Senior Trader- Automated Trading
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 09-Oct-2026, and may close early due to applicant volume.
About the role
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. View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
Responsibilities
The Senior Trader (Automated Trading) is responsible for advancing automation, AI, and data-driven capabilities across Trading. This role combines superior technology and data expertise with capital markets proficiency to enhance order routing, trade execution, liquidity access, position management, risk management, and the firm's ability to scale trading volumes efficiently. Through automation and technology innovation, this role improves trading outcomes, operational resilience, and the client and associate experience in a profound way. Operating with significant autonomy, this individual serves as a senior subject matter expert for complex trading systems, workflows, data, and operational challenges. In partnership with Trading leadership and cross-functional teams, the Senior Trader evaluates, prioritizes, and implements automation, AI, analytics, and emerging technologies that improve execution quality, trading performance, scalability, and business outcomes while maintaining strong governance and controls. As a champion of innovation, this individual drives automation, workflow optimization, and technology adoption to support sustainable growth, increased trading volumes, and operational excellence.
- Help shape and advance the automation, AI, data, and technology roadmap across Trading to improve execution quality, routing effectiveness, scalability, trading capacity, and streamline supervision capabilities.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement technologies that enhance order routing, trade execution, position management, straight-through processing, and operational efficiency for traders and leaders.
- Serve as a senior technical resource for complex trading systems, workflow, data, integration, and operational issues.
- Design and oversee automation, AI, and intelligent workflow solutions that improve execution outcomes, productivity, scalability, and risk management.
- Partner across Trading, Technology, Data, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Product teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business objectives, market structure, and client needs.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and develop implementation roadmaps that support higher trading volumes, operational resilience, and long-term business value.
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex routing, execution, system, data, and operational issues impacting trading outcomes.
- Establish governance, compliance, cybersecurity, and risk management practices that support resilient and auditable trading operations.
- Track execution quality, routing effectiveness, automation adoption, productivity, operational, and risk metrics to measure business impact and drive continuous improvement.
- Develop standards, documentation, and best practices that promote operational excellence, data quality