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Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States
Hybrid
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:
Seeking a VP Cloud Delivery Architect for LPL’s Infrastructure Solutions Architecture / Engineering organization. The Cloud Delivery Architect will possess technical expertise and engineering skills in AWS, which allows them to be considered a subject matter expert and lead for designing reliable, scalable, and secure AWS technical infrastructure solutions. This individual must be able to work in a fast paced, start up like environment, identify requirements and facilitate implementation, while following appropriate change control and release processes.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with customers/project teams to understand business requirements and capture technical requirements necessary to produce an infrastructure design
Perform systems analysis and evaluations on existing application infrastructure to gain knowledge of the technologies and capabilities of the platform
Be a subject matter expert in AWS security; identity access management; users, roles, policies, permissions, etc.
Be a subject matter expert and be able to provide architectural and engineering guidance for AWS services: focusing on lambda, glue, RDS, step functions, etc.
Define and develop new cloud Reference Architectures
Participate in application roadmap planning with stakeholders, application teams and engineering groups
Contributes to policies, procedures, and standards
Collaborate with project team members as part of an agile well-formed team
Utilize Jira consistently to track work and provide project status and updates
Provide guidance and consultation on infrastructure deployments
Performs capacity workload modeling and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environments.
Recommends changes/enhancements for improved systems availability, reliability, and performance.
Promote and recommend opportunities for automation and efficiency gains
Participates in the creation and maintenance of delivery metrics
Execute on multiple efforts in parallel and proactively drive projects forward
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:
8+ years of experience of cloud architecture design
7+ years hands on experience as an AWS subject matter expert deploying applications
7+ years of experience developing architecture diagrams and documentation
7+ years of experience developing / documenting build specifications using Excel
7+ years of designing, and developing utilizing common AWS services like EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, Any RDS, Streaming (Kafka), Messaging (SQS, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis, Ignite, Redshift, Elasticache), NO-SQL and API Gateway
Core Competencies:
Hands on Infrastructure as Code deployments using Terraform
Experience utilizing AWS AMI’s with Amazon Linux and Windows Server
Experience connecting On-Prem Active Directory with AWS services
Experience with AWS Network protocols and diagnosing connection-related issues
Firewalls Rule Management, Port Translation, Quality of Service, and Network Protocol Routing
Preferences:
Bachelor’s Degree
Certifications are a plus (AWS Solutions Architect)
Network Security Best Practices and Implementation across diverse technologies and hardware infrastructure.
SSL Certificate Requests, Installation and PKI Management
Technical Project Management experience a plus
Pay Range:
$155,942.00 - $259,869.00Company 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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