VP Cloud Delivery Architect: AWS, Security & Automation

LPL Financial; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 155,942 - 239,091; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead AWS infrastructure design within Infrastructure Solutions Architecture. The role emphasizes building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services, guiding teams through requirements, changes, and release processes in a fast-paced environment.

You will own cloud reference architectures, collaborate with customers and project teams, and mentor engineers on best practices for Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, and related services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud architecture design.
• 7+ years as AWS SME deploying applications.
• 7+ years creating architecture diagrams and documentation.
• 7+ years developing build specs with Excel.
• 7+ years designing with AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Kafka, SQS, Redis/ElastiCache, Redshift, API Gateway).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers and project teams to understand business requirements and capture the technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design.
• Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert in AWS security, identity and access management, users, roles, policies, and permissions.
• Provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services, focusing on Lambda, Glue, RDS, Step Functions, etc.
• 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 as part of an agile team.
• Use Jira consistently to track work and provide project status updates.
• Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments.
• Perform capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for various platforms and environments.
• Recommend changes/enhancements to improve system availability, reliability, and performance.
• Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics.
• Execute multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward.

Skills

AWS expertise

Cloud architecture

IAM security

IaC (Terraform)

Performance & availability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect to lead AWS infrastructure design within Infrastructure Solutions Architecture. The role emphasizes building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services, guiding teams through requirements, changes, and release processes in a fast-paced environment.

You will own cloud reference architectures, collaborate with customers and project teams, and mentor engineers on best practices for Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, and related services.