VP, Lead Software Engineer

At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience - shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win - clients, LPL, and most importantly our employees.

If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what's possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

LPL Financial is seeking a visionary technology leader to drive the modernization and strategic evolution of critical Wealth Management and Brokerage platforms supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending functions. As Vice President, Lead Software Engineer, you will lead large-scale transformation initiatives, influence enterprise technology strategy, and oversee the delivery of innovative solutions across a complex and evolving technology landscape.

This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-performing engineering organization, champion AI-assisted software development practices, and shape the future of cloud-native, event-driven platforms that support key business operations. You'll collaborate with executive leaders, business partners, architects, and engineering teams to drive technology innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business outcomes.

The Vice President, Lead Software Engineer is responsible for technology strategy, architecture leadership, engineering delivery, and platform modernization across Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending platforms. This role provides leadership across more than 20 application teams and partners closely with Product, Operations, Architecture, Security, Data, Infrastructure, Compliance, and senior leadership stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that support enterprise priorities.

• Define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, and Securities Lending platforms.

• Lead modernization initiatives transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native, API-first, service-oriented, and event-driven architectures.

• Establish architecture and engineering standards focused on scalability, resiliency, security, observability, and operational excellence.

• Drive adoption of modern technologies including .NET, Angular, AWS, Kafka, microservices, enterprise integration patterns, and data platforms.

• Champion AI-assisted software engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, automation, and production support.

• Lead delivery of enterprise applications, advisor-facing solutions, APIs, cloud platforms, and strategic integrations.

• Partner with senior business leaders, product management, operations teams, architects, and external vendors to align technology investments with business objectives.

• Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, vendor assessments, and modernization initiatives involving both vendor and internally developed platforms.

• Establish and oversee engineering excellence practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, reliability engineering, security, and observability.

• Monitor and drive engineering performance through key operational, delivery, reliability, quality, and productivity metrics.

• Provide leadership, coaching, talent development, succession planning, and organizational growth across distributed engineering teams.

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and client-focused delivery.

What Are We Looking For?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including progressive leadership responsibility within enterprise technology organizations.

• Experience leading large-scale modernization, digital transformation, and enterprise technology delivery programs.

• Demonstrated expertise in cloud technologies, distributed systems, API and microservices architecture, DevSecOps practices, and modern software engineering methodologies.

• Experience leading large engineering organizations, cross-functional teams, and strategic technology initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and vendor partners.

• Experience communicating technology strategy, delivery plans, and business outcomes to executive leadership and senior stakeholders.

• Technology strategy and enterprise architecture leadership.

• Organizational leadership, coaching, talent development, and succession planning.

• Executive communication, stakeholder management, and strategic influence.

• Enterprise software engineering, modernization, and platform transformation.

• AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity enablement.

• Operational excellence, risk management, and delivery governance.

• Vendor partnership management and enterprise program leadership.

• Experience supporting Corporate Actions, Class Actions, Securities Lending, Wealth Management, Brokerage Operations, Banking, or Capital Markets platforms.

• Experience implementing AI-enabled engineering practices, generative AI solutions, or agentic development frameworks.

• Experience leading multi-million-dollar technology modernization programs and enterprise transformation initiatives.

• Expertise with .NET/C#, Angular, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design principles.

• Familiarity with DORA metrics, engineering performance measurement, and large-scale DevSecOps implementation.

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!

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 .

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