VPII , Architecture Manager Position Available In Lancaster, South Carolina

Are you a team player that continuously learns and enjoys solving complex problems? Do you want to work with cutting-edge technology and help transform our architecture and products? If so, LPL Financial is the place for you! LPL Financial is one of the largest independent broker-dealers and growing. The company recently eclipsed two huge milestones when it became part of the Fortune 500 for the first time in its history and crossed the one trillion dollars in assets under management threshold only a few weeks before. Extraordinary growth fueled by a compelling digital strategy lie ahead. LPL Financial is one of the nation’s leading financial services companies and a publicly traded company under ticker symbol LPLA. We support over 18,000 financial professionals—including over 14,000 independent advisors, more than 700 financial institutions, and over 4,000 institutional clearing and technology subscribers. We enable advisors to focus on their clients by reducing the complexity of running their practice and we support their business by offering enabling technology, comprehensive clearing and compliance services, practice management programs and training, and independent research. At LPL, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients. And Technology is at the center of our mission.

Job Overview:

Join the Enterprise Architecture Organization as VPII of Architecture. We are an organization that believes strongly in diversity and inclusion, strives to reflect the community of advisors and end-investors we serve, and rewards both behaviors and delivery. As the leader of Architecture, you will drive modern technology solutions across the full spectrum of LPL platforms, products, and initiatives. You will hire, lead and mentor a group of skilled solution architects that partner across LPL Technology and Product teams to define effective architectural solutions that meet or exceed the needs of the business while aligning with our target-state architecture strategy. You and your team will furthermore conceive and develop reference architecture models to simplify and accelerate solution development for the business. This role brings industry perspective to LPL Financial’s strategy development, reconciles tactical and strategic business needs, and works cross-functionally to align product initiatives to progress the enterprise roadmap. This role demands a highly technical, forward looking, and innovative leader who possesses a strong foundation in architecture and software engineering. She/He must be able to work closely with the technology, business, and product leadership teams to ensure development of architectural solutions that support the Company’s mission, strategy, and growth. In addition, this leader must have experience working in complex and highly technical enterprise environments and understand how to balance the competing pressures of functional and non-functional requirements as well as the short-term and long-term needs of the business. While focused on Solution Architecture, this new leader will contribute to shaping the overall Enterprise Architecture practice and drive continuous evolution of the technology platform, including strategic technology decisions, architectural upgrades, and potential integrations. The Leader should operate with close linkage to business and technology stakeholders to ensure priorities and pain points are aligned and addressed.

Responsibilities:

Grow a diverse team, inclusive culture, and collaborative processes that reward behaviors in addition to delivery. Lead the team to “shift-left” in the product lifecycle and develop proactive, forward-looking architecture approaches that support our product roadmaps and portfolio. Interface with key business and IT leaders for the purpose of understanding priorities and delivering modern product architecture strategies and solutions that enable the company’s vision and extraordinary growth. Serve as an expert for software tools, technology, and standards while providing strategic architectural consulting in the areas of external trends, best practices, and adherence to standards. Help to construct the company’s target architecture strategy and accompanying roadmap, and drive forward training, framework development, and technology deployment in support of the strategy. Lead the solution architecture team to research, develop, and implement innovative software solutions to enable strategic objectives. Understand, advocate, and support enterprise technology, digital, and data strategies; monitor and analyze the technology environment to detect deficiencies and recommend improvements. Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise. Lead the effective application of enterprise architecture principles through a deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, concepts and best practices. Be accountable for the definition and development of principles, guidelines, services, components, tools, standards, assets and frameworks required to support LPL Financial’s architecture. Year One Expectations Immerse yourself in the company’s business vision, strategy, and business lines to develop a deep understanding of the business and underlying technology domains. Develop relationships with business and technology leadership and teams. Establish feedback loops that enable the Solution Architecture organization’s continuous improvement. Hire, lead, mentor and develop a diverse and inclusive team of deeply engaged and influential architects that proactively define architecture runway to enable and empower our product teams to deliver experiences and capabilities that delight our advisors, end-investors, and internal system actors. As part of LPL’s overall modernization efforts, construct LPL’s strategy to accelerate cloud adoption and seamlessly connect on-premise and cloud workloads. The strategy should unlock capability and data discovery and access, drive the company toward an event-driven architecture, and evangelize infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and automated pipelines. Establish key standards and frameworks that enable product development teams to embrace and align to the architecture targets and technology choices. Contribute to establishing broader enterprise architecture principles, standards, and measurements that drive modernization as well as consistency and efficiency into the technology ecosystem. Contribute to developing the broader governance and control structure that ensures alignment to target-state and architecture principles. 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 are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related field 10+ years experience leading architecture functions and/or performing as a senior architect, particularly in large corporate ecosystems. Experience designing and implementing strategic roadmaps along with the governance mechanisms to achieve them. Hands-on experience developing architecture blueprints, systems diagrams, data models, process flows, data flows, and other key architecture deliverables. Possess experience in cloud computing and cloud native software architectures, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, Containers, Micro-services, Event Bus (esp. Kafka), and related concepts and technologies.

Core Competencies:

Ability to convey technical solutions clearly to the entire organization and experience working with senior leaders across the firm to leverage technology in the pursuit of business outcomes. Adept at defining IT vision and strategy and identification of initiatives that lead to target state architectures and outcomes. Continuous learner especially in emerging areas of technology, modern work practices and digital transformation. Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise/Lean Startup and Enterprise Agile. Demonstrate competency in innovative, strategic thinking, and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management. Sounds judgement and bias to action when balancing competing business and technological imperatives. Extensive experience working in large technology ecosystems with emphasis on integrating multiple externally facing high scale, high volume, always-on mission-critical systems.

Preferences:

A master’s degree in one of the aforementioned fields

Pay Range:

$186,525-$310,875/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!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (

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LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for advisors and institutions, and not the other way around. Today, LPL is a leader in the markets we serve, serving more than 23,000 financial advisors, including advisors at approximately 1,000 institutions and at approximately 580 registered investment advisor (“RIA”) firms nationwide. We are steadfast in our commitment to the advisor-mediated model and the belief that Americans deserve access to personalized guidance from a financial professional. 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.

Join LPL Financial:

Where Your Potential Meets Opportunity At LPL Financial, we believe that everyone deserves objective financial guidance. As the nation’s leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of cutting-edge technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services. Why LPL?

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Our Total Rewards package goes beyond just compensation and insurance. It includes a mix of traditional and unique benefits, perks, and resources designed to enhance your life both at work and at home. Learn more here! 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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Financial is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer.• Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals. To understand who we are, it’s important to know our core belief: financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best – create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities. Each year, thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets. Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. To learn more about our organization visit our About LPL page. • As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2019, based on total revenue. Want to learn more about the benefits of working at LPL? Check out the links below! We Are LPL Benefits Culture Social Responsibility