AVP Tech, Software Development - Cloud Lead

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We are looking to hire a AVP Cloud Lead in the Technology organization. Under the direction of the Application Development Manager, this position will help shape business requirements and technology directions to support Product Roadmaps and LPL vision. The role will involve collaboration with business partners, architects, quality assurance, release management, and the change control board to plan, design, develop and implement solutions for these needs.

The candidate should be capable of designing and developing timely, high‑quality products, with state‑of‑the‑art interfaces to best serve these needs, and have the drive to ensure that the vision and success criteria are met within budget and schedule constraints.

• Design and develop scalable enterprise‑class applications with expertise in full stack development in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment. To architect, build, deploy and support best‑in‑class software solutions for internal and external customers.
• Participate in all phases of the software engineering life cycle.
• Design solutions that adhere to our architectural principles and enterprise standards.
• Leverage technical expertise and latest tech stack to implement software development best practices. Implement application resiliency, scalability and performance design.
• Develop and implement highly scalable core platform components and provide and support to the clients, applications and services.
• Provide technical troubleshooting and advanced debugging support.
• Evaluate new design proposals, investigate and recommend solutions and process improvements that deliver applications with high scalability and performance.
• Work with Product Owners and Product Managers to translate business problem statements into technical solutions, then help plan sprints that deliver quality demonstrations. Collaborate across business units and product teams to build product vision and deliver business value.
• Assist with conceptual design and rough order of magnitude (ROM) level of effort estimation.
• Coordinate solution design with leaders from architecture, data, infrastructure, and business to optimize speed to market and achieve prioritized business outcomes.
• Assist in technical assessment of risks and issues, and document recommendations.
• Ensure the necessary platform technical documentation is maintained in an appropriate manner.

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.

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with product development and architecture of software, applications and services.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with cloud or hybrid cloud development.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with full stack application development using Python, relational database like Oracle with SQL/PLSQL, Postgres DB.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on experience with AWS is required with preferred practice in VPC, S3, AWS CLI, IAM, EC2, Lambda, Glue jobs, Step Functions, SNS/SQS, RDS, Aurora, Dynamo
  
  DB, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, Fargate and serverless computing.
• Additional technology stack experience with Angular, .Net Core 6, C#, Angular 8+, REST API, Confluent Kafka will be a plus.

• Experience with ETL tools;
  CoPilot AI is preferred.
• Experience with data structure design, data mapping and data modeling (LDM/PDM) is preferred.
• ETL tools experience to work vendor data feeds and data from operational systems.
• Knowledge of microservices design patterns and development.
• Experience developing solutions for API, message and event streaming…