Opportunity Overview Team Overview: The Technology Architecture Enablement & Governance team is seeking a Product Owner to drive the delivery of initiatives that strengthen enterprise architecture and governance capabilities across the organization. This role focuses on shaping and managing the roadmap, prioritizing work, and partnering with technical and business teams to ensure successful implementation of architecture standards, governance processes, and compliance requirements.
You will play a key role in enabling consistency, scalability, and risk management by coordinating efforts that bring architectural principles and governance policies and tools to life through actionable solutions.
What You'll Do: Product Ownership - Own the roadmap and backlog for Architecture Enablement and Governance initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives.
- Define priorities based on business value, risk mitigation, and strategic impact.
Delivery Enablement - Partner with architects and engineering, and governance teams to translate architectural and governance requirements into actionable deliverables.
- Ensure initiatives are well-defined, scoped, and sequenced for successful execution.
Requirements Translation - Convert high-level governance and architecture objectives into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications for delivery teams.
- Maintain clarity and traceability between business needs and technical implementation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with product teams, engineering, security, compliance, and operations to coordinate delivery of architecture and governance solutions.
- Serve as liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure alignment and transparency.
Stakeholder Engagement - Communicate roadmap, priorities, and progress to leadership and stakeholders across multiple business units.
- Facilitate discussions to resolve conflicts and ensure consensus on priorities.
Continuous Improvement - Monitor delivery outcomes and identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce complexity, and accelerate adoption of governance practices.
- Support feedback loops to refine backlog and roadmap based on evolving business and technology needs.
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Position Requirements What Experience You'll Need: - 3-5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role in technology-focused initiatives.
- Exposure to governance-driven projects (security, compliance, architecture standardization).
- Understanding of enterprise architecture principles.
- Familiarity with technology governance and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, COBIT) and requirements
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (architecture, security, compliance).
- Ability to manage dependencies across multiple initiatives and teams.
- Strong experience in roadmap development, backlog management, and prioritization based on business value and risk.
- Ability to translate high-level objectives into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for translating technical concepts into business language.
- Skilled in facilitating discussions and driving results among diverse stakeholders.
- Skilled in Agile methodologies
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 a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week effective June 1, 2026. Before June 1, 2026, 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 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 benefits page.
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