AVP Tech Lead Developer, Trading

Overview

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

We are looking for an inspired innovative AVP Tech Lead for our cloud transformation journey, with background in development of high throughput mission critical business applications, leveraging AWS technologies with Angular, .Net, SQL Server and Postgre

SQL. The individual will need to be well versed in financial, trading and advisory technologies. As a trusted technology leader, you will be working cross-functional teams to ensure development, deliver quality and meet deadlines. This is a Techno functional hands-on, technical lead role in the trading organization that will design, architect and develop cloud-native and on-prem services to support LPL’s overall cloud strategy and transformation.

The candidate will serve as a solution expert working independently, responsible for development and delivery of critical trading applications meeting business goals. Will join and lead a high velocity, multi-functional development team focused on large scale multi-year programs. The role will require flexible thinking as the team works to integrate existing business and technology concepts with innovative design to deliver a practical and scalable platform.

• Lead a tech team to design, develop, test and implement technical solutions based on business requirements and strategic direction utilizing AWS cloud native technologies (EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, RDS, R53, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS).
• Deep understanding and seasoned on cloud migration strategies with AWS and end-to-end SDLC.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale and modernize existing trading platforms.
• Work collaboratively with quality assurance engineering teams, Dev Ops and PMO to ensure all SDLC processes and Agile best practices are followed.
• Code and implement guardrails to enable self-service and frictionless delivery allowing teams to build and own end-to-end applications and services in the cloud.
• Formulating workable solutions to complex challenges, logically deliberating on courses of action by examining and challenging assumptions, discerning hidden value, objectively evaluating evidence, and assessing conclusions.
• Measure success by say/do, velocity, defect remediation, and clear value to the trading platforms.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design and implementation of industry best practices adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.
• Provide production support, maintain, troubleshoot, optimize and enhance trading platforms/applications.
• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability ensuring zero Advisor experience disruption.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in owning and driving full stack applications as hands on Engineering Tech Lead - guiding, solutioning, delivering and documenting team’s development efforts towards successful project delivery and application support.
• 6+ years of hands on designing/deploying/migrating on-prem windows services, .Net apps and databases to AWS.
• 6+ years of hands on experience with Kafka and event driven architectures/patterns.
• A master of .NET Framework, C#, .Net Core, SQL Server and NOSQL DBs (Postgre
  
  SQL preferable).
• Extensive experience with Angular and other SPA related UI code frameworks.

• Experience with owning and production support of mission critical applications.
• Ability to interface effectively with senior SVP/EVP level executives and business stake holders.
• Capable of effectively planning, prioritizing and executing tasks utilizing resources and tools.
• Experience working with offshore teams and…