SVP AI Product Development & PDLC Leadership

LPL Financial; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 240,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

LPL Financial seeks a visionary Head of Development Practices and AI Product Development Lifecycle to define a target-state PDLC and lead enterprise transformation across AI-native product development. You will shape governance, team models, and platforms to deliver faster, higher-quality software with responsible AI practices.

Reporting to the CTO, you will govern risk controls, quality, and delivery metrics while partnering with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to align PDLC with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in software/enterprise technology transformations.
• Proven success delivering enterprise-scale delivery transformation with modern PDLC/SDLC, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, compliance, risk, and audit controls into delivery in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target-state AI-native PDLC, including its vision, principles, operating model, stage gates, decision rights, roles, success measures, and multi-year transformation roadmap.
• Design the target-state team model for AI-augmented product development, including team composition, agent roles, human-agent collaboration patterns, escalation paths, pilot sequencing, scaling criteria, and migration from current delivery structures.
• Establish enterprise standards for agentic development, including agent taxonomy, workflow orchestration, prompt and context management, tool integration, secure data handling, auditability, and human oversight requirements.
• Build the PDLC platform and toolchain strategy with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and AI/ML teams across IDE integrations, CI/CD, test automation, observability, knowledge systems, and agent orchestration platforms.
• Define and govern outcome-based measures for cycle time, release frequency, quality, defect rates, agent utilization and effectiveness, developer experience, cost-to-deliver, technical debt, operational resilience, and business value.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to align PDLC adoption with product strategy, portfolio priorities, modernization objectives, and delivery commitments.
• Embed controls with Enterprise Risk, Information Security, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Model Risk Management, ensuring responsible AI use and regulatory readiness throughout the development value stream.
• Lead organizational transformation and workforce evolution, including role redesign, skills development, hiring strategy, change leadership, performance expectations, coaching, and adoption support for AI-augmented teams.
• Establish governance and executive reporting for PDLC maturity, adoption, exceptions, risks, investment needs, and realized value; advise senior leadership on technology strategy, organizational design, and competitive implications.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing leadership team responsible for PDLC strategy, platform enablement, transformation delivery, engineering excellence, and developer experience.

Skills

Executive leadership

Enterprise-scale delivery

PDLC design

AI-assisted development

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

AI/ML platforms

Job description

LPL Financial seeks a visionary Head of Development Practices and AI Product Development Lifecycle to define a target-state PDLC and lead enterprise transformation across AI-native product development. You will shape governance, team models, and platforms to deliver faster, higher-quality software with responsible AI practices.

Reporting to the CTO, you will govern risk controls, quality, and delivery metrics while partnering with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to align PDLC with