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 a meaningful impact? If you’re ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.
Job Description
The Vice President of Development Manager oversees software engineering talent across multiple development teams, working independently and cross-functionally to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions. This role requires expertise in financial, trading, and advisory technologies and plays a critical part in designing and developing cloud-native and on-premises services that support LPL’s cloud strategy and migration to AWS.
Responsibilities
Lead research, design, architecture, and development of enterprise services on AWS, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway.
Build collaborative relationships with architecture, data, product, and business teams to scale platforms, improve resiliency, and modernize systems.
Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery for teams building end-to-end applications in the cloud.
Develop solutions for complex challenges through logical analysis and objective evaluation of evidence and assumptions.
Measure success through delivery velocity, defect remediation, and value creation for trading platforms.
Provide technical leadership and ensure adherence to modernization practices, cloud standards, SDLC, and release management processes.
Influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices and drive process improvements.
Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance trading platform applications.
Ensure compliance with service level agreements and contingency plans for system and application availability.
What Are We Looking For?
We’re seeking collaborative leaders who thrive in fast-paced environments and deliver exceptional results. Our ideal candidates embrace innovation, act with integrity, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and shared success.
Requirements
Minimum 5 years of experience in technology leadership roles involving software development, engineering best practices, product development, and delivery.
At least 3 years of experience designing and deploying infrastructure using AWS services, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, and API Gateway.
5+ years of experience with messaging and streaming technologies (EMS, MQ, Kafka) and programming languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
7+ years of experience building event-driven, high-availability, low-latency platforms for trading systems.
7+ years of experience in capital markets with a working knowledge of financial, trading, and advisory platforms.
Preferences
Experience with cloud migration strategies and modernization initiatives.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
Pay Range:
$155,288-$258,813/yearActual 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.
Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity
At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.
Why LPL?
Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here!
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
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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What We Do
Financial advice is changing, and at LPL Financial, we’re at the forefront. We’re building a future where advisors can—with no friction or complexity, as simple as turning the dials—pick the business model, services, technology, and product mix that best meet their clients’ needs.
With one platform, one sign-on, and one team to call, you can take your business anywhere you want it to go. There are no limits to your growth, and we’ll partner with you every step of the way.
Your greatness is our goal.
LPL Financial is a leader in the retail financial advice market and the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer*. We serve independent financial advisors and financial institutions, providing them with the technology, research, clearing and compliance services, and practice management programs they need to create and grow thriving practices. LPL enables them to provide objective guidance to millions of American families seeking wealth management, retirement planning, financial planning and asset management solutions. LPL.com
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