Senior AWS Cloud Delivery Architect

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 123,497 - 205,897; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC, seeks an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead the design of reliable, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure within its Infrastructure Solutions Architecture and Engineering organization. The role works in a fast-paced environment to identify requirements and facilitate implementation while following change control and release processes.

The candidate will collaborate with customers and project teams, provide architectural guidance on AWS services, security, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud architecture design experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS expertise deploying applications.
• 5+ years developing architecture diagrams and documentation.
• 5+ years documenting build specifications using Excel.
• 5+ years designing and developing with common AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Kafka, SQS, Redis, Redshift, API Gateway).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers and project teams to understand business requirements and produce an infrastructure design.
• Perform system analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert in AWS security, identity and access management, and related services.
• Provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services such as Lambda, Glue, RDS, Step Functions, and others.
• Define and develop new cloud reference architectures.
• Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams, and engineering groups.
• Contribute to policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with project team members within an agile environment.
• Use Jira consistently to track work and provide project status updates.
• Provide guidance on infrastructure deployments.
• Perform capacity and availability modeling for various platforms and environments.
• Recommend changes and enhancements that improve system availability, reliability, and performance.
• Promote automation and efficiency opportunities.
• Help create and maintain delivery metrics.
• Execute multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

AWS expertise

Architecture diagrams

Excel specs

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

AWS cert preferred

Tools

Terraform

AWS Services

Active Directory

Job description

LPL Financial in Fort Mill, SC, seeks an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead the design of reliable, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure within its Infrastructure Solutions Architecture and Engineering organization. The role works in a fast-paced environment to identify requirements and facilitate implementation while following change control and release processes.

The candidate will collaborate with customers and project teams, provide architectural guidance on AWS services, security, and