LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) was founded on the principle that the firm should work for the advisor, and not the other way around. LPL Financial is one of the nation's leading financial services companies and a publicly traded company under the ticker symbol LPLA.

LPL is a fast-growing, fortune 500 company with 7000+ employees. We support over 50,000 financial professionals-including over 20,000 independent advisor teams, more than 800 financial institutions, and over 4,000 institutional clearing and technology subscribers managing over USD 1.2 trillion in assets.At LPL, independence means that advisors have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run their perfect practice.

And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.Job Overview:The SVP Enterprise Architect will drive the enterprise architecture strategy across the organization.

The SVP & CIO of Technology Modernization & Enterprise Architecture are the key senior leaders charged with designing and stewarding LPL Financials technology and business systems strategies. This individual ensures that the business strategy, along with relevant industry trends and regulatory standards, is expressed in and enabled by enterprise processes and systems. As the senior executive responsible for enterprise architecture, this position defines the principles that guide technology and internal business operations decisions for the enterprise.

This role brings a unique perspective to LPL Financials strategy development, identifies the enterprise implications for transformation efforts, and leads the approach to enacting change across both technical and business systems.The SVP leads a team of architects and supporting roles (to include enterprise, cloud, data, integration, infrastructure, and solutions architecture) who own the company's technology strategy and target-state architecture definition. As a key enabler and driver of innovation, this role is expected to bring unique insights, creative solutions, and industry-leading practices to advance the mission of LPL Financial.

Year one expectationsBuild the architecture organization from its current state to a fully formed practice and team capable of defining the overall modernization strategy and supporting the company's ongoing roadmap delivery.Develop the overall Technology Strategy and elaborate how cloud, data, APIs, and DevSecOps will enable the company's extraordinary company growth projections and digital experiences vision.Establish architecture principles, standards, and measurements that drive consistency and efficiency into the technology ecosystem.

Establish the appropriate governance and control structure that ensures alignment to target-state.Develop relationships with business and technology leadership and teams and establish feedback loops that enable the Architecture organization's continuous improvement.Responsibilities:The new SVP Enterprise Architect will be a highly technical, forward-looking, and innovative leader who possesses a solid foundation in software engineering.

She/He must be able to work closely with the technology, business, and product leadership team to ensure an architectural framework is in place to support the Company's mission, strategy, and growth. In addition, this executive must have experience working in a highly technical environment utilizing leading-edge tools to build an architectural blueprint and framework encompassing legacy systems/platforms as well as emerging computing platforms.This leader will define the architectural blueprint and best practices across the organization and be responsible for leading the continuous evolution of the technology platform including strategic technology decisions, architectural upgrades, and potential integrations.

The Enterprise Architect should operate with close linkage to business stakeholders to ensure priorities are aligned and addressed.This leader will lead an organization of 20-30 resources to direct the overall technology strategy for the enterprise and evolve the vision to the next level, defining architectural blueprints, standards, and best practices. The organization will be composed of people leaders and senior-level architects.

She/He should deploy platform architecture as well as drive common architectural standards across the entire organization that emphasize scalability, availability, security, and quality.The SVP, Enterprise Architect at LPL Financial will:Interface with key business and IT leaders to set strategic direction for the Enterprise Architecture.Serve as the expert for enterprise architecture tools and technology and provide architectural and strategic consulting in the areas of external trends, best practices, and adherence to standards.

Develop, implement, and govern the guidelines for interactions across systems and business capabilities, defining relationships and outlining the principles for design and evolution.Research, develop, and implement innovative solutions across the architecture models to enable strategic objectives.Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision-making for the enterprise.

Be accountable for the definition and development of principles, guidelines, services, components, tools, standards, assets, and frameworks required to support LPL Financial's architecture.Technical Requirements:Possess extensive experience and skills in cloud computing and cloud native software architectures and patterns.Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise/Lean Startup and Enterprise Agile.

Possess in-depth knowledge of SOA principles and frameworks as well as event streaming and messaging technology and patterns.Experience implementing architecture governance and strategic roadmaps at the enterprise level.Hands-on experience developing architecture blueprints, systems diagrams, data models, process flows, data flows and other key enterprise architecture deliverables.

Ability to convey technical solutions clearly to the entire organization.Experience driving the digital transformation of an IT portfolio, moving enterprise workloads to the cloud, driving DevOps and Agile tools, methodologies, and culture in the enterprise IT environment at scale.Experience developing and deploying IT change programs with detailed business case development and delivery at the board or global business unit level.

Extensive background and experience in advanced software development techniques.Broad experience in infrastructure architecture, design, implementation, and operations.Core Competencies:Demonstrate competency in innovative, strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in relationship management.

Possess experience in process analysis, design, and documentation to drive increased rigor in Enterprise Architecture management.Deep experience in working with senior leaders across the firm to exploit technology in the pursuit of business outcomes.Experience in leading large, complex organizations comprised of senior architects and engineers.

Track record of successfully working on complicated initiatives encased in ambiguity and uncertainty.Adept at defining IT vision and strategy and identification of initiatives that lead to target state architectures and outcomes.Preferences:A master's degree in one of the aforementioned fields is preferred?Pay Range: $190,320-$285,480/yearActual 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!Why LPL? At LPL, we believe that objective financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. As the nation's leading independent broker-dealer, we offer an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisor services.

We provide you with a work environment that encourages your creativity and growth, a leadership team that is supportive and responsive, and the opportunity to create a career that has no limits, only amazing potential.We are one team on one mission. We take care of our advisors, so they can take care of their clients.

Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. We are committed to supporting workplace equality, and we embrace the different perspectives and backgrounds of our employees.We also care for our communities, and we encourage our employees to do the same.

This creates an environment in which you can do your best work.Want to hear from our employees on what it's like to work at LPL? Watch this!We take social responsibility seriously. Learn more hereWant to see info on our benefits? Learn more hereJoin 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.SummaryLocation: Fort Mill/Charlotte; San Diego; Austin, TXType: Full time.