VP, Platform Engineering – Database

LPL Financial•Charlotte, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees. If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today. The Database Manager will lead the MS SQL team for enterprise data platforms. As a senior leader in Infrastructure and Operations organization, you will have the opportunity to define/execute database platform strategy / vision and roadmap for cloud and hybrid-cloud. This role will define next generation data architecture/platforms and be accountable for engineering of highly scalable data solutions. This position is a people manager role for a team of Full Time, Contract, and Managed Service resources.

Requirements

10+ years of data solution architecture, design, development and platform engineering experience, SQL Server expert.
5+ years of progressive leadership experience working within large, global financial institutions.
Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions to the cloud
5+ years experience architecting modern data integration frameworks, data modeling, ETL/ELT workflows, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns.
5+ years experience and proven track record leading migration of data platforms to new data centers and/or AWS
Proven expertise in database platforms (SQL Server/Always On, ORACLE/RAC, PostgreSQL), AWS RDS, Dynamo DB
Proven expertise in cloud data services such as OLTP, ODS, data lake and analytics platforms
Proven expertise in data warehousing, big data and analytics platforms (RedShift, EMR, Dataiku, Tableau, Presto)
Proven track record developing, communicating and executing multi-year technology strategy and roadmaps
Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes
Agile mindset; Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery
Extensive experience utilizing management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage data platforms at scale
Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, security, privacy and risk safeguards required of a global financial institution

Nice To Haves

AWS LZ, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RedShift, RDS, Snowflake, ECS, EKS, RDS, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, Lamdba, Jira, Terraform, GridGain Cache, FiveTran HVR
CI/CD (GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban
Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence

Responsibilities

Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for SQL Server environment
Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack).
Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
Provide Tier 2,3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations
Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization