Job Description

Recruiter
Anne Schwabe
Opportunity Overview
Overview:
Edward Jones is seeking a Security Architect to support our digital transformation by embedding security into solution architecture. This role will help drive business agility, scalability, and resilience across on-premises and cloud environments.
What You'll Do:
The Security Architect will be responsible for embedding with solution architecture teams supporting the business portfolio to represent Information Systems security policies, standards, and requirements.

• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure security requirements are understood and implemented early in the design process.
• Advocate for a security-by-design approach in cloud and digital transformation initiatives.
• Review and recommend architecture to ensure security controls are embedded into designs and patterns, as well as supporting scalability, reliability, and compliance.
• Contribute to security patterns, guidelines, and reusable artifacts to support secure-by-design practices across teams.
• Provide guidance on technology selection and operational processes for running systems in a cloud environment.
• Participate in proof-of-concept efforts for new SaaS and IaaS applications to represent security requirements.

Position Type
Home Office
Position Schedule
Full-Time
Company Description
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
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External Flexible Work Option(s)
Hybrid
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Position Requirements
What Experience You'll Need:

• Minimum 8 years' experience in cybersecurity as a practitioner.
• Experience designing secure architectures for cloud and on-premises solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to build trust and credibility across technical and business teams.
• Must be able to present effectively to multiple audiences including firm-wide business units, senior leaders, associates, and external vendors.
• Ability to translate security requirements into actionable guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience developing and applying cloud security policies and procedures.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, CIS, ISO 27001).

What Could Set You Apart:

• Hands-on experience and subject matter expertise with Microsoft Azure.
• Working knowledge across infrastructure and application domains, including networking, storage, operating systems, identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM), single sign-on (SSO), encryption standards, and vendor engagement.
• Technology background in the financial sector.
• Experience promoting secure-by-design principles in agile or DevOps environments.
• Understanding of various regulatory requirements and laws such as Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and New York Codes Rules and Regulations (NYCRR).
• Microsoft Architect certifications, ISC2 certifications, SANS certifications.

Current INTERNAL home-based associates: While this role is posted as hybrid, if selected and accepted, you may retain your home-based status. Edward Jones intends in good faith to continue offering the role as home-based, though future business or regulatory needs may require on-site work.
**Candidates that live within in 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 preference for Tuesday through Thursday.**
Salary Information
Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our .

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