
In the product delivery management portion of the role, this leader will be responsible for:
- Continual strategy setting and evaluation of delivery team structure in alignment with firm need
- Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships and relationships with Products, QE, UX, and Enterprise Architecture
- Removing obstacles and coordinating resources to continually increase team throughput, predictability, and quality
- Reducing cycle times and improving usability scores by driving improvement of all things related to software delivery for teams in their remit
- Working across technology shared services teams to remove impediments and obstacles for improvement of product delivery and cycle time
- Contribution and maintenance of a product technology roadmap and backlog and the application of architectural standards in the team’s deliverables
- Develop and execute on-going improvements for processes related to the team
- Deep understanding of the product team’s systems, processes, priorities, and technologies while representing these aspects to all levels of Technology leadership
- Guide teams to do their work in a way that minimizes key-person dependencies and knowledge silos
- Representation to ensure firm and division processes are followed and risk is reduced by the product team (e.g. compliance change management, information security, etc.)
- Ability to hold teams accountable for setting and achieving delivery commitments.
In the people leadership portion of this role, this leader will be responsible for:
- Coaching and mentoring of each team member through observation and timely feedback
- Contractor oversight as needed to ensure efficient use of firm resources
- Identification of key team positions and develop ready-now successors
- Develop and execute on-going improvements for processes related to the team (e.g. resource management and support processes).
- Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across teams, departments, vendors, and other divisions
- Must be able to establish and maintain effective relationships with vendors while aligning to the firm's objectives
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or related work experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience directly related to Information Systems Technology with at least 1 year in a leadership role preferred. (mentoring associates, lead analyst, project leaders, etc.).
- Exposure to agile and product management practices.
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