Technology Leadership Development Program Associate

Are you looking for a company that values diversity, collaboration, and growth? The Ameriprise Financial Leadership Development Program (LDP) offers meaningful work experience for emerging talent in a FORTUNE 500® company within the Financial Services industry. The Technology LDP is an 18-month experiential commitment crafted to cultivate your business knowledge, gain on-the-job training, network in an encouraging, inclusive, team-based environment, have exposure to senior leaders and contribute to the success of the company through 3-4 rotations. With access to our Business Resource Networks – which includes the Black Employee Network, Young Professionals Network, PRIDE Network – you will increase your own sense of belonging and engage in relevant networking and development opportunities. Embark on this journey as a Leadership Development Program Associate and lay the foundation for your future.
The Technology LDP programs offer either a technical concentration or a pathway into a technology organization:

• Global Technology Workplace Solutions Pathway
• Advisor Services & Technology Pathway
• Application Development Concentration
• Engineering Concentration
• Data Concentration
• Information Security Services Pathway
• GCO, Supervision, Risk Pathway

After exploring the breadth of the business unit(s) through each rotation, LDPs may have the opportunity to post to a permanent position within Ameriprise Financial.

Responsibilities

The Technology LDP contributes to the success of the firm by delivering technology solutions to support the evolving needs of our clients, advisors, and employees. Our Technology organization is committed to strengthening and securing our systems, delivering unparalleled customer experiences, uncovering efficiencies, and growing and succeeding as a team.

As part of the Technology Leadership Development Program, you will cultivate leadership skills by co-collaborating and leading different Committees (Communications, Professional Development, Volunteer Committee and more).

Responsibilities vary depending on rotation and assigned projects(s) and may include:

• Align with business to define requirements
• Develop, document, test, and modify new and existing code
• Develop, document, test, modify, and maintain new and existing software applications
• Develop working knowledge of Ameriprise systems, processes, data, and vendor tools
• Learn and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to the development life cycle
• Participation in Technology LDP Committees

Examples of past LDP projects include:

• Identifying, developing, testing and implementing automation solutions
• Data Lake and Data Analysis
• Working with cloud native tools to support migration to cloud environment
• Identifying cost-saving solutions in cloud hosting platform
• Implementation and testing of features in file storage
• Database resiliency to quickly generate a new primary database cluster during outage

Required Qualifications

• Current Senior at a 4-year university pursing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.

• Graduation date of December 2024 or May/June 2025
• Commitment to complete the full 18-month Leadership Development Program

Preferred Qualifications

• High degree of self-motivation with strong integrity and ethics
• Proven organization skills and ability to manage time effectively
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Ability to work and communicate collaboratively with all levels of the organization including team members, managers, and senior leaders
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
• Prior classroom, project, or work experience with software development/programming/coding

The company does not offer sponsorship for this opportunity.

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institution