AVP, Software Engineering

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

At LPL Financial, we create opportunities for people to grow careers that reflect their initiative, curiosity, and impact. With access to modern technology, a collaborative culture, and the ability to influence meaningful outcomes, our teams help advisors deliver objective guidance to the clients who depend on them every day.

If you’re interested in contributing to a large‑scale cloud transformation, this is an opportunity to help shape cloud‑native, omni‑channel platforms that support employees, independent financial advisors, and their clients across the organization.

Job Overview

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Cloud Lead to join our Technology organization. Reporting to an Application Development Manager, this role works closely with business partners, architects, and engineering teams to design and deliver scalable, cloud‑native solutions aligned with product roadmaps and LPL’s long‑term technology direction.

This role is well suited for a hands‑on cloud engineering leader who enjoys working in complex environments, values partnership across teams, and contributes to building reliable, resilient platforms that support innovation and enterprise needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, enterprise applications in cloud or hybrid‑cloud environments

• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, deployment, and support

• Partner with architects and engineering teams to design solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and cloud practices

• Build and support reusable core platform components used across applications and services

• Participate in troubleshooting and technical issue resolution

• Review design proposals and offer recommendations to support scalability, performance, and reliability

• Contribute to conceptual designs and high‑level effort estimates

• Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation

• Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Release Management, and Change Control teams to support consistent and reliable delivery

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing full‑stack applications using C#, Angular (or comparable frameworks), and relational databases

• Experience designing and delivering solutions in cloud or hybrid‑cloud environments

• Hands‑on experience with AWS services such as ECS or EKS, Fargate, VPC, S3, RDS or Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, EC2, and Lambda

• Experience developing SQL for Oracle or PostgreSQL, including complex query design

• Experience contributing to software architecture and product‑based application development

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud development or engineering certification (AWS preferred)

• Experience working in Agile development environments

• Familiarity with microservices architectures, API‑driven systems, and event‑streaming platforms (Kafka and/or StreamSets)

• Experience with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform

• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated delivery

• Experience guiding or mentoring engineers through technical leadership

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and partner effectively across teams

Additional Information

This position does not offer work authorization sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must have valid U.S. work authorization that does not require employer sponsorship.

 

Pay Range:

$154,500.00 - $257,500.00
 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
 

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

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Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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