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LPL Financial is seeking an experienced technology leader to drive innovation and modernization across our Trading Technology organization. As Vice President, Development Manager, you will lead engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and supporting cloud-native and enterprise trading platforms that are critical to the advisor and client experience.

This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy, drive cloud transformation initiatives, advance engineering best practices, and partner closely with business and technology leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions. If you are passionate about cloud technologies, financial services platforms, and leading teams through complex transformation initiatives, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact.

Job Overview

The Vice President, Development Manager is responsible for providing engineering leadership across multiple software development teams supporting Trading Technology platforms. This role oversees technology strategy, cloud modernization efforts, engineering delivery, platform reliability, and organizational development. The VP partners with Architecture, Product, Data, Business, and Infrastructure teams to design and implement scalable cloud-based solutions while promoting engineering excellence and operational stability across critical trading systems.

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.

What Are We Looking For?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of leadership experience overseeing software engineering teams, technology delivery, and engineering best practices.

• 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, or supporting cloud-based solutions utilizing AWS services and modern cloud architecture principles.

• 5+ years of experience 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.

Core Competencies

• Technology leadership and engineering team development.

• Cloud architecture and modernization strategy.

• Strategic problem solving and analytical decision-making.

• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

• DevOps, SDLC, and software delivery governance.

• Communication and organizational leadership.

• Platform reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence.

Preferences

• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, EFS, and EBS.

• Experience with Kafka, enterprise messaging platforms, event-streaming technologies, or distributed integration architectures.

• Experience with trading platforms, brokerage operations, advisor technology, or capital markets systems.

• Experience leading cloud migration, platform modernization, and transformation initiatives.

• Experience building self-service engineering platforms, automation frameworks, or developer enablement capabilities.