Senior Manager, Data Engineering & Orchestration

LPL Financial; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial seeks a VPII, Data Engineering Manager to lead a team driving enterprise data orchestration, data observability, and legacy workload modernization onto the Data Foundations Platform. You will oversee technical delivery and guide teams toward scalable, secure solutions in a large enterprise.

You will direct end-to-end design, testing, deployment, and production support for major data pipelines and platforms, while mentoring engineers to operate with increasing autonomy and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of progressive data engineering or data-platform experience, including at least 5 years leading technical teams and delivery in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and modernizing large-scale data pipelines, databases, and data platforms that process high-volume workloads.
• Production experience delivering end-to-end workflows in AWS, including infrastructure as code with Terraform and orchestration using Airflow or comparable technologies.
• Experience leading through modern and legacy data environments, including SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, ETL and batch processing, event-driven architectures, data modeling, lineage, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the engineering roadmap for enterprise data orchestration, data observability, batch modernization, and migration of legacy workloads to the Data Foundations Platform.
• Direct the end-to-end design, delivery, testing, deployment, reliability, and production support of large-scale data pipelines, databases, platforms, and event-driven workflows.
• Provide sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, guide architecture decisions, review engineering trade-offs, unblock teams, and ensure solutions are secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable.

Skills

Data engineering

Platform architecture

Technical leadership

Roadmap ownership

Observability/Reliability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

Informatica

SQL Server

.NET

Job description

LPL Financial seeks a VPII, Data Engineering Manager to lead a team driving enterprise data orchestration, data observability, and legacy workload modernization onto the Data Foundations Platform. You will oversee technical delivery and guide teams toward scalable, secure solutions in a large enterprise.

You will direct end-to-end design, testing, deployment, and production support for major data pipelines and platforms, while mentoring engineers to operate with increasing autonomy and