LPL Financial-posted 1 day ago
Full-time • Executive
Charlotte, TX
5,001-10,000 employees

Job Overview: Working independently, the VP of Development Manager oversees software engineering talent across multiple development teams. The individual will be well-versed in financial, trading, and advisory technologies. As a trusted technology partner, you will work cross-functionally with teams to ensure that the development teams deliver quality that is well-defined and understood by the teams. The VP of Software Engineering leads the development of cloud services and platform solutions needed to host business-critical applications that differentiate LPL in the market. This is a techno-functional, in some cases hands-on, technical lead role in the trading organization, where you will design, architect, and develop cloud-native and on-premises services to support LPL’s overall cloud strategy and migration to AWS.

  • Lead research/design/architecture/development of enterprise services on ALZ, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS,RDS, Lambda, API Gateway.
  • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and develop strategies to scale, make platforms resilient, and modernize them.
  • 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
  • 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 best practices, adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, Cloud practices, SDLC, and release management processes.
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices or make process changes to drive more value for Advisors
  • A servant leader who applies leadership principles and fosters a culture of inclusivity and diversity
  • Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance Trading Platform applications.
  • Ensure that service level agreements and contingency activities related to system/application availability are covered.
  • 5+ years of experience in technology leadership roles that span across Technology development, Engineering best practices, product development, and delivery leadership roles, preferably within a financial service or related FinTech firm.
  • 3+ years of designing/deploying infrastructure utilizing standard AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, API Gateway)
  • 5+ years of designing and delivering Pub Sub like EMS & MQ, Streaming like Kafka, and programming languages like C#, Java, or Python.
  • 7+ years of experience in event-driven, high-availability, and low-latency platform building with the trading platforms.
  • 7+ years of related experience in capital markets with a strong understanding of the financial, trading, and advisory platforms.
  • Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to evaluate business opportunities and evaluate results against established objectives.
  • 401K matching
  • health benefits
  • employee stock options
  • paid time off
  • volunteer time off
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