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Vice President, Cloud Lead

LPL Financial is seeking a Vice President, Cloud Lead to help shape the future of our cloud technology ecosystem and drive the development of scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise platforms. This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy, guide cloud transformation initiatives, and work closely with business and technology partners to deliver innovative solutions that support LPL's strategic objectives.

As a key technology leader, you will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Release Management, and Infrastructure teams to design and implement cloud-native and hybrid-cloud solutions. This role is ideal for someone passionate about modern software engineering, cloud architecture, platform scalability, and engineering excellence.

The Vice President, Cloud Lead is responsible for designing, developing, and supporting enterprise applications and platform services within cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. This role provides technical leadership across solution architecture, cloud engineering, application development, platform modernization, and software delivery. The position partners with business and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, technology roadmaps, and business goals while maintaining scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the design and development of scalable enterprise applications and platform services within cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Partnering with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Release Management, and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions aligned with strategic objectives.
• Participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, support, and ongoing enhancement.
• Designing solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and cloud engineering best practices.
• Developing and supporting highly scalable platform components, APIs, applications, and services that serve enterprise business needs.
• Providing advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and technical support for complex application and platform issues.
• Evaluating emerging technologies and recommending architecture, process, and platform improvements to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Contributing to solution planning, technical estimates, and roadmap development activities.
• Maintaining technical documentation and ensuring solutions are properly documented throughout their lifecycle.
• Mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical guidance, and adoption of best practices.

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 include:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, application architecture, and enterprise technology delivery.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing cloud or hybrid-cloud solutions.
• 5+ years of experience with full-stack application development utilizing technologies such as C#, Angular (or similar frameworks), and relational databases.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting solutions on AWS cloud platforms.

Core competencies include:

• Expertise in cloud architecture and cloud-native application development.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and modern application design patterns.
• Understanding of Dev Sec Ops  methodologies, software delivery practices, and automation frameworks.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive organizational change.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design, test-driven development, and software quality practices.

Preferences include:

• Cloud engineering or cloud architecture certifications.
• Experience with AWS technologies including ECS, EKS, Fargate, VPC, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, EC2, Lambda, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with source control systems, CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience developing API-driven, messaging, or event-streaming solutions utilizing technologies such as Apache Kafka or Stream Sets.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.

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