VP, Development Manager - Trading

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/year

 

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 in