AVP - Functional Design Cloud Engineer

LPL Financial Global Capability Center; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial Global Capability Center in Hyderabad is seeking an AVP, Functional Design Cloud Engineer. You will be hands-on in Terraform, driving build-ready specifications and reference patterns within LPL's Cloud Center of Excellence.

This role blends architecture guidance with practical engineering deliverables across multiple pods. You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and leadership to translate high-level designs into scalable, well-architected constructs.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud engineering with Terraform.
• Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Strong collaboration with architecture and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Take high-level designs and produce detailed, build-ready engineering specifications and Terraform modules.
• Curate sections of the cross-CCOE reference pattern library and ADRs.
• Partner with the VP and Principal Engineer to align tooling and platform strategy.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Cloud Engineering

Enterprise Architecture

ADR

Tools

Terraform Cloud

GitHub Actions

Job description

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad.

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL’s success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We are proud to expand in Hyderabad. Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

What if you could

build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We are proud to expand in Hyderabad. Join us as we create something extraordinary together.

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Functional Design Engineering & Strategy is where Enterprise Architecture intent becomes shippable Terraform. As AVP, Functional Design Cloud Engineer, you'll spend most of your day producing the build-ready engineering designs, reference patterns, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and proof-of-concept code that downstream engineers actually use. You'll partner with the VP, Functional Design Engineering and the Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead so the path between architecture and shipping is short and well-paved. If you'd rather turn diagrams into pull requests than slides, this is your seat.

Job Overview

As the AVP, Functional Design Cloud Engineer, you are a hands‑on senior cloud engineer in the Functional Design Engineering & Strategy pod within the Foundations team in LPL's Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE). You partner with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, the VP, Functional Design Engineering, and engineering teams and pods across CCOE to translate enterprise architecture intent into implementable, well‑architected, code‑driven solutions. You take high‑level designs from architects and the VP, Functional Design Engineering and produce detailed, opinionated, build‑ready engineering specifications, reference patterns, Terraform modules, and proof‑of‑concept builds. You also curate sections of the cross‑CCOE reference pattern library — domain‑tagged Terraform module bundles, reference architectures, anti‑patterns, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). LPL is an AWS‑first CCOE: a multi‑account landing zone with 100+ private reusable Terraform modules that enable 60+ AWS services, all delivered through Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions. You spend the majority of your time hands‑on in Terraform code, ADRs, reference patterns, and proof‑of‑concept work across LPL's US offices and India Global Capability Center (GCC). Your impact comes from hands‑on engineering, peer mentorship, and cross‑pod partnership — not from direct reports or positional authority.

Responsibilities

• Take high‑level designs from Enterprise Architecture and the VP, Functional Design Engineering and produce detailed, opinionated, build‑ready engineering specifications aligned to the AWS Well‑Architected Framework and LPL standards. Hands‑on author reference patterns, Terraform modules, and proof‑of‑concept builds in the highest‑ambiguity areas where engineering is still discovering the right answer
• Curate sections of the cross‑CCOE reference pattern library: domain‑tagged Terraform module bundles, reference architectures, anti‑patterns, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). Partner closely with the Principal Engineer, Cloud Strategy Lead so that tooling, IaC, and self‑service platform strategy stay aligned with enterprise design direction
• Participate in design reviews, architecture review boards, and engineering deep‑