VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation Leader

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:

The VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation will lead an engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation. As a senior leader in I&O organization, you will develop and execute overall platform engineering strategy that enables cloud native designs and accelerates cloud adoption to meet overall business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, reliable, automated cloud platform that enables self-service and frictionless delivery of cloud services at scale

• Lead research, design, architecture and development of enterprise services on AWS Landing zone platform utilizing AWS Well-Architected framework and IaC principles to build secure/resilient/efficient infrastructure

• Collaborate across IT to develop enterprise automation strategy and a framework to drive “automate everything” approach for platform deployment and configuration management

• Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities that allow for rapid deployment of cloud application and services 

• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year automation strategy to simplify delivery model, reduce hand-offs and drive transformational change

• Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support modern development architecture supporting always-on enterprise applications and services. 

• Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement 

• Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market

• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy 

• Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams

• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization

• Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery

• Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units

• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services 

• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization

• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness 

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:

• 10+ years of software engineering leadership focused on scalable cloud infrastructure and platform development on AWS. 

• Leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institutions.

• Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting / developing / transforming cloud platforms and services. (migrations & native implementations)

• Proven experience with AWS Landing Zone and Account Vending Machine framework to build robust catalog of services that accelerate overall time to market

• Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation

• Proven experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/DevOps/SRE principles to deliver new platforms and services

• Proven experience with cloud financial management that brings overall clarity and accountability of operating IT workloads in the cloud (FinOps)

• Bachelor’s/Advance degree and/or related field experience required

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

• Agile mindset; Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery

• In depth understanding on AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Landing Zone and DevSecOps

• 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 create and articulate inspiring vision for the engineering organization

• Extensive experience deploying system management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage compute infrastructure at scale

• Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams

• Experience designing / automating VPC solutions across AWS networking services (Direct Connect, VPM Gateway, Private Link, VPC Peering, Transit Gateway) 

• Experience designing / automating data management solutions across AWS storage services (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier, Storage Gateway

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

• Experience with open telemetry including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, AWS Distro

• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub, Gitlab, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)

• Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban; Jira for delivery and reporting 

Pay Range:

$192,121-$320,201/yearActual 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 institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity

At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.

Why LPL?

• Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!

• Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!

• Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!

• Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!

• Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!

• Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!

• Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here!

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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