AVP Tech, Software Development

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion At LPL

As an AVP Tech Lead in LPL’s Trading & Advisory organization, you will modernize mission‑critical systems that power advisors and clients daily. This hands‑on, techno‑functional leadership role focuses on innovation, scale, and resiliency while designing, architecting, and developing cloud‑native and on‑premise trading services using AWS, .NET, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

• Lead and mentor a high‑performing, cross‑functional engineering team delivering large‑scale, multi‑year trading initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, and implement scalable solutions using AWS cloud‑native services (EC2, S3, ECS/EKS, ELB, RDS, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway).
• Drive cloud migration strategies, modernizing on‑prem Windows services and .NET applications to AWS while ensuring resiliency, security, and performance.
• Partner with architecture, product, data, QA, Dev Ops, and PMO teams to ensure adherence to SDLC, Agile best practices, and release management standards.
• Build guardrails and self‑service capabilities that enable teams to own and operate end‑to‑end cloud applications.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across full‑stack development (.NET, Angular, databases, event‑driven architectures).
• Ensure production stability by providing support, troubleshooting, optimization, and continuous improvement of trading platforms.
• Measure delivery success through velocity, quality metrics, defect remediation, and demonstrable business value.
• Ensure SLAs, resiliency, and contingency plans are met to deliver a seamless advisor and client experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in capital markets with strong knowledge of trading intraday/EOD flows and advisory platforms.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience leading full‑stack application delivery as an Engineering Tech Lead.
• 6+ years of experience designing, migrating, and operating .NET applications and databases on AWS.
• Strong expertise in event‑driven architectures (Kafka), .NET/C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, No
  
  SQL, and Angular.
• Ownership of mission‑critical, high‑availability production systems.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication with both technical teams and senior SVP/EVP stakeholders.
• Agile delivery leadership and estimation discipline.
• Experience collaborating with offshore and global delivery teams.

• Deep knowledge of trading and order execution workflows.
• Proven success with on‑prem to cloud transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.

Pay Range: $ - $

Benefits: 401(k) matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

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