Senior Lead, Data Platform & Cloud Architecture

lplfinancial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 141,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

health benefits

employee stock options

paid time off

volunteer time off

Job summary

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. in Fort Mill, SC, invites a hands-on Technical Lead to drive data platform engineering across the Data Distribution and Data Sharing team. You will lead developers and QA, shape architecture, and deliver scalable data products.

The role emphasizes cloud-based pipelines (Snowflake, DBT, AWS), data contracts, and integration with .NET and Angular. You’ll set SLAs/SLOs, mentor a distributed team, and improve data quality for external customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud and data technologies (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, DBT, AWS).
• 5+ years of ETL experience with Informatica.
• 5+ years experience in SQL server procedures, views, indexes and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and end-to-end design of the Data Distribution and Data Sharing team.
• Establish SLAs/SLOs for data products with uptime, latency, and data quality.
• Lead distributed team of onshore and offshore engineers and QA resources.
• Build data pipelines using Snowflake, DBT, and AWS; integrate with .NET and Angular.
• Design ETL processes and data models.
• Define technical data contracts for downstream consumers to ensure reliability.

Skills

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Organizational skills

Adaptability

Quality focused

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

DBT

AWS

Informatica

GitHub

Octopus

Job description

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. in Fort Mill, SC, invites a hands-on Technical Lead to drive data platform engineering across the Data Distribution and Data Sharing team. You will lead developers and QA, shape architecture, and deliver scalable data products.

The role emphasizes cloud-based pipelines (Snowflake, DBT, AWS), data contracts, and integration with .NET and Angular. You’ll set SLAs/SLOs, mentor a distributed team, and improve data quality for external customers.