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LPL Financial is looking to modernize its trading platforms to improve stability, handle scale, and optimize the advisor or investor experience. The Head of Centrally Managed Technology will oversee software engineering talent across multiple development teams, acting as a trusted technology partner to drive outcomes, build partnerships, and ensure transparency in execution and operational KPIs.

Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in technology leadership roles that span across Technology development, Engineering best practices, product development, and delivery leadership roles preferably within a financial service, or related FinTech firms.
• Minimum of 10 years of developing, cultivating, and leading strong, high-performing teams in an agile environment.
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience in capital markets with a strong understanding of trading, wealth management, and financial industry
• Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high-scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through technical design, and implementation of best practices, adhering to LPL’s modernization practices, Cloud practices, SDLC and release management processes.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance Trading Platform applications.
• Ensure service level agreements and contingency activities are covered related to system/application availability.
• Partnering with solution architecture to establish patterns that progress the teams towards scalable platforms.
• Recruit and coach engineers to ensure they can successfully deliver technology solutions including standards, pre-production environments, and development tools.
• Transformational leadership experience modernizing trading platforms to improve stability, handle scale, and optimize the Advisor or Investor experience with complex trading platforms.
• Lead and understand large data sets and ability to drive solutions around the data and trading technologies

Other

• The individual will be well-versed in financial, trading, and advisory technologies.
• As a trusted technology partner, you will drive the outcomes, build partnerships, and help provide transparency on the execution and operational KPIs.
• This will include working cross-functionally to ensure the development teams deliver quality that is well-defined and understood by the teams.
• In addition, this position partners with other Agile team leaders to share learning, mitigate technical dependencies, plan for capacity needs, and establish practice consistency between Agile teams.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including architecture, data, product, and business partners, and strategies to scale, resilient and modernize platforms.