VPII, Head of Centrally Managed Technology

Job Overview:

Working independently, the VPII, Software Engineering Manager - Head of Centrally Managed Technology oversees software engineering talent across multiple development teams. The individual will be well-versed in financial, trading, and advisory technologies. As a trusted technology partner, you will drive the outcomes, build partnerships, and help provide transparency on the execution and operational KPIs. This will include working cross-functionally to ensure the development teams deliver quality that is well-defined and understood by the teams.

As the Head of Centrally Managed Technology, you will recruit and coach engineers to ensure they can successfully deliver technology solutions including standards, pre-production environments, and development tools. In addition, this position partners with other Agile team leaders to share learning, mitigate technical dependencies, plan for capacity needs, and establish practice consistency between Agile teams. Activities will also include daily oversight of development quality, and partnering with solution architecture to establish patterns that progress the teams towards scalable platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Transformational leadership experience modernizing trading platforms to improve stability, handle scale, and optimize the Advisor or Investor experience with complex trading platforms. 

• Lead and understand large data sets and ability to drive solutions around the data and trading technologies

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale, resilient and modernize platforms

• Lead engineering teams to buy, build, or integrate solutions based on agile methodology with dedicated teams

• Growth mindset with a passion for innovation, continuous improvements, and driving business growth through trading technology.

• Formulating workable solutions to complex challenges; logically deliberating on courses of action by examining and challenging assumptions, discerning hidden value, objectively evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions.

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to target audiences ranging from the board to individual contributors.

• Measure success by say/do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms  

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design, and implementation of best practices, adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, Cloud practices, SDLC   and release management processes.

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices or make process changes to drive more value for Advisors

• Servant leader who applies leadership principles and fosters a culture of inclusivity and diversity

• Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance Trading Platform applications.

• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in technology leadership roles that span across Technology development, Engineering best practices, product development, and delivery leadership roles preferably within a financial service, or related FinTech firms.

• Minimum of 10 years of developing, cultivating, and leading strong, high-performing teams in an agile environment.

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience in capital markets with a strong understanding of trading, wealth management, and financial industry

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field

Core Competencies:

• The ability to work in a cross-functional team and drive outcomes without having direct authority.

• Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to evaluate business opportunities and evaluate results against established objectives.

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

• Must have executive presence and ability to communicate & engage effectively with senior technology leadership

 

Pay Range:

$186,525-$310,875/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