VP Engineering Lead - Mobile iOS/Android

Job Overview:

The VP Engineering Lead for Mobile Experience leads development of mobile application and its interaction with the cloud services and platform solutions needed to host business-critical applications that differentiate LPL in the market. This is a hands-on, technical lead role in the Investor Experience organization that will architect and develop mobile-native applications in Android and iOS & support LPL’s overall cloud strategy and migration to AWS. The Engineer Lead is involved in all stages of software development, including front-end development, back-end development, database integrations, user interface, user experience, and back-end server management. The person has to influence the department's strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approaches for project components, and work is performed without direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience with Swift/Objective-C development on iOS & development on Android using Java.

• Collaborate with other leads doing research / design / architecture / development of enterprise services on AWS Landing Zone (ALZ) utilizing IaC/IaaS/ PaaS solutions including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS 

• Builds IaC solutions adhering to DevSecOps best practices utilizing tools such as Git, CloudFormation, Ansible and Terraform

• Build scalable / resilient solutions and ensure proper instrumentation is in place for overall observability of platforms and services.

• Code / Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud.

• Participate in SaFE delivery model to deliver sprint releases through stories/epics utilizing Jira to track all development work and track overall velocity.

• Accountable for site reliability engineering (SRE) activities to build highly available and scalable solutions and ensure problem observability of platforms / services 

• Serve as a subject matter expert to design, administer and support security of infrastructure and enterprise hosting platforms 

• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture and Security.

• Maintain modern development standards with best-practice approaches and development processes.

• Technology: Angular, .Net Core 6, C#, Angular 8+, AWS Cloud, REST API, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Tableau, ELK, MuleSoft, Confluent Kafka

What are we looking for?

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience working with AWS. In depth understanding on AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Landing Zone and DevSecOps.

• 7+ years of Senior Developer experience in designing and implementing complex systems, including developing solutions from scratch.

• 7+ years of Full-stack developer experience designing applications in Angular, developing web services (REST/SOAP), and integrating with vendor APIs.

• 7+ years of extensive web/service development experience with the following technologies: .NET, C#, SQL server, Node, MVC, NuGet, JavaScript/jQuery, HMTL, CSS.

• Experience designing / automating enterprise services on platform (ECS, EKS, API Gateway, ELB, RDS, S3, Glue, PostgreSQL)

Core Competencies:

• Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes Excellent knowledge of and experience with object-oriented concepts and design patterns.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and non-technical

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Motivated and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes.

• Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems.

• Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes.

• Highly c