Solutions Engineer

Opportunity Overview

The Relationship Enrollment Team, part of Wealth Planning & Onboarding, is seeking a Solution Engineer to help solve some of the organization's most complex technical challenges.

In this role, you'll partner across multiple engineering teams to evaluate solution approaches, establish architectural patterns, and address obstacles that impact scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery. As a hands-on technical leader, you'll build proofs of concept, validate architectural decisions, conduct technical investigations, and guide teams through complex design tradeoffs.

You'll collaborate closely with engineers, architects, product managers, and technical leaders to ensure teams have the expertise and support needed to successfully deliver high-impact solutions. Beyond solving technical challenges, you'll play a key role in mentoring others, strengthening technical decision-making, and helping develop the next generation of engineering leaders.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a trusted technical leader across multiple engineering teams.
• Solve complex engineering and technology challenges that impact the broader organization.
• Design, develop, and validate proofs of concept, prototypes, and reference implementations.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and guide teams through architectural and technical tradeoffs.
• Design experiments and testing strategies to validate performance, scalability, reliability, and feasibility.
• Establish engineering patterns, standards, and best practices that can be leveraged across teams.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability, observability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Influence architecture and engineering decisions across multiple products and services.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, helping strengthen technical capabilities throughout the organization.

EEO Statement

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.

Company Description

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ 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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Awards and Accolades

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Position Requirements

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related technical experience.
• Proven success leading complex technical initiatives with significant organizational impact.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native application design, and enterprise-scale solution development.
• Strong expertise with Java and/or JavaScript and experience working across multiple technology stacks.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient production systems.
• Strong knowledge of observability practices, automated testing strategies, and operational excellence.
• Experience with microservices architectures, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), event-driven systems, and distributed technologies.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions, preferably within Microsoft Azure.
• Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence across teams without direct management authority.

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 benefits page.