SVP, Middleware Platform Engineering

LPL Financial is #1 independent broker-dealer in the US, a Fortune 500 company, with assets under custody and advisory assets greater than 1.4 trillion USD. It’s a fast-growing fintech firm (NASDAQ: LPLA) with more than 28,000 advisors and more than 1000 institutional wealth managers leveraging LPL’s technology platform and business services.

At LPL, technology resources are about 35% of the company’s total resource pool, clearly demonstrating that technology is not only supporting our business, but it is truly powering growth and investments. It is an exciting time to be part of LPL technology as we are leveraging the latest and greatest technology and innovation to empower the future growth of the firm.

Why Should You Join the CTO/Infrastructure and Operations Technology Team at LPL Financial?

At LPL Financial, we are in a transformational journey marked by a relentless commitment to innovation and excellence. Our mission is straightforward yet impactful: to empower financial advisors with the most advanced tools and insights, enabling them to offer personalized, efficient, and seamless experiences to their clients.

Central to this mission is our Infrastructure Technology team, which is tasked with developing a next-generation Infrastructure platform that will support the delivery of our world-class applications and tools to our advisors securely with resiliency and stability.  

Job Overview:

This is a replacement position to join one of the largest independent broker-dealers as Head of Middleware Engineering and Delivery. The SVP, Middleware engineering, and delivery will work directly for the CTO and Head of Infrastructure and operations. This role will also be a key contributor to driving the broader Middleware architecture and strategy to support the Firm’s key initiatives such as Data Center application Migration, Application Modernization, and Cloud adoption

Responsibilities

As Head of Middleware platform engineering and delivery for LPL Technology, you will be entrusted with a range of critical responsibilities that are pivotal to our mission and our strategic outcomes.

• Architectural Visionary: Develop and lead a comprehensive roadmap for transforming LPL Financials’ Middleware infrastructure, with a focus on execution and engineering delivery excellence. Your vision will encompass enhancing our Middleware architecture and design to enhance/build and maintain the infrastructure that excels in performance at high volume, security, and scalability, ensuring the resiliency and continuous availability of our services.

• Transformation Leader: Spearheaded complex, enterprise-wide transformation projects with a strategic and results-oriented approach, ensuring our network architecture remains at the industry's cutting edge and can evolve with our business needs.

• Strategic Collaborator: Work closely with SVPs of Application delivery teams, Chief architect and application architects, Production support teams, and product, and business-aligned technology leaders to align our strategic vision with the architectural roadmap, translating advisor/client needs into groundbreaking technical solutions including self-service capabilities across these platforms enabling LPL’s developer community to rapidly onboard, innovate, and deliver new features and value to our customers.

• Technical Mentor and Guide: Serve as an industry expert for enterprise middleware technology, and standards while providing architectural and strategic consulting in the areas of external trends, best practices, and adherence to standards. Inspire and lead a team of talented middleware engineers and architects, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Technology Evaluation and Adoption: Develop a strategy and roadmap for integrating these platforms into a common management approach using DevSecOps and infrastructure-as-code pipelines and principles. Protect customer experience through capabilities that detect and restore system issues as quickly as possible (through telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and both automated and manual recovery).

• Customer Focus: Intense focus on both functional and non-functional quality of all platforms – delighting customers with always-on, high-performing systems that can scale with the company’s growth. Establish feedback loops that ensure continuous improvement and prioritization of the highest-value customer needs.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology leadership roles that span across architecture, application development, and engineering preferably within a financial service or related FinTech firm.

• Minimum of 10 years in application engineering and management involving Middleware technologies, including a mix of cloud and on-premises experience.

• Minimum of 10 years delivering and operating in an Agile model where dependency management and priority trade-off conversations are key to successful execution.

• Knowledge of Cloud technologies and architecture. 

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing outcome-oriented engineers, including onshore, nearshore, and offshore personnel

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple, concurrent initiatives and drive projects to completion.

• Experience in vendor selection and contractor management

• Experience activating and managing high-performing 24x7 support teams

• Ability to create a strategy and execute on a roadmap that delivers to the strategy.

• Flexibility and organizational change management experience.

• Expert consensus-builder who drives change across initiatives within and outside direct accountability and evaluates solutions to the most complex business challenges.

• Excellent communication skills, capable of working with leadership to demystify complex data concepts into tangible plans and strategies, underlining the importance of cloud adoption pathways and pinpointing initiatives that resonate with the intended architectural and business aims.

• A zealous and constant learner, keen to delve into the latest technological advancements, modern workplace practices, and the finer points of digital transformation.

• Experience within the financial sector, especially in wealth management, securities, and trading, is preferred.

Pay Range:

$206,500.00 - $344,100.00

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!

Why LPL? 

At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.

We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees. We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.

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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.