What are the responsibilities and job description for the VPII, Platform Engineering - Data Center position at LPL Financial?
VPII, Platform Engineering – Data Center
Generate Interest:
Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!
LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 18,000 financial advisors, 800 institution-based investment programs and 450 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.
Job Overview:
The VP, Platform Engineering – Data Center will lead data center engineering and migration activities for critical platforms at LPL. As a senior leader in I&O organization, you will have the opportunity to help define/execute data center design, strategy, and migration roadmap to future data cloud adjacent data centers cloud providers. This role will help define next generation data center architecture / platforms and will be accountable for all build and migration activities.
Responsibilities:
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.
We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.
Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees. We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.
Want to hear from our employees on what it’s like to work at LPL? Watch this!
We take social responsibility seriously. Learn more here!
Want to see info on our benefits? Learn more here.
Pay Range:
$186,525-$310,875/year
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) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for advisors and institutions, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader in the markets we serve, serving more than 23,000 financial advisors, including advisors at approximately 1,000 institutions and at approximately 580 registered investment advisor ("RIA") firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-mediated model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial professional.
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.
Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity
At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.
Why LPL?
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.
EAC1.22.25
Generate Interest:
Are you a team player? Are you curious to learn? Are you interested in working in meaningful projects? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things differently? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you!
LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader* in the markets we serve, supporting more than 18,000 financial advisors, 800 institution-based investment programs and 450 independent RIA firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-centered model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial advisor. At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.
Job Overview:
The VP, Platform Engineering – Data Center will lead data center engineering and migration activities for critical platforms at LPL. As a senior leader in I&O organization, you will have the opportunity to help define/execute data center design, strategy, and migration roadmap to future data cloud adjacent data centers cloud providers. This role will help define next generation data center architecture / platforms and will be accountable for all build and migration activities.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for execution and delivery of cloud adjacent data centers that improve resiliency and support rapid company growth. This includes build and decommission of new and existing data center infrastructure and platforms.
- Responsible for defining and executing a robust data center migration plan ensuring data integrity, minimal downtime to applications/platforms and without negative impact to business operations
- Responsible for successful design and implementation of local and regional failover capabilities
- Responsible for development of rigorous testing and validation of migrated infrastructure, platforms and applications
- Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year data center strategy to simplify architecture, delivery model and drives transformational change.
- Establish monitoring and performance management processes to track and optimize the performance of applications and platforms to meet company SLAs
- Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs.
- Lead deployment automation and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers/hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market.
- Design/build/migrate core infrastructure platforms and services to future data centers to improve overall availability, performance and scalability.
- Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations.
- Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Infrastructure, Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy.
- Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization.
- Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness (Jira, SNOW )
- Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
- Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
- Identify and eliminate risks in the environment that threaten stability, resiliency, performance, and security
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
- 10 years of progressive leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, global financial institutions
- 5 years of experience leading migration of infrastructure and applications to new data centers and cloud
- Extensive knowledge of Datacenter infrastructure technologies and their interaction with applications they support.
- Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable platforms on-prem and cloud.
- Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation.
- Experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/DevOps principles to deliver new platforms and services
- Experience with open telemetry including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK , AWS Distro
- Experience with IT Service Management (ITIL and ITMS)
- Bachelor’s/Advance degree and/or related field experience required
- Ability to convey technical solutions to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology to drive positive business outcomes.
- Ability to shape strategic vision, transform, and lead without authority.
- Agile mindset; Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery
- Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems
- Ability to create and articulate inspiring vision for the organization
- Experience with a data driven approach to designing and implementing technology
- Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams.
- Foster a culture of excellence and ownership
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, security, privacy and risk safeguards required of a global financial institution
- Hardware (Cisco UCS, Dell, HP)
- VMware / Nutanix / Microsoft / Active Directory / RedHat Linux/AIX
- CI/CD (GitHub, Gitlab, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
- AWS LZ, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch, Direct Connect, VPN Gateway, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, Route53
- Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban; Jira for delivery and reporting
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence
At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.
We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.
Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees. We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same. This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.
Want to hear from our employees on what it’s like to work at LPL? Watch this!
We take social responsibility seriously. Learn more here!
Want to see info on our benefits? Learn more here.
Pay Range:
$186,525-$310,875/year
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) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for advisors and institutions, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader in the markets we serve, serving more than 23,000 financial advisors, including advisors at approximately 1,000 institutions and at approximately 580 registered investment advisor ("RIA") firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-mediated model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial professional.
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.
Join LPL Financial: Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity
At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.
Why LPL?
- Innovative Environment: We foster creativity and growth, providing a supportive and responsive leadership team. Learn more about our leadership team here!
- Limitless Career Potential: Your career at LPL has no limits, only amazing potential. Learn more about our careers here!
- Unified Mission: We are one team on one mission—taking care of our advisors so they can take care of their clients. Learn more about our mission and values here!
- Impactful Work: Our size is just right for you to make a real impact. Learn more here!
- Commitment to Equality: We support workplace equality and embrace diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Learn more here!
- Community Focus: We care for our communities and encourage our employees to do the same. Learn more here!
- Benefits and Total Rewards: Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here!
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.
EAC1.22.25
Salary : $186,525 - $310,875
