Software Developer Contract Jobs in Lancaster, SC

Job Summary:
LPL Financial is a leading wealth management firm in the U.S. seeking a Senior Engineer for their Agent Integration & Tool Platform. The role focuses on designing and operating an enterprise platform for secure integration between AI agents and various systems while establishing standards and frameworks for development teams.
Responsibilities:
• Design and implement enterprise capabilities that enable AI agents to securely interact with enterprise systems, APIs, applications, and services.
• Establish reusable integration patterns that accelerate adoption while reducing implementation complexity for development teams.
• Define enterprise standards for agent interoperability and service integration.
• Build and operate centralized capabilities for tool registration, discovery, metadata management, and lifecycle governance.
• Establish standards for tool contracts, schemas, versioning, ownership, and operational support.
• Develop mechanisms that enable agents and applications to discover and consume approved enterprise capabilities.
• Define patterns and standards for communication and collaboration between autonomous and semi-autonomous systems.
• Design mechanisms for agent capability discovery, delegation, orchestration, and coordination.
• Establish governance and observability frameworks for multi-agent environments.
• Implement controls supporting authentication, authorization, entitlement management, and policy enforcement.
• Partner with Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure integrations comply with enterprise standards.
• Ensure all platform capabilities support auditability, traceability, and regulatory requirements.
• Create SDKs, templates, onboarding frameworks, and reference implementations that simplify adoption.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for tool integration and agent development.
• Improve developer productivity through automation, self-service capabilities, and platform abstractions.
• Build capabilities supporting monitoring, tracing, usage analytics, performance management, and operational governance.
• Establish metrics for tool adoption, reliability, utilization, and business impact.
• Ensure platform resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead architecture reviews and engineering design decisions.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Drive engineering excellence through best practices, reusable patterns, and platform modernization initiatives.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and building enterprise integration platforms, API platforms, or distributed systems.
• Knowledge of API architecture, service contracts, event-driven systems, and platform engineering principles.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and governance controls in enterprise environments.
• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, shared services, or integration frameworks.
Preferred:
• Experience with agent frameworks, agent orchestration, or autonomous systems
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), tool registries, service catalogs, or capability management platforms.
• Experience with enterprise API management, service mesh, or integration platforms.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning platforms and their integration requirements.
• Experience operating in highly regulated environments.
Company:
LPL Financial provides investment solutions and tools for independent financial advisors. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.