AVP, Cloud Delivery Architect

Overview

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Job Overview:
Seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, to act as a subject matter expert and lead the design of reliable, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure solutions. This individual must be able to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, identify requirements, and facilitate implementation while following change control and release processes.

• Collaborate with customers/project teams to understand business requirements and capture technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design.
• Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform.
• Be a subject matter expert in AWS security: identity access management, users, roles, policies, permissions, etc.
• Provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services, focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc.
• Define and develop new cloud reference architectures.
• Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams, and engineering groups.
• Contribute to policies, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with project team members as part of an agile, well-formed team.
• Utilize Jira consistently to track work and provide project status and updates.
• Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments.
• Perform capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments.
• Recommend changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance.
• Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics.
• Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward.

We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture design.
• 7+ years hands-on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications.
• 7+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation.
• 7+ years of experience developing/documenting build specifications using Excel.
• 7+ years designing and developing using common AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Streaming (Kafka), Messaging (SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis, Ignite, Redshift, Elasticache), No-SQL and API Gateway).
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform.
• Experience utilizing AWS AMIs with Amazon Linux and Windows Server.
• Experience connecting On-Prem Active Directory with AWS services.
• Experience with AWS Network protocols and diagnosing connection-related issues;
  Firewalls rule management, port translation, QoS, and network protocol routing.
• Bachelor’s Degree. Certifications are a plus (AWS Solutions Architect).
• Network security best practices and implementation across diverse technologies and hardware infrastructure.
• Technical project management experience is a plus.

Pay Range: $ - $. Actual base salary varies based on factors including relevant skill, prior experience, education, internal peer salaries, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. LPL Total Rewards package is competitive and includes benefits such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. The firm supports over 32,000 financial advisors and wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets for about 8 million Americans. For more information, visit

Principals only. EOE. LPL will communicate with applicants from an  email address and will not conduct interviews online or in chatrooms. If you have questions about the application process, contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at .