Platform Administrator

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Odessa
Posted on: November 24, 2022

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.At Edward Jones the Platform Administrator will help support our area to ensure the reporting systems support our growing business content and needs. As part of the Data Management area, the Platform Administrator will be tasked with ensuring users access and capabilities to reporting applications on prem and in the cloud. A platform administrator will assist in troubleshooting issues, as well as manage the performance of the systems to provide users highly performant reporting systems. This job will bring you into contact with a diverse array of stakeholders ranging from Information Technology to our analytics stakeholders across the firm.

Responsibility Summary:
--- Provides 1st level support on our team, and assists in problem resolution for our user community
--- Interact directly with requestors from multiple divisions of the firm to understand their documented reporting access needs
--- Leverage workflow tools to maintain accurate status of assigned tasks (JIRA, etc.)
--- Ensure scheduled reporting jobs are scheduled to run on a frequency consistent with stakeholder requirements
--- Ensure the necessary data validation steps are included to ensure completeness and accuracy of data
--- Publishes content to our reporting environments, provides initial set up of reporting projects and user setup
--- Helps with Windows and Linux patch testing for the systems we support
--- Provides support in platform monitoring and tuning efforts
--- Assists with product configuration to expose additional reporting needs
--- Provides support for license management and administration
--- Configures systems to expose additional capabilities in the analytic reporting tools
--- Assist with packaging and installing Windows and Linux softwarePosition Requirements :
--- 3+ years of experience in using or supporting the following platforms or technologies
Windows/Linux platform
--- Powershell and Ansible coding experience required
--- BI experience a plus
--- Advanced ANSI SQL coding experience and performance tuning
---Experience installing and deploying software with code
---Familiarity with Cloud technologies
---Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or another applicable field is preferred

Desired Skills:
--- Experience with Python, Perl, Bash
--- Working knowledge with Snowflake cloud-based data warehousing platform.
--- Experience working with ETL tools and understanding of their needs
--- Experience using agile development methodology and working within a scrum team.
--- Familiarity with GitHub and SharePoint
--- Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills

• 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work - data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
  • Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work - and Fortune - magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work -, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
    Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work - and Fortune - magazine, ranking No. 45.2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work -, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

    For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For - ranking by Great Places to Work - and Fortune - magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ+ Equality, Great Place to Work - in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

    Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+Equality.Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.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. 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: $76798 - $130764
    Category: Headquarters

Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Independence , Platform Administrator, Other , Odessa, Missouri