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When you lead with intention-through influence, expertise, and integrity-you help transform not just platforms, but experiences for advisors and clients nationwide. If you’re ready to lead at scale and drive meaningful transformation, LPL Financial invites you to apply.\nAre you passionate about modernizing legacy systems and building cloud-native platforms that power critical financial processes? Do you thrive at the intersection of data engineering, architecture, and business transformation? Join LPL Financial’s Compensation Transformation Program and play a pivotal role in redefining how compensation is calculated, validated, and delivered across the enterprise.\nJob Overview\nLPL Financial is seeking a VP, Principal Engineer / Tech Lead to design and deliver modern, cloud-based data and application capabilities that transform enterprise compensation processing. In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across data pipelines, event-driven workflows, and cloud architecture-ensuring scalability, resiliency, transparency, and automation.\nYou will partner closely with architects, product teams, compensation subject-matter experts, and engineering teams to modernize end-to-end compensation systems using AWS-native services and Python-driven data pipelines.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and implement end-to-end cloud data pipelines supporting compensation ingestion, calculation, validation, and downstream distribution\n\nBuild and maintain ETL/ELT workflows using Python, AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and S3\n\nArchitect and develop event-driven workflows leveraging AWS EventBridge, SQS, and SNS\n\nImplement data quality, reconciliation, auditing, and monitoring capabilities to ensure accuracy and integrity of compensation data\n\nPartner with architects and product teams to modernize legacy compensation platforms into scalable, cloud-native solutions\n\nWork with relational databases (RDS/Postgres/SQL Server) for data modeling, transformation, and performance optimization\n\nApply CI/CD and DevOps best practices to automate build, test, and deployment processes\n\nTroubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause resolution under tight timelines\n\nCommunicate technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders, compensation SMEs, and cross-functional partners\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve transparency, scalability, and automation across compensation workflows\n\nWhat Are We Looking For?\nWe’re looking for a collaborative, technically strong leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys transforming complex, rules-driven systems. You bring a deep sense of ownership, a passion for cloud and data engineering, and a commitment to delivering high-quality, resilient solutions that support LPL’s advisor-centered mission.\nRequirements\n10+ years of experience designing and delivering complex enterprise systems\n\n7+ years of hands-on data engineering experience using Python and SQL\n\nExperience with AWS services including Glue, Lambda, EventBridge, RDS, and S3\n\nAbility to design scalable, event-driven and cloud-native architectures\n\nExperience with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern software engineering standards\n\nCore Competencies\nCloud and data architecture leadership\n\nSystems thinking and problem solving\n\nCross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication\n\nTechnical mentorship and influence\n\nContinuous improvement mindset\n\nPreferences\nExperience with .NET, C#, JavaScript, Angular, or API development\n\nExperience with Snowflake or modern cloud data warehouses\n\nBackground in compensation, payroll, financial calculations, or rules-driven systems\n\nFamiliarity with Jira, TeamCity, or Octopus Deploy\n\nPlease note: This position does not offer work authorization sponsorship now or in the future. Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization that does not require employer sponsorship.\nPay Range:\n$175,924.00 - $293,138.00Actual 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!Company Overview:\nLPL 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.\nAt 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.\nFor further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.\nJoin 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.\nInformation on Interviews:\nLPL 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. 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