VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation Leader

LPL Financial•San Diego, CA

About The Position

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial. Job Overview: The VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation will lead an engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation. As a senior leader in I&O organization, you will develop and execute overall platform engineering strategy that enables cloud native designs and accelerates cloud adoption to meet overall business objectives.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering leadership focused on scalable cloud infrastructure and platform development on AWS.
Leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institutions.
Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting / developing / transforming cloud platforms and services. (migrations & native implementations)
Proven experience with AWS Landing Zone and Account Vending Machine framework to build robust catalog of services that accelerate overall time to market
Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
Proven experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/DevOps/SRE principles to deliver new platforms and services
Proven experience with cloud financial management that brings overall clarity and accountability of operating IT workloads in the cloud (FinOps)
Bachelor’s/Advance degree and/or related field experience required
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
In depth understanding on AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Landing Zone and DevSecOps
Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems
Ability to create and articulate inspiring vision for the engineering organization
Extensive experience deploying system management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage compute infrastructure at scale
Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams
Experience designing / automating VPC solutions across AWS networking services (Direct Connect, VPM Gateway, Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway)
Experience designing / automating data management solutions across AWS storage services (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier, Storage Gateway
Experience designing / automating enterprise services on platform (ECS, EKS, API Gateway, ELB, RDS, S3, Lamdba, Glue, CodePipeline)
Experience with open telemetry including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS Distro
Experience with CI/CD (GitHub, Gitlab, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban; Jira for delivery and reporting

Responsibilities

Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, reliable, automated cloud platform that enables self-service and frictionless delivery of cloud services at scale
Lead research, design, architecture and development of enterprise services on AWS Landing zone platform utilizing AWS Well-Architected framework and IaC principles to build secure/resilient/efficient infrastructure
Collaborate across IT to develop enterprise automation strategy and a framework to drive “automate everything” approach for platform deployment and configuration management
Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities that allow for rapid deployment of cloud application and services
Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year automation strategy to simplify delivery model, reduce hand-offs and drive transformational change
Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support modern development architecture supporting always-on enterprise applications and services.
Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market
Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams
Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery
Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units
Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness