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About the Role

Redefine how enterprise software and digital products are created in an AI-accelerated world. As Head of Development Practices and AI Product Development Lifecycle, you will design the operating model, platforms, guardrails, and team structures that enable smaller, higher-leverage teams to deliver faster while strengthening quality, resilience, security, and accountability.

Responsibilities

Define and own the target-state AI-native PDLC, including its vision, principles, operating model, stage gates, decision rights, roles, success measures, and multi-year transformation roadmap.
Design the target-state team model for AI-augmented product development, including team composition, agent roles, human-agent collaboration patterns, escalation paths, pilot sequencing, scaling criteria, and migration from current delivery structures.
Establish enterprise standards for agentic development, including agent taxonomy, workflow orchestration, prompt and context management, tool integration, secure data handling, auditability, and human oversight requirements.
Build the PDLC platform and toolchain strategy with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and AI/ML teams across IDE integrations, CI/CD, test automation, observability, knowledge systems, and agent orchestration platforms.
Define and govern outcome-based measures for cycle time, release frequency, quality, defect rates, agent utilization and effectiveness, developer experience, cost-to-deliver, technical debt, operational resilience, and business value.
Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to align PDLC adoption with product strategy, portfolio priorities, modernization objectives, and delivery commitments.
Embed controls with Enterprise Risk, Information Security, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, and Model Risk Management, ensuring responsible AI use and regulatory readiness throughout the development value stream.
Lead organizational transformation and workforce evolution, including role redesign, skills development, hiring strategy, change leadership, performance expectations, coaching, and adoption support for AI-augmented teams.
Establish governance and executive reporting for PDLC maturity, adoption, exceptions, risks, investment needs, and realized value; advise senior leadership on technology strategy, organizational design, and competitive implications.
Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing leadership team responsible for PDLC strategy, platform enablement, transformation delivery, engineering excellence, and developer experience.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
15 or more years of progressive leadership experience spanning software engineering, product development, platform engineering, or enterprise technology transformation in large, complex organizations.
Proven success leading enterprise-scale delivery transformation, including modern PDLC/SDLC design, DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, shift-left quality, operating-model redesign, or product-led delivery.
Demonstrated production experience with AI-assisted and agentic development, including large language model coding assistants, agent frameworks, workflow automation, retrieval-augmented generation or knowledge systems, and human oversight.
Experience embedding security, privacy, compliance, risk, and audit controls into technology delivery within a regulated or similarly control-intensive environment.

Skills

Executive leadership
Enterprise influence
Strategic planning
Technology investment prioritization
End-to-end PDLC design
DevOps
Platform engineering
Developer experience
Quality engineering
Continuous delivery
AI-native software development
Agent orchestration
Prompt and context engineering
Automation
Responsible AI governance
Team topology
Operating-model design
Workforce transformation
Change leadership
Executive communication
Cross-functional partnership
Engineering metrics
Outcome-based accountability

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

15+ years of progressive leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$240,000.00 - $290,000.00

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. 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.

Equal Opportunity

Principals only. EOE.