Sr Engineer, Software Developer

LPL Financial•Charlotte, TX

About The Position

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? 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: We are looking for an inspired innovative Senior Developer Lead for our cloud transformation journey, with background in development of high throughput mission critical business applications, leveraging AWS technologies with .Net, SQL Server and PostgreSQL. The individual will need to be well versed in financial, trading and advisory technologies. As a trusted engineer lead, you will be working cross-functional teams to ensure development, deliver quality and meet deadlines. This is a Techno functional hands-on, technical lead role in the trading organization that will design, architect and develop cloud-native and on-prem services to support LPL’s overall cloud strategy and transformation.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
6+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack application development utilizing C# .NET, Angular/JavaScript, REST APIs, and relational databases, with a strong emphasis on a test-driven development (TDD) approach to ensure high-quality software delivery.
6+ years of experience with enterprise software development processes, including the ability to document software design through sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and other visual aids, while effectively presenting findings in architecture board reviews.
6+ years of experience in developing microservices and implementing API-first design principles, along with a solid understanding of cloud patterns to enhance scalability and performance.
6+ Years SQL server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, etc.
6+ years of hands on experience with Kafka and event driven architectures/patterns.
6+ years of experience with AWS technologies, showcasing hands-on development expertise with AWS Lambda and Step Functions to build robust cloud-based solutions (CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Fargate/EKS, DynamoDB).

Nice To Haves

Experience working in trading domain with knowledge of backend trading and order execution workflows.
Experience with on-prem to cloud migration/transformation.
Experience working with global delivery teams.

Responsibilities

Lead a tech team to design, develop, test and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction utilizing AWS cloud native technologies (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).
Deep understanding and seasoned on cloud migration strategies with AWS and e2e SDLC.
Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale and modernize existing trading platforms.
Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, DevOps and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.
Code and implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud.
Formulating workable solutions to complex challenges, logically deliberating on courses of action by examining and challenging assumptions, discerning hidden value, objectively evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions.
Measure success by say/do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms.
Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.
Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance trading platforms/applications.
Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.