VP, Platform Engineering – Database

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for SQL Server environment
• Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
• Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
• Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack)
• Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
• Provide Tier 2,3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
• Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of data solution architecture, design, development and platform engineering experience, SQL Server expert
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience working within large, global financial institutions
• Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting/deploying highly scalable data solutions to the cloud
• 5+ years experience architecting modern data integration frameworks, data modeling, ETL/ELT workflows, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns
• 5+ years experience and proven track record leading migration of data platforms to new data centers and/or AWS

Core Competencies

• Proven expertise in database platforms (SQL Server/Always On, ORACLE/RAC, PostgreSQL), AWS RDS, Dynamo DB
• Proven expertise in cloud data services such as OLTP, ODS, data lake and analytics platforms
• Proven expertise in data warehousing, big data and analytics platforms (RedShift, EMR, Dataiku, Tableau, Presto)
• Proven track record developing, communicating and executing multi-year technology strategy and roadmaps
• Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile project Delivery
• Extensive experience utilizing management configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CF) to manage data platforms at scale
• Highly collaborative with experience in leading and influencing teams
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the regulatory, security, privacy and risk safeguards required of a global financial institution

Preferences

• AWS LZ, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, RedShift, RDS, Snowflake, ECS, EKS, RDS, Transit Gateway, Storage Gateway, Glacier, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Jira, Terraform, GridGain Cache, FiveTran HVRCI/CD (GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, JSON, YAML)
• Agile Methodologies: Scrum/Kanban
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong executive presence

Pay Range

$155,300.00 - $258,800.00

Benefits

LPL offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 401(k) matching
• Health benefits
• Employee stock options
• Paid time off
• Volunteer time off

About LPL

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.