LPL Financial · 11 hours ago
VPII, Database Administration Manager
Austin TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$192K/yr - $320K/yr
10+ years expLPL Financial is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S., empowering professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals. The VPII, Database Administration Manager will lead the platform engineering organization responsible for enterprise data platforms, defining and executing database platform strategy and overseeing the engineering of scalable data solutions.
FinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for enterprise data platform architecture and engineering
Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack)
Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
Provide Tier 3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations
Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
Qualification
Required
10+ years of data solution architecture, design, development and platform engineering experience
10+ years of progressive leadership experience working within large, global financial institutions
Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions on-prem and cloud
Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
Proven track record of architecting modern data integration frameworks, data modeling, ETL/ELT workflows, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns
Proven expertise in core AWS services (S3, EFS, EC2, EBS, IAM, ECS, Lambda)
Proven track record leading migration of data platforms to new data centers and/or AWS
Proven expertise to evaluate, prototype, and onboard cloud data platforms
Proven expertise in database platforms (SQL Server/Always On, ORACLE/RAC, PostgreSQL), AWS RDS, Dynamo DB
Proven expertise in cloud data services such as OLTP, ODS, data lake and analytics platforms
Proven expertise in data warehousing, big data and analytics platforms (RedShift, EMR, Dataiku, Tableau, Presto)
Proven track record developing, communicating and executing multi-year technology strategy and roadmaps
Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes
Agile mindset; Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery
Extensive experience utilizing management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage data platforms at scale
Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, security, privacy and risk safeguards required of a global financial institution
Preferred
AWS LZ, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RedShift, RDS, Snowflake, ECS, EKS, RDS, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Jira, Terraform
CI/CD (GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban
Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence
Benefits
401K matching
Health benefits
Employee stock options
Paid time off
Volunteer time off
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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