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About the Role

LPL Financial is seeking a visionary technology leader to drive the modernization and strategic evolution of critical Wealth Management and Brokerage platforms supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending functions. As Vice President, Lead Software Engineer, you will lead large-scale transformation initiatives, influence enterprise technology strategy, and oversee the delivery of innovative solutions across a complex and evolving technology landscape. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-performing engineering organization, champion AI-assisted software development practices, and shape the future of cloud-native, event-driven platforms that support key business operations. You'll collaborate with executive leaders, business partners, architects, and engineering teams to drive technology innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending platforms.
Lead modernization initiatives transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native, API-first, service-oriented, and event-driven architectures.
Establish architecture and engineering standards focused on scalability, resiliency, security, observability, and operational excellence.
Drive adoption of modern technologies including .NET, Angular, AWS, Kafka, microservices, enterprise integration patterns, and data platforms.
Champion AI-assisted software engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, automation, and production support.
Lead delivery of enterprise applications, advisor-facing solutions, APIs, cloud platforms, and strategic integrations.
Partner with senior business leaders, product management, operations teams, architects, and external vendors to align technology investments with business objectives.
Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, vendor assessments, and modernization initiatives involving both vendor and internally developed platforms.
Establish and oversee engineering excellence practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, reliability engineering, security, and observability.
Monitor and drive engineering performance through key operational, delivery, reliability, quality, and productivity metrics.
Provide leadership, coaching, talent development, succession planning, and organizational growth across distributed engineering teams.
Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client-focused delivery.

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience, including progressive leadership responsibility within enterprise technology organizations.
Experience leading large-scale modernization, digital transformation, and enterprise technology delivery programs.
Demonstrated expertise in cloud technologies, distributed systems, API and microservices architecture, DevSecOps practices, and modern software engineering methodologies.
Experience leading large engineering organizations, cross-functional teams, and strategic technology initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and vendor partners.
Experience communicating technology strategy, delivery plans, and business outcomes to executive leadership and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Technology strategy and enterprise architecture leadership.
Organizational leadership, coaching, talent development, and succession planning.
Executive communication, stakeholder management, and strategic influence.
Enterprise software engineering, modernization, and platform transformation.
AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity enablement.
Operational excellence, risk management, and delivery governance.
Vendor partnership management and enterprise program leadership.
Corporate Actions, Class Actions, Securities Lending, Wealth Management, Brokerage Operations, Banking, or Capital Markets platforms.
AI-enabled engineering practices, generative AI solutions, or agentic development frameworks.
.NET/C#, Angular, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design principles.
DORA metrics, engineering performance measurement, and large-scale DevSecOps implementation.

Experience Level

15+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

$170,800.00 - $284,600.00

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(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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

Principals only. EOE.