AVP, Cloud Delivery Architect

Job Overview

Seeking an AVP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will be a subject‑matter expert in AWS and lead the design of reliable, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure solutions. The role requires working in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment, identifying requirements and facilitating implementation while following change control and release processes.

• Collaborate with customers and project teams to understand business requirements and produce an infrastructure design
• Perform system analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert in AWS security, identity and access management, and related services
• Provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services such as Lambda, Glue, RDS, Step Functions, and others
• 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 within an agile environment
• Use Jira consistently to track work and provide project status updates
• Provide guidance on infrastructure deployments
• Perform capacity and availability modeling for various platforms and environments
• Recommend changes and enhancements that improve system availability, reliability, and performance
• Promote automation and efficiency opportunities
• Help create and maintain delivery metrics
• Execute multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward

Strong collaborators who deliver world‑class client experience, thrive in a fast‑paced environment, are client‑focused, team‑oriented, and encourage creativity and continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of cloud architecture design experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on AWS subject‑matter expertise deploying applications
• 5+ years developing architecture diagrams and documentation
• 5+ years documenting build specifications using Excel
• 5+ years designing and developing with common AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, Kafka, SQS, Redis, Redshift, API Gateway, etc.)

• Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform
• Experience with AWS AMIs on Amazon Linux and Windows Server
• On‑prem Active Directory integration with AWS services
• Knowledge of AWS network protocols and troubleshooting connection issues
• Firewall rule management and network routing

• Bachelor’s Degree
• AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred
• Experience with network security best practices across diverse technologies
• SSL certificate management
• Technical project management experience

$ – $. Actual base salary varies based on skill, experience, education, and location.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE.