AVP, Database Engineer
About The Position
At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial. Job Overview: The AVP, Data Platform Engineer leads development of data services and platform solutions needed to host business-critical applications that differentiate LPL in the market. This is a hands-on, technical lead role in the I&O organization that will architect and develop data platforms to support LPL’s overall platform and technology strategies.
Requirements
- 7+ years of MS SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, database architecture / design / implementation experience
- 5+ years experience with data integration and data replication services
- 5+ years experience designing / automating data management solutions across AWS storage services (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier, Storage Gateway)
- 3+ years experience on AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Landing Zone and DevSecOps
- 5+ years experience building end-to-end automation for core infrastructure services
Nice To Haves
- AWS Certified Database
- Proven experience with data replication utilizing FiveTran HVR
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Ansible / Puppet / Terraform Certification
- Experience with open telemetry including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS Distro
Responsibilities
- Leads database platform modernization / transformation supporting enterprise applications
- Lead research / design / architecture / development of enterprise database services on-prem and AWS Landing Zone (ALZ) utilizing IaC/IaaS/ PaaS solutions
- Build scalable / resilient solutions and ensure proper instrumentation is in place for overall observability of platforms and services
- Build / maintain database platforms that enable self-service and frictionless / agile delivery model
- Build IaC solutions adhering to DevSecOps best practices utilizing tools such as Git, CloudFormation, Ansible and Terraform
- Code / Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud
- Participate in Kanban delivery model to deliver sprint releases through stories/epics utilizing Jira to track all development work and track overall velocity
- Accountable for site reliability engineering (SRE) activities to build highly available and scalable solutions and ensure problem observability of platforms / services
- Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture and Security
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
