AVP Technical Product Owner

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 an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

Job Overview:

Does the idea of crafting exceptional, modern data-driven solutions with leading edge cloud-centered technologies excite you?  As part of the Data Foundations group, your focus will be the creation of mission-critical software that levels up our Fortune 500 organization and advances fintech with an emphasis on managing data-centric products within the wealth management domain, leveraging AWS cloud technologies to deliver secure and scalable solutions.

Through partnerships with Technology and Business Owners, you will leverage your Product experience and technical prowess, translating the needs of stakeholders, capturing requirements and incorporating technology, while advocating for and collecting feedback, through Agile planning and validation, guiding the implementation of optimal, intuitive, extensible and scalable solutions that excel and delight within our extensive technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

This position will require one to wear many hats related to data product management and cloud solutions development in the wealth management space, including: project and technical solution analysis, documenting stakeholder needs, socializing actionable team-centered requirements, facilitating discussions describing approach optionality with leadership, as well as the collection and measurement of meaningful data and feedback, while directly planning and enabling the implementation of technical solutions to:

• Guide the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, from ideation through delivery, ensuring alignment to business goals, operational excellence, and cloud architecture best practices.

• Facilitate solution planning, refinement and execution, including whiteboarding, persona experiences and journey mapping, along with level of effort estimations

• Imagine and present potential solutions leveraging modern technology standards to stakeholders

• Communicate regularly with technical and non-technical groups to provide ongoing solution alignment and product support

• Evaluate new development proposals and investigate potential solutions and process improvements to deliver and perform well and scale

• Assist management in the assessment of product and operations risks and issues

• Support the creation and maintenance of solution documentation

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:

We are looking for strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class experience and are looking for individuals that thrive and take ownership in a fast-paced environment, are value-focused, team-oriented and are able to execute both strategically and tactically as needed, while encouraging creativity and continuous improvement, as well as:

• 8+ years of experience guiding technical product development within a financial services wealth management organization

• Experience synthesizing, distilling and translating imperfect business, product and technology requirements into clear and concise direction for a software engineering team

• Advanced experience utilizing project and solution management systems (i.e. Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365 suite, etc.) for story/issue management and related reporting at different altitudes

• Experience leveraging AWS services in solution planning and implementation

• Passionate about product roadmap curation and continuous updates that accommodate optionality, while navigating product trade-offs and advocating for efficient value creation

• Experience contributing to and operating within an Agile team environment

Core Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal and consultative skills

• Detail-oriented and capable of delivering at a high-level of accuracy

• Experience as a trusted wayfinder navigating complex organizations for oneself and on behalf of others