VP of Kafka & Middleware Platform Engineering

LPL Financial LLC; Fort Mill, Town of Charlotte (SC, NY); On-site; USD 137,000 - 229,000; 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. is seeking a VP, Middleware Engineering Manager to lead support and operations of Kafka and Swagger Hub platforms within the Technology organization.

You will guide platform strategy, roadmap, and team growth to deliver reliable messaging capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments. The role emphasizes incident management, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years leading strong Kafka platform teams.
• 4+ years in platform engineering and management with Middleware technologies.
• 5+ years delivering in Agile/Kanban with dependency management and prioritization.
• 5-7 years with Cloud technologies, DevSecOps and Infrastructure-as-code engineering.

Responsibilities

• Manage mission critical Kafka messaging, streaming and integration platforms.
• Lead Kafka Middleware Platform Engineering Operations for on premise and cloud-based platforms.
• Develop a high-performing platform team, handle financial planning, vendor management, contract negotiations.
• Devise strategy, roadmaps, and operational metrics for Kafka platforms.
• Manage incident resolutions, platform upgrades, maintenance and drive automation for Kafka and Swagger Hub platforms.
• Help application teams onboard to messaging platforms.
• Deliver internal automations and self-service capabilities for the developer community.
• Install, manage, and maintain messaging platforms.
• Consolidate platforms into cloud and maintain operational hygiene.
• Contribute to integrating these platforms into a common management approach using DevSecOps and infrastructure-as-code pipelines and principles.
• Establish feedback loops that ensure continuous improvement and prioritization of the highest value customer needs.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of high-performing outcome-oriented engineers, including onshore, nearshore, and offshore personnel.

Skills

Kafka

Platform leadership

Cloud technologies

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Incident management

Tools

Confluent Kafka

IBM MQ

Axway

IBM Message Brokers

Message Gateways

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Jenkins

Dynatrace

Splunk

New Relic

Nagios

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. is seeking a VP, Middleware Engineering Manager to lead support and operations of Kafka and Swagger Hub platforms within the Technology organization.

You will guide platform strategy, roadmap, and team growth to deliver reliable messaging capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments. The role emphasizes incident management, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams.