AVP Developer Experience Software Engineer/Technical Lead

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:

As a AVP Software Engineer, you will be a tech lead for the Developer Experience Platform Development and Self-Service automation team to drive and develop the solutioning, coding, platform management working with the team which help improve developer productivity and effectiveness. You will be working autonomously while driving collaboration, development best practices among team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive engineering technical solutions, best practices, design, and development of Cloud native solution.

• Participate in Agile Scrum, PI Planning and work with Scrum Master, RTE, Project Manager to do estimation of key deliverables and milestone management.

• Drive Code review, solution design sessions, Lunch and Learn sessions, developer community of practice, technical demos, Office hours with Developer community for knowledge share, solving and learning pain points while bringing innovative solution to the problems.

• Meet Partner teams and developer community to understand pain points.

• Manage and maintain documentation of technical requirement/Runbooks/DR Strategy/Release Management/Design document (SAS documentation) and drive onsite and offshore team to deliver defined priorities.

• Hands on application development (Web, API and Mobile), Security and vulnerabilities resolution, Coding, testing of Platform/Scaffolding/Templates.

• Work closely with engineers, Tech leads, Architecture, Security, Platform Eng, Quality Engineering, Cloud, Change & Release Management teams etc.., to architect and deliver the technical reference designs for APIs and Web while promote those practices among development communities.

• Drive innovation and automation to simplify challenges and enhance developer productivity & experiences across the enterprise.

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

• 10+ years of end-to-end Application development experience in .Net, Angular, Typescript & Python based cloud hosted web, mobile and microservice development.

• 1+ years of experience in Backstage.io (OpenSource) or similar Internal Developer Platform setup, plugin development experience using .NET, ReactJS.

• 5+ year of hands-on experience in Self Service Application, Infrastructure and Architecture one clicks template automation and orchestration Engine development Experience.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Orchestration platform (EKS, OpenShift)

• 8+ years of hands-on experience doing development and automation of AWS Cloud technologies: AWS IAM, Security Groups, API gateway, ECS Faregate, Lambda, Elastic Cache, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Elastic Search, Document DB, SQS, Event Bridge, Step Functions, terraform templates, Secret Manager, Parameter Store, Kinesis, CloudWatch, EKS, Kafka, Cognito, Docker, Istio mesh, Docker, Kubernetes and Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Groovy, AgentCORE, Neptune Database

Core Competencies:

• Developing complete solutions considering sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, security, application requirements on cloud enterprise systems.

• Experience adhering to an Agile development environment and iterative sprint cycle.

• Have a deep understanding of API design, OpenAPI specifications, GitOps, Dark Release/G deployment practices, IAC.

• Develop Unit Test cases and improve test coverage for existing codebase.

• Hands-on experience working with Code Quality and Code Coverage tools/frameworks (e.g. SonarQube, Vera Code), GitHub Actions, Android Studio Universal, AWSCLI2, ColourContrastAnalyser, Docker, Drawio, GitHubDesktop, HomeBrew, IntelliJ, iTerm, Node.js v18.12.2, Postman, PyCharmCA, Python 3.10.5, Python 3.11.3, Python 3.7, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, Deveoper_Node 14.21,  Eclipse - ARM64, .net 7.0.201, Polaris.

• AI Tooling - Github Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude hands on knowledge

• Driving Knowledge share sessions and bringing adoption of the platform

• Hands on AI development using bedrock, LangChain, LangGraph, Agent Development, System, User and Agent Authentication and Authorization integration with developer experience platform.

Preferences:

• Master’s degree in computer science

• Expertise in problem-solving, technical leadership, Developer evangelism, Leading developer community of Practices and strong troubleshooting skills and developer support skills.

• CertifiedAWS Solution Engineers /Developer/Architect

• Strong Work Ethic, Learning, growth mindset, can do attitude, strong sense of ownership, organizational skills and adaptive capacity for rapidly changing priorities and workloads.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Pay Range:

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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