Salesforce Technical Consultant

Company: EDWARD JONES
Location: Jefferson City
Posted on: November 18, 2023

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.
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 middle of digital transformation by 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.

In 2022, Edward Jones invested $1 billion in technology infrastructure, digital initiatives, and virtual business enablement tools. We're currently in the test and learn phase and are looking for talented, motivated professionals, that want to be part of this transformational journey. Cloud-based architecture and modern technical capabilities will enable us to grow our impact while providing the best client experience possible


What you'll do:

Salesforce Branch Desktop - Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is designed to help accelerate our digital transformation efforts by acting as an efficient single-destination for branch teams, becoming the first thing they log into every day and the central hub of operations for their business. Accountability for the Salesforce Branch Desktop resides with the CRM Team. This team is a cross-functional group of individuals, including associates and contractors.

As a Salesforce Technical Consultant, you will be a part of a diverse and collaborative team whose end goal is to support our Client Relationship Management Teams. In this role you will interact with vendors and associates in a matrix organization, enhance applications, develop software and tools, and provide support and guidance to our teams.

Here are a few of the key responsibilities you will be a part of:
Strategically plan and optimize assigned Salesforce portfolio of products and services
Architect, design, implement and deploy integrated Salesforce solutions to solve complex problems
Improve efficiency and effectiveness of operations through process optimization and technology implementation
Provide technical leadership related to software development tools, methodologies, best practices, and standards
Develop and enforce policies, standard practices, and operating procedures to ensure compliance with regulations and organizational standards
Provide direction as to the effective use of technology
Prepare detailed software specifications and provide program or system level estimates
Design, code, test, debug, maintain and conduct code walkthroughs for programs


What Experience You Need:
Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent work experience
5 + years of experience in technology including experience with the following: Configuring objects/fields and building automations using flows, flow proficiency required
Large Salesforce Impl--mentation (10K + User Base)
Salesforce.com development tools and techniquesApex language, triggers, controllers, JavaScript
Force.com custom development, SOAP and REST APIs
Apex Code, Salesforce Triggers, Controllers & Batch Process, JSON, SOQL, SOSL
Lightning components using LWC
Building Components using OmniStudio
Using Salesforce's standard development tooling, including Salesforce CLI, Data Loader, Salesforce Extension Pack






What could set you apart: OmniStudio Developer certification
OmniStudio Consultant certification
Experience with Copado
Exposure to Salesforce Shield & Event Monitoring
Salesforce Admin, Salesforce Advanced Admin, Salesforce App Builder & Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certifications

"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."
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. 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: $92984 - $158325
Category: Headquarters

Keywords: EDWARD JONES, Jefferson City , Salesforce Technical Consultant, IT / Software / Systems , Jefferson City, Missouri