Lead Distinguished Architect, Investor Experience Technology

LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. LPL Financial is one of the nation's leading financial services companies and a publicly traded company under ticker symbol LPLA. LPL is a fast-growing, fortune 500 company with 7000+ employees. We support over 50,000 financial professionals-including over 20,000 independent advisor teams, more than 800 financial institutions, and over 4,000 institutional clearing and technology subscribers managing over USD 1.2 trillion in assets.

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.

Why Investor Experience Technology?

Investors, the end-client of financial advisors, are demanding personalized experiences tailored to their needs, lifestyle, and financial goals. Investors expect seamless and user-friendly access to tools and information across devices and through their financial advisors. The Investor Experience technology team is critical to deliver this vision, and we will do this by empowering our workforce to align with our strategy and making substantial investments in technology modernization. You will be part of a highly motivated engineering team that's leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver world-class products and services to end investors, driving positive investor engagement and, ultimately, success for our advisor clients.

Job Overview

This Lead Distinguished Architect will work directly with the CIO of Investor Experience and their leadership team and drive definition of the target-state architecture across several technology domains that develop and maintain our investor-facing platforms and experiences. This role will also be a key contributor to driving the broader enterprise architecture strategy across the organization.

If pursuit of excellence is your calling then this role will provide a springboard in your career for (a) learning breadth and depth of wealth management domain (b) leveraging public cloud, API-first, domain driven design, and data mesh architecture and design principles towards delivering best-in-class technology products, and (c) unique experiences interacting directly with end investors and their advisors as well as the satisfaction of your work product being in the hands of customers.

Responsibilities:

• Must be a highly technical, forward looking, and innovative leader who possesses a solid foundation in software engineering.

• Will work closely with other technology, business, and product leaders to ensure an architectural framework is in place to support the LPL Investor Experience Technology's mission, strategy, and growth.

• Experience working in a highly technical environment utilizing leading edge tools to build architectural blueprints and frameworks encompassing legacy systems/platforms as well as emerging compute platforms.

• This leader will define the architectural blueprints and best practices for mission critical product portfolios and be responsible for leading continuous evolution of the supporting technology platform, including strategic technology decisions, architectural upgrades, and potential integrations.

• Will be a key leader in the broader Enterprise Architecture organization that directs the overall technology strategy for the enterprise.

• The Architect will contribute to evolving the vision, defining strategies to achieve the vision, and standards and best practices.

What are we looking for?

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 can execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field

• 8 + years' experience developing enterprise-class technology and solutions architectures, inclusive of service-oriented or microservices architectures, event-driven architecture, data platforms, and user experience architectures.

• 5 + years of experience in design and implementation of a modern data architecture (e.g., data mesh) is expected.

• Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems.

• Must have an executive presence and ability to communicate & engage effectively with senior technology leadership.

Technical Competencies:

• Experience designing and implementing strategic roadmaps along with the governance mechanisms to achieve them.

• Strong experience developing architecture blueprints, systems diagrams, data models, process flows, data flows, and other key architecture deliverables following Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles and practices.

• Demonstrated experience with a major enterprise transformation from monolithic to microservices.

• Experience with transformation to cloud architecture is mandatory and specific experience with AWS is a plus.

• Knowledge of API management solutions (e.g., Apigee, Kong HQ, WSO2, AWS Gateway) and experience transforming to an API-first strategy is desirable.

Preferences:

• Financial-industry experience, particularly in wealth management, securities, and trading

• AWS cloud architecture experience. AWS Solution Architect certification is a plus Snowflake experience

Pay Range:

$172,160-$258,240/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!

Why LPL?

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.

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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.