Senior Cloud Delivery Architect - AWS & Security

LPL Financial; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 155,942 - 259,869; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial in San Diego, CA seeks a VP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead AWS infrastructure design in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment. You will act as the AWS SME for security, IAM, and services such as Lambda, Glue, RDS, and Step Functions, while guiding architecture choices and delivery across teams.

Responsibilities include defining cloud architectures, driving automation with Terraform, coordinating release and change control, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure reliable,

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud architecture design.
• 7+ years deploying applications using AWS.
• 7+ years developing architecture diagrams and docs.
• 7+ years building specs with Excel and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers and teams to capture infrastructure requirements.
• Provide SME guidance on AWS security, IAM, and services.
• Develop cloud reference architectures and drive roadmap planning.
• Lead automation and efficiency initiatives via IaC and monitoring.
• Use Jira to track progress and report status.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

AWS security & IAM

Stakeholder collaboration

Agile teamwork

Capacity modeling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

AWS Solutions Architect (certs a plus)

Tools

Terraform

AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Kafka, SQS)

Excel

Active Directory integration

Jira

Job description

LPL Financial in San Diego, CA seeks a VP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead AWS infrastructure design in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment. You will act as the AWS SME for security, IAM, and services such as Lambda, Glue, RDS, and Step Functions, while guiding architecture choices and delivery across teams.

Responsibilities include defining cloud architectures, driving automation with Terraform, coordinating release and change control, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure reliable,