AVP Tech, Software Development

Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!

LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 22,000 financial advisors, 1,100 institution-based investment programs, and 500 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Job Overview:

At LPL Financial we consider it our mission to take care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients.  For this position of Assistant Vice President, on the Investment Management and Trading team, We are seeking a result-driven and goal-oriented AVP Tech Lead to create highly available and performant systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing high throughput, mission-critical business applications using Cloud based technologies. They should be well-versed in financial, trading, and advisory technologies. As a technology-savvy leader, you will work with cross-functional teams to ensure development, deliver quality, and meet deadlines. This hands-on technical lead role in the trading organization will involve designing, architecting, and developing cloud-native and on-prem services to support LPL’s overall strategy and transformation

Job Responsibilities/Requirements:

The candidate will serve as a solution expert working independently, responsible for development and delivery of critical trading applications meeting business goals. Will join and lead a high velocity, multi-functional development team focused on large scale multi-year programs. The role will require flexible thinking as the team works to integrate existing business and technology concepts with innovative design to deliver a practical and scalable platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a tech team to design, develop, test and implement highly available and scalable technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction.

• Deep understanding and seasoned on AWS platform and Cloud Devops.

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

• Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, DevOps and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.

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

• 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.

• 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 industry best practices adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.

• Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance trading platforms/applications.

• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.  

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in owning and driving full stack applications as hands on Engineering Tech Lead - guiding, solutioning, delivering and documenting team’s development efforts towards successful project delivery and application support.

• 6+ years of experience with designing scalable APIs using containers over Docker/Kubernetes.

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with event driven architecture and stream processing with Kafka or similar technolo