WHY ADVISOR EXPERIENCE TECHNOLOGY?

Financial Advisors are demanding personalized experiences that allow them to better serve the specific needs of their customers. Advisors expect seamless and user-friendly access to tools and information that they rely on to run their businesses and serve their investor clients. The Advisor Experience technology team is critical to delivering this vision, and we will do this by empowering our workforce to align with our strategy and making substantial investments in technology modernization. You will be part of a highly motivated engineering team that’s leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver world-class products and services to our advisor clients.

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 15 years experience developing enterprise-class technology and solutions architectures, inclusive of service-oriented or microservices architectures, event-driven architecture, data platforms, and user experience architectures.
• Minimum of 10 years experience designing and implementing strategic roadmaps along with the governance mechanisms to achieve them.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in designing and implementing a modern data architecture (e.g., data mesh) is expected.

The Distinguished Chief Architect, Advisor Experience Technology at LPL Financial will:

• Take a seat on the leadership team of the EVP/CIO who owns Advisor Experience Technology for LPL.
• Interface with key business and IT leaders for the purpose of understanding priorities and delivering modern product architecture strategies and solutions that enable the company’s vision and extraordinary growth.
• Guide a team of domain-aligned solution and data architects to maintain a coherent architectural vision for Advisor Experience Technology.
• Serve as an expert for enterprise architecture tools, technology, and standards while providing architectural and strategic consulting in the areas of external trends, best practices, and adherence to standards.
• Lead the effective application of enterprise architecture principles through a deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices.
• Be accountable for the definition and development of principles, guidelines, services, components, tools, standards, assets, and frameworks required to support LPL Financial’s architecture.
• Understand and leverage emerging technologies such as AI/ML to drive the transformation of key use cases and experiences

This Chief Architect will be a highly technical, forward, and innovative leader who possesses a solid foundation in software engineering. She/He must be able to work closely with other technology, business, and product leaders to ensure an architectural framework is in place to support the LPL Advisor Experience Technology’s mission, strategy, and growth. In addition, this leader must have experience working in a highly technical environment utilizing leading-edge tools to build architectural blueprints and frameworks encompassing legacy systems/platforms as well as emerging compute platforms.
This leader will define the architectural blueprints and best practices for mission-critical product portfolios and be responsible for leading the continuous evolution of the supporting technology platform, including strategic technology decisions, architectural upgrades, and potential integrations. Reusable assets and frameworks generated by the Distinguished Architect will be consumed throughout the enterprise and lead to key business outcomes, such as higher velocity, greater quality, increased architecture consistency, and more. This Architect should operate with a close linkage to fellow architects as well as product and business stakeholders to ensure priorities are aligned and addressed.
This Chief Architect will be a key leader in the broader Enterprise Architecture organization that directs the overall technology strategy for the enterprise. The Architect will contribute to evolving the vision, defining strategies to achieve the vision, and standards and best practices. She/He will drive common architectural standards across the entire organization that emphasize scalability, availability, security, performance, and quality.

The Distinguished Chief Architect, Advisor Experience Technology at LPL Financial will:

• Take a seat on the leadership team of the EVP/CIO who owns Advisor Experience Technology for LPL.
• Interface with key business and IT leaders for the purpose of understanding priorities and delivering modern product architecture strategies and solutions that enable the company’s vision and extraordinary growth.
• Guide a team of domain-aligned solution and data architects to maintain a coherent architectural vision for Advisor Experience Technology.
• Serve as an expert for enterprise architecture tools, technology, and standards while providing architectural and strategic consulting in the areas of external trends, best practices, and adherence to standards.
• Lead the effective application of enterprise architecture principles through a deep understanding of the architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices.
• Be accountable for the definition and development of principles, guidelines, services, components, tools, standards, assets, and frameworks required to support LPL Financial’s architecture.
• Understand and leverage emerging technologies such as AI/ML to drive the transformation of key use cases and experiences.