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LPL Financial is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive innovation and modernization across our Trading Technology organization. As Vice President, Development Manager, you will lead engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and supporting cloud-native and enterprise trading platforms that are critical to the advisor and client experience.
This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy, drive cloud transformation initiatives, advance engineering best practices, and partner closely with business and technology leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions. If you are passionate about cloud technologies, financial services platforms, and leading teams through complex transformation initiatives, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact.
Job Overview
The Vice President, Development Manager is responsible for providing engineering leadership across multiple software development teams supporting Trading Technology platforms. This role oversees technology strategy, cloud modernization efforts, engineering delivery, platform reliability, and organizational development. The VP partners with Architecture, Product, Data, Business, and Infrastructure teams to design and implement scalable cloud-based solutions while promoting engineering excellence and operational stability across critical trading systems.
Responsibilities
Lead software engineering teams responsible for developing, modernizing, and supporting trading platform applications and services.
Define and execute cloud modernization strategies leveraging AWS and enterprise platform technologies.
Partner with Architecture, Product Management, Data, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with strategic objectives.
Drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native and hybrid platform solutions.
Establish engineering standards, development best practices, modernization frameworks, and software delivery processes.
Support implementation of cloud services including compute, storage, container, database, integration, and API technologies.
Promote self-service platform capabilities, automation, and engineering productivity improvements.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, solution design, mentorship, and engineering governance.
Ensure platform performance, resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives are met.
Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, inclusion, and innovation.
Monitor engineering delivery, quality, reliability, and operational performance metrics to drive successful business outcomes.
What Are We Looking For?
We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.
Requirements
5+ years of leadership experience overseeing software engineering teams, technology delivery, and engineering best practices.
3+ years of experience designing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based solutions utilizing AWS services and modern cloud architecture principles.
5+ years of experience developing or supporting distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures, or related application technologies using languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
7+ years of experience supporting high-availability, scalable, and performance-sensitive application platforms.
Experience within financial services, capital markets, trading technology, wealth management, fintech, or related regulated industries.
Core Competencies
Technology leadership and engineering team development.
Cloud architecture and modernization strategy.
Strategic problem solving and analytical decision-making.
Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.
DevOps, SDLC, and software delivery governance.
Communication and organizational leadership.
Platform reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
Preferences
Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, EFS, and EBS.
Experience with Kafka, enterprise messaging platforms, event-streaming technologies, or distributed integration architectures.
Experience with trading platforms, brokerage operations, advisor technology, or capital markets systems.
Experience leading cloud migration, platform modernization, and transformation initiatives.
Experience building self-service engineering platforms, automation frameworks, or developer enablement capabilities.
Pay Range:
$155,300.00 - $258,800.00Actual 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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of leadership experience overseeing software engineering teams, technology delivery, and engineering best practices.
- 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based solutions utilizing AWS services and modern cloud architecture principles.
- 5+ years of experience developing or supporting distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures, or related application technologies using languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
- 7+ years of experience supporting high-availability, scalable, and performance-sensitive application platforms.
- Experience within financial services, capital markets, trading technology, wealth management, fintech, or related regulated industries.
- Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, EFS, and EBS.
- Experience with Kafka, enterprise messaging platforms, event-streaming technologies, or distributed integration architectures.
- Experience leading cloud migration, platform modernization, and transformation initiatives.
- Experience building self-service engineering platforms, automation frameworks, or developer enablement capabilities.
- Experience with trading platforms, brokerage operations, advisor technology, or capital markets systems.
LPL Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about LPL Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by LPL Financial.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a company 401(k) match that is frequently highlighted as a strong component of total rewards. Feedback suggests these features meaningfully enhance long‑term financial value.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan with a meaningful discount and lookback is highlighted as accessible ownership. Feedback suggests the plan adds tangible upside beyond base salary.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave has been expanded alongside family‑building and adoption support. Feedback suggests these benefits compare well to large‑employer standards.
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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 Securities and Advisory Services offered through LPL Financial. A registered investment advisor, Member FINRA/SIPC.
