VP, Trading Tech & Cloud Modernization Leader

LPL Financial; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive modernization across our Trading Technology organization. As Vice President, Development Manager, you will guide engineering teams responsible for cloud-native and enterprise trading platforms that support advisors and clients.

You will influence technology strategy, pursue cloud transformation, and promote engineering excellence while partnering with business and technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of leadership experience overseeing software engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based solutions utilizing AWS services and modern cloud architecture principles.
• 5+ years developing or supporting distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures, or related application technologies using languages such as C#, Java, or Python.
• 7+ years of experience supporting high-availability, scalable, and performance-sensitive application platforms.
• Experience within financial services, capital markets, trading technology, wealth management, fintech, or related regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead software engineering teams responsible for developing, modernizing, and supporting trading platform applications and services.
• Define and execute cloud modernization strategies leveraging AWS and enterprise platform technologies.
• Partner with Architecture, Product Management, Data, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with strategic objectives.
• Drive the design, development, and deployment of scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native and hybrid platform solutions.
• Establish engineering standards, development best practices, modernization frameworks, and software delivery processes.
• Support implementation of cloud services including compute, storage, container, database, integration, and API technologies.
• Promote self-service platform capabilities, automation, and engineering productivity improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, solution design, mentorship, and engineering governance.
• Ensure platform performance, resiliency, availability, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives are met.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, inclusion, and innovation.
• Monitor engineering delivery, quality, reliability, and operational performance metrics to drive successful business outcomes.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

DevOps

SDLC

Cross-functional collaboration

Platform reliability

Communication

Tools

AWS services

Kafka

Trading platforms

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive modernization across our Trading Technology organization. As Vice President, Development Manager, you will guide engineering teams responsible for cloud-native and enterprise trading platforms that support advisors and clients.

You will influence technology strategy, pursue cloud transformation, and promote engineering excellence while partnering with business and technology leadership to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.