Team Leader- Data Strategy

Team Overview:

We believe that data is a business foundation, a key asset that powers our digital experiences and allows us to keep pace with our analytics and AI ambitions. We strive for data that is consistently managed at an elevated level of care; that is accessible and usable to unlock business opportunities; that is built on a modern data architecture; and that is powered by talent and culture with the vitality to sustainably propel us forward. At Edward Jones, we are on journey to meaningfully change how we share data across teams, federating decisions as close to our business opportunities as we can while maintaining global standards that ensure trust, interoperability and usability. We do all of this in service of providing our customers and financial advisors solutions that are truly best-in-class.

The Team Leader - Data Strategy is responsible for articulating and evangelizing this vision across the firm, rallying data, analytics, product, technology and operations partners around ways of working that produce expanding numbers of trusted, broadly-used data products. This position will manage a small team of associates and report to the Director, Data Strategy & Enablement within Edward Jones's Digital, Data & Operations organization.

What You'll Do:

• Coaching data and analytics teams on how to build, certify and register data products in the firm's data product marketplace.
• Defining data domains and their operating and engagement models, and enrolling teams to consistently live into these new ways of working.
• Partnering with our data domain owner, data product services and data governance teams to connect enterprise quality standards on our data elements up into quality, performance and support standards for our data products. 
• Aligning our data supply chains, our architecture teams and our supervisory bodies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of data-related releases.
• Evolving our data strategy documentation, and developing change and communication management campaigns to enroll the rest of the firm in our new ambitions.

What Experience You'll Need:

• A college degree, preferably in a business, data, finance, engineering or other technology major
• At least 5 years of data- or product management-related experience, and preferably some of each
• Demonstrated effectiveness managing a team, even in a project-based setting
• Preference given to candidates with a Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) and/or a DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification

​​​​​​​What Could Set You Apart:

• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty, and the ability to chart a path through new opportunities
• Self-starter mindset
• Committed developer of people to achieve their career ambitions
• Tenacious networker, internally and externally
• Dedicated student of data management technologies and practices
• Eternal optimist and cheerleader
• The ability to create a vision and execute against it
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects at any given time