VP, Development Manager - Trading

LPL Financial•Charlotte, TX

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.