LPL Financial · 8 hours ago
VP, Development Manager - Trading
Fort Mill/Charlotte
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$155K/yr - $259K/yr
5+ years expLPL Financial is a leading wealth management firm in the U.S. seeking a Vice President of Development Manager to oversee software engineering talent across multiple development teams. The role involves ensuring high-quality solutions in financial, trading, and advisory technologies while leading the design and development of cloud-native services supporting LPL’s cloud strategy.
FinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Lead research, design, architecture, and development of enterprise services on AWS, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway
Build collaborative relationships with architecture, data, product, and business teams to scale platforms, improve resiliency, and modernize systems
Implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery for teams building end-to-end applications in the cloud
Develop solutions for complex challenges through logical analysis and objective evaluation of evidence and assumptions
Measure success through delivery velocity, defect remediation, and value creation for trading platforms
Provide technical leadership and ensure adherence to modernization practices, cloud standards, SDLC, and release management processes
Influence cross-functional teams to adopt best practices and drive process improvements
Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance trading platform applications
Ensure compliance with service level agreements and contingency plans for system and application availability
Qualification
Required
Minimum 5 years of experience in technology leadership roles involving software development, engineering best practices, product development, and delivery
At least 3 years of experience designing and deploying infrastructure using AWS services, including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, EFS, EBS, Route53, and API Gateway
5+ years of experience with messaging and streaming technologies (EMS, MQ, Kafka) and programming languages such as C#, Java, or Python
7+ years of experience building event-driven, high-availability, low-latency platforms for trading systems
7+ years of experience in capital markets with a working knowledge of financial, trading, and advisory platforms
Preferred
Experience with cloud migration strategies and modernization initiatives
Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments
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
Recent News
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