Vice President Tech Lead - Software Development

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Tech Lead who is passionate about delivering exceptional client experiences and building high-performing technology solutions. This individual contributor role will provide hands-on technical leadership across application design, development, cloud solutions, and production reliability. The Tech Lead will partner across Product, Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, and Business teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions while supporting continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and actively participate in the design and development of high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, with a focus on availability and performance using C#, AngularJS, jQuery, and Microsoft SQL Server 2022.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to translate business challenges into technical solutions and support sprint planning and product demonstrations.
• Conduct technical assessments of risks and issues and document recommendations to support decision-making.
• Coordinate solution design with Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, and Business teams to support prioritized business outcomes and speed to market.
• Coach and mentor engineers during development and production implementation, including the creation and maintenance of technical documentation aligned with SDLC guidelines.
• Facilitate regular communication among technical and non-technical stakeholders to support products, maintain alignment, and communicate technical decisions and impacts.

What Are We Looking For?

We’re looking for people who are motivated to pursue greatness and act with integrity in how they design, build, and support technology solutions. You should be driven to help our clients succeed, collaborate across disciplines to win together, and contribute to an environment where teams create and share joy while continuously improving how work gets done.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in full-stack application development utilizing .NET/Java, Angular/JavaScript, REST APIs, and relational databases, including experience with test-driven development (TDD).
• 10+ years of experience with enterprise software development processes, including documenting software design through sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and other visual aids and presenting technical designs in architecture board reviews.
• 10+ years of experience developing microservices and implementing API-first design principles, with experience applying cloud patterns for scalability and performance.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS technologies, including hands-on development experience with AWS Lambda and Step Functions.
• 2+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, including system monitoring, reliability, performance, and incident management.

Core Competencies:

• Organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, including collaboration across technical and non-technical teams and stakeholders.
• Facilitation and change management skills, including experience supporting decision-making, managing change, and aligning technical solutions with business objectives.

Preferences:

• BS or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience using SwaggerHub for API design and documentation.
• Knowledge of cloud transformation strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Understanding of DevSecOps methodologies and practices.
• Experience with source control systems, build processes, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.
• Experience guiding, coaching, and developing engineers and supporting knowledge sharing across teams.

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Pay Range:

$140,500.00 - $234,100.00Actual 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) 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. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

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.

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