LPL Financial · 1 week ago
VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation Leader
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$192K/yr - $320K/yr
10+ years expLPL Financial is a leading wealth management firm that empowers professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. The VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation Leader will lead the engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation, developing strategies to enable cloud-native designs and accelerate cloud adoption.
FinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, reliable, automated cloud platform that enables self-service and frictionless delivery of cloud services at scale
Lead research, design, architecture and development of enterprise services on AWS Landing zone platform utilizing AWS Well-Architected framework and IaC principles to build secure/resilient/efficient infrastructure
Collaborate across IT to develop enterprise automation strategy and a framework to drive “automate everything” approach for platform deployment and configuration management
Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities that allow for rapid deployment of cloud application and services
Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year automation strategy to simplify delivery model, reduce hand-offs and drive transformational change
Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support modern development architecture supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market
Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams
Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery
Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units
Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering leadership focused on scalable cloud infrastructure and platform development on AWS
Leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institutions
Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting / developing / transforming cloud platforms and services. (migrations & native implementations)
Proven experience with AWS Landing Zone and Account Vending Machine framework to build robust catalog of services that accelerate overall time to market
Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
Proven experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/DevOps/SRE principles to deliver new platforms and services
Proven experience with cloud financial management that brings overall clarity and accountability of operating IT workloads in the cloud (FinOps)
Bachelor's/Advance degree and/or related field experience required
Benefits
401K matching
Health benefits
Employee stock options
Paid time off
Volunteer time off
And more
Company
LPL Financial
LPL Financial provides investment solutions and tools for independent financial advisors.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.5B2025-03-31Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2024-06-03Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2010-11-18IPO
Leadership Team
Rich Steinmeier
Interim CEO
Sid Vyas
Chief Technology Officer/EVP
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