Head of Kafka Platform & Middleware Engineering

LPL Financial; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 137,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial in Austin, TX is seeking a VP, Middleware Engineering Manager to lead support and operations of Kafka and Swagger Hub platforms, driving a high‑performing platform team across on‑premise and cloud environments.

You will develop strategy, roadmaps, and operational metrics for Kafka platforms, manage incidents, automation, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, and collaborate with onshore, nearshore, and offshore engineers to deliver secure, scalable middleware services for the firm.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years leading strong Kafka platform teams.
• 4+ years in platform engineering with Middleware technologies.
• 5+ years delivering and operating in Agile/Kanban model.
• 5-7 years with Cloud technologies, DevSecOps and IaC tooling.
• 2+ years managing 24x7 support teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage Kafka messaging, streaming and integration platforms.
• Lead Kafka Middleware Platform Engineering Ops for on-prem and cloud.
• Develop high-performing platform team, budgeting and vendor management.
• Create strategy, roadmaps, and metrics for Kafka platforms.
• Consolidate platforms into cloud and drive automation and self-service.

Skills

Kafka

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Scripting

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Confluent Kafka

IBM MQ

Axway

IBM Message Brokers

Message Gateways

Job description

LPL Financial in Austin, TX is seeking a VP, Middleware Engineering Manager to lead support and operations of Kafka and Swagger Hub platforms, driving a high‑performing platform team across on‑premise and cloud environments.

You will develop strategy, roadmaps, and operational metrics for Kafka platforms, manage incidents, automation, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, and collaborate with onshore, nearshore, and offshore engineers to deliver secure, scalable middleware services for the firm.