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About the Role

The Principal M&A Architect is responsible for leading, analyzing, and designing the Enterprise Data Architecture (EDA) for the Merger and acquisition (M&A) group, supporting company growth projections and digital experiences vision.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology due diligence, integration strategy, target-state architecture, and business transformation initiatives associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships.
• Align business objectives, technology platforms, data assets, and operating models to accelerate value realization and reduce integration risk.
• Lead end-to-end technology assessments for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, evaluating application portfolios, infrastructure, data platforms, cybersecurity posture, technical debt, and integration complexity.
• Define target-state architecture, integration roadmaps, and transition strategies for seamless consolidation of business capabilities, applications, data, and technology platforms.
• Direct cross-functional architecture teams across business, application, data, cloud, security, and infrastructure domains.
• Lead application portfolio assessments, capability mapping, and platform consolidation efforts.
• Design strategies for customer, financial, operational, and regulatory data integration while harmonizing business processes.
• Evaluate technology, operational, cybersecurity, and regulatory risks during transaction lifecycles and establish governance frameworks.
• Partner with C-suite executives, business leaders, product organizations, and technology teams to align integration priorities and roadmaps.
• Drive post-acquisition modernization initiatives, including cloud migration, platform standardization, API enablement, data transformation, and adoption of strategic enterprise capabilities.
• Define future-state organizational, process, and technology operating models to enable scalable growth and improve customer experience.
• Manage large-scale integration programs and multi-year transformation roadmaps, ensuring successful delivery of critical milestones and effective risk management.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on design and implementation experience in enterprise architecture landscape.
• 5+ years experience migrating legacy platforms to modern data platforms.
• 5+ years of experience in designing and building SQL, no-SQL, big data, GraphDB, APIs, Kafka, and streaming solutions.
• 3+ years of experience in application development, middleware, database management or operations, security, integration.
• Proficiency in defining current and future state Data Architecture models.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud data platforms AWS (Primary) and Azure (Secondary).
• At least one cloud certification is required.
• Experience and expertise in designing, implementing or maintaining Master Data Management solutions, Data Marketplace solutions, Data Science Platforms and Productizing Data, Enterprise Analytics solutions.
• Experience/exposure with one or more Neural Networks, machine learning, deep learning and NLP tools and frameworks.
• Experience migrating monolith on-prem applications to the cloud using Refactoring, Rearchitecting and Re-platforming approaches, including 12-factor.
• At least one industry-recognized tool/framework/certification is required.
• Experience in DevOps tools, automated deployments and containerization.
• Excellent communication skills that translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Consult with customers to solve business problems by adapting current technology and/or capitalizing on emerging technology for competitive advantage.
• Conduct demonstrations and presentations to executive management of prototypes and proof-of-concepts.
• Understanding of agile methods (SAFe) and processes, and capability of supporting agile product teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Technology Due Diligence
• Integration Strategy
• Target-State Architecture
• Business Transformation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Divestitures
• Strategic Partnerships
• Data Architecture
• Cloud Migration
• Platform Standardization
• API Enablement
• Data Transformation
• DevOps
• Automated Deployments
• Containerization
• Agile Methods (SAFe)
• SQL
• NoSQL
• Big Data
• GraphDB
• Kafka
• Streaming Solutions
• AWS
• Azure
• Master Data Management
• Data Marketplace
• Data Science Platforms
• Enterprise Analytics
• Neural Networks
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• NLP
• Refactoring
• Rearchitecting
• Re-platforming
• 12-factor

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Principal
• Senior

Education Level

• Cloud Certification

Salary/Compensations

• $163,667.00 - $272,847.00

Benefits

• 401K matching
• Health benefits
• Employee stock options
• Paid time off
• Volunteer time off

About the Company

• 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, 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.
• 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.
• LPL Financial is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer.
• Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals.
• Financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone.
• LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best – create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities.
• Thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets.
• As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2019, based on total revenue.

Equal Opportunity

• Principals only.
• EOE.