Principal Solution Architect

Principal Solution Architect

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What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

The Principal Solution Architect leads, facilitates, analyzes, and designs enterprise solution architecture supporting the Account View (AV) Data Project, with a focus on cloud migration, big data, and modern web technologies. This role establishes a technology strategy and roadmap that enables the AV portfolio to support current and future business capabilities, including Generative AI (GAI) adoption. The architect drives design, engineering, reuse, and application of patterns, and creates Enabler Epics for solutions in the AV portfolio, leveraging continuous feedback and adaptive design practices.

• Lead cloud migration initiatives and architect cloud-native solutions, primarily on AWS.
• Design and develop scalable solutions across web, API, and event-driven architectures.
• Architect and maintain big data solutions, including data warehousing and data lakes (e.g., Snowflake, Document
  
  DB, S3).
• Collaborate on the adoption and integration of Generative AI (GAI) solutions.
• Ensure robust system integration using APIs, events, and cloud technologies.
• Collaborate with Lean Product Portfolio Management to provide a high-level vision of enterprise solutions and development initiatives.
• Assist Agile Program Management Office (ACDC) in identifying and designing development value streams and supporting artifacts.
• Participate in strategy for building and maintaining the architectural runway via Enabler Epics.
• Drive architectural initiatives via enabler epics and participate in their analysis.
• Influence modeling, design, and coding practices, promoting Continuous Delivery Pipeline and Dev Sec Ops  capabilities.
• Facilitate the reuse of code, components, and proven patterns.
• Synchronize disciplines across solutions, including system/data security, production infrastructure, user experience, and nonfunctional requirements (NFRs).
• Analyze enterprise business context and change requirements to guide solution decisions.
• Define principles and models to guide solution decisions for AV and enterprise.
• Assist with governance activities to ensure ESA and EA compliance.
• Document solution architecture design and analysis work in a structured fashion matching the EA framework.
• Advocate principles of business and IT strategies, EA development, and service delivery.
• Coordinate with enterprise business, information, and technology architects.

• Lead cloud migration and cloud-native architecture for AV data solutions.
• Architect big data platforms and data lakes (Snowflake, Document
  
  DB, S3).
• Design and implement modern web and API solutions (Angular, HTML, CSS, Type Script, .NET, Python, Kafka).
• Integrate event-driven architectures and support data streaming.
• Drive adoption of Generative AI solutions in alignment with AV blueprints.

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.

• 2+ years of deep expertise in AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, etc.) and cloud-native architecture. Experience with cloud migration, refactoring, rearchitecting and re-platforming.
• 4+ years hands‑on experience with big data technologies, data warehousing, and ETL (Snowflake, Document
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL).
• 8+ years of proficiency in modern web technologies (Angular, HTML, CSS, Type Script). Strong skills in API and…