AVP, Reference Data Engineering Lead

LPL Financial; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 119,068 - 198,378; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Data Services – Reference Data Engineering Lead to guide the Reference Data Master team. You will design and enhance party reference data systems to support onboarding, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, and enterprise data consumption.

You will build cloud-native pipelines on AWS, integrate third-party data, ensure data quality, and collaborate with governance, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure data services.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience serving as a technical lead, project lead, or people leader.
• Experience developing and supporting cloud-native applications, APIs, and data platforms.
• Experience developing event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and distributed data services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and support of party reference data applications, APIs, and data services.
• Partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to deliver reference data solutions supporting client, counterparty, issuer, and legal entity domains.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native data pipelines utilizing AWS services.
• Support modernization of legacy reference data platforms through cloud migrations.
• Integrate third-party reference data sources to support enrichment, validation, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and support APIs and data services used by CRM, compliance, reporting, operations, and trading platforms.
• Implement data quality controls, validation rules, matching, deduplication, survivorship rules, and lineage tracking.
• Collaborate with data governance and architecture teams to support standards and metadata management.
• Participate in Agile planning, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint execution, and Jira usage.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud engineering

Agile delivery

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS services (Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, Aurora/Postgres, RDS, MSK/Kafka)

Snowflake

SQL

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Data Services – Reference Data Engineering Lead to guide the Reference Data Master team. You will design and enhance party reference data systems to support onboarding, KYC/AML, regulatory reporting, and enterprise data consumption.

You will build cloud-native pipelines on AWS, integrate third-party data, ensure data quality, and collaborate with governance, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure data services.