VP, Development Manager - Trading

LPL Financial•Charlotte, TX

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.