VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation Leader

Overview

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.

Job Overview: The VPII, Cloud Engineering & Automation will lead an engineering organization responsible for enterprise cloud platform engineering and infrastructure automation. As a senior leader in I&O organization, you will develop and execute overall platform engineering strategy that enables cloud native designs and accelerates cloud adoption to meet overall business objectives.

• Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, reliable, automated cloud platform that enables self-service and frictionless delivery of cloud services at scale
• Lead research, design, architecture and development of enterprise services on AWS Landing zone platform utilizing AWS Well-Architected framework and IaC principles to build secure/resilient/efficient infrastructure
• Collaborate across IT to develop enterprise automation strategy and a framework to drive “automate everything” approach for platform deployment and configuration management
• Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities that allow for rapid deployment of cloud application and services
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year automation strategy to simplify delivery model, reduce hand-offs and drive transformational change
• Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support modern development architecture supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
• Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
• Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery
• Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness

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:

• 10+ years of software engineering leadership focused on scalable cloud infrastructure and platform development on AWS.
• Leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institutions.
• Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting / developing / transforming cloud platforms and services. (migrations & native implementations)
• Proven experience with AWS Landing Zone and Account Vending Machine framework to build robust catalog of services that accelerate overall time to market
• Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
• Proven experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/Dev Ops/SRE principles to deliver…