AVP TECH ,Software Development

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion

At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees.

If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

The Data Distribution and Data Sharing team is evolving its platform into a best-in-class data product, emphasizing scalable architecture, high reliability, and automated subscription and distribution capabilities built on strategic cloud data sources. We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive these initiatives and lead a group of Developers and Quality Engineers in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

This role combines technical leadership, hands-on development, and team leadership responsibilities, with a primary focus on modern data platform engineering and application integration.

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and end-to-end design of the Data Distribution and Data Sharing team, guiding its data product development and evolution.

• Establish and maintain SLAs/SLOs for data products serving external customers, with clear accountability for uptime, latency, and data quality.

• Continuously evolve and optimize data sourcing strategies to support fast-moving, ever-changing data structures, ensuring the platform consistently leverages the most accurate and strategic sources of truth.

Delivery & Execution

• Own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through production deployment.

• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define scope, priorities, and overall product direction.

• Develop delivery estimates for new features and initiatives, owning and clearly communicating timelines, risks, and progress to executive leadership.

• Lead release planning, change management, and production deployment activities.

• Ensure high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

• Drive AI-enabled delivery practices and mentor the team in leveraging tools such as CursorAI and Claude to improve development velocity, code quality, and engineering effectiveness.

Team Leadership

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a distributed team of onshore and offshore engineers and QA resources.

• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.

• Manage team capacity, resource allocation, and delivery efficiency.

Platform & Data Engineering

• Build and optimize data pipelines and workflows using Snowflake, DBT, and AWS services (S3, Lambda, Glue, Airflow).

• Support integration between data platforms and application layers (.NET, Angular).

• Design, build and maintain Extract Transform & Load (ETL) processes and design data models.

• Create and maintain the technical components of modern, machine-readable data contracts for downstream consumers, ensuring consistency, reliability, and scalability across the data platform.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology.

• 5+ years of experience with cloud and data technologies (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, DBT, AWS).

• 5+ years of ETL experience with Informatica

• 5+ years experience in SQL server procedures, views, indexes and performance tuning

Core Competencies

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business terms.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Strong organizational and planning skills with a process-oriented mindset.

• Adaptability in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

• Commitment to quality, performance, and execution excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub, Octopus, or similar.

• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies.

• Experience in the FinTech industry.

 

Pay Range:

$140,500.00 - $234,100.00

 

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

 

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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