VP, Development Manager - Trading

LPL Financial • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

The Vice President of Development Manager oversees software engineering talent across multiple development teams, working independently and cross-functionally to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions. This role requires expertise in financial, trading, and advisory technologies and plays a critical part in designing and developing cloud-native and on-premises services that support LPL’s cloud strategy and migration to AWS.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in technology leadership roles involving software development, engineering best practices, product development, and delivery.
• At least 3 years of experience designing and deploying infrastructure using AWS services, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, and API Gateway.
• 5+ years of experience with messaging and streaming technologies (EMS, MQ, Kafka) and programming languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
• 7+ years of experience building event-driven, high-availability, low-latency platforms for trading systems.
• 7+ years of experience in capital markets with a working knowledge of financial, trading, and advisory platforms.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud migration strategies and modernization initiatives.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead research, design, architecture, and development of enterprise services on AWS, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway.
• Build collaborative relationships with architecture, data, product, and business teams to scale platforms, improve resiliency, and modernize systems.
• Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery for teams building end-to-end applications in the cloud.
• Develop solutions for complex challenges through logical analysis and objective evaluation of evidence and assumptions.
• Measure success through delivery velocity, defect remediation, and value creation for trading platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure adherence to modernization practices, cloud standards, SDLC, and release management processes.
• Influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices and drive process improvements.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance trading platform applications.
• Ensure compliance with service level agreements and contingency plans for system and application availability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees