AVP, Data Services - Lead Data Engineer

We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and execute in ways that encourage innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Minimum of 7 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or related technical disciplines.

- Minimum of 2 years of experience serving as a technical lead, project lead, or people leader.

- Experience developing and supporting cloud-native applications, APIs, and data platforms.

- Experience developing event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and distributed data services.

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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience).

- Strong hands-on engineering and technical problem-solving skills.

- Ability to collaborate effectively across business and technology teams.

- Experience delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality data solutions.

- Understanding of party data, reference data, client data, or regulatory data environments.

- Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and delivery execution skills.

- Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.

- Experience with Master Data Management (MDM) concepts including identity resolution, entity matching, survivorship rules, and golden record creation.

- Experience working with reference data, master data, customer data, client data, or legal entity data domains.

- Experience with AWS services including Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, Aurora/Postgres, RDS, and MSK/Kafka.

- Experience with Snowflake, Aurora/Postgres, SQL Server, or other cloud-native database platforms.

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), and DevOps practices.

- Strong SQL, data modeling, and data integration skills.

- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.

- Experience supporting data governance, metadata, data quality, and lineage initiatives.

- Financial services, wealth management, banking, brokerage, or regulatory data experience preferred.

- AWS certifications are a plus.

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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